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Acoustic Tweezers Provide Much Needed Pluck for 3-D Bioprinting
Tony Jun Huang | Via Carnegie Mellon | January 25, 2016Monday, January 25, 2016-Researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and collaborators Tony Jun Huang from the Pennsylvania State University and Ming Dao from MIT, have demonstrated that acoustic tweezers can be used to non-invasively move and manipulate single cells along three dimensions, providing a promising new method for 3-D bioprinting. Their findings are […]
Using MRI to Assess Myelin Health
Mark Does | Via Vanderbilt | January 25, 2016The brain is comprised of gray and white matter, made of neurons with axon projections. In mainly white matter, myelin wraps to form a sheath around axon fibers. This accelerates nerve signals by electrically insulating the axon. Many white matter diseases involve loss of myelin, which makes diagnosing the health of myelin clinically very important. […]
Bioengineering Pioneer Colin Caro at 90
Colin Caro | Via Imperial College | January 25, 2016At the age of 90, serial medical innovator Emeritus Professor Colin Caro remains active in research and teaching after 50 years at Imperial. Multidisciplinary collaboration is a hot topic in academia and research at the moment – but it has been a focus of Emeritus Professor Colin Caro for more than 50 years. Born in […]
Peppas Receives Courtesy Appointment in Dell Medical School
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas at Austin | January 25, 2016Nicholas Peppas, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and director of the Institute of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine, has received a courtesy appointment in the Dell Medical School’s Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care. In this role he will facilitate collaborative research between biomedical engineers and physicians to solve medical challenges. “Dr. […]
4D-Printed Structure Changes Shape When Placed In Water
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard | January 25, 2016A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth dimension, time. Inspired by natural structures like plants, which respond and change their form in response to […]
Potential Diabetes Treatment Advances
Robert Langer | Via Harvard | January 25, 2016Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and several other institutions, have developed an implantable device that in mice shielded insulin-producing beta cells from immune system attack for six months — a substantial proportion of life span. This bioengineering work […]
Herzenberg Appointed To Endowed Professorship
Leonore Herzenberg | Via Stanford | January 21, 2016Leonore Herzenberg, D.Sc.-equivalent, was named the Department of Genetics Flow Cytometry Professor, effective April 14, 2015. Her research focuses on gene regulation in the immune system, development and function of B cells, and the development of automated software for analyzing research and clinical flow cytometry data collected with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter, or FACS. This […]
Nicholas L. Abbott, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Nicholas Abbott | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Nicholas L. Abbott, Ph.D., John T. Sobota and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor and Hilldale Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Abbott was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
Elfar Adalsteinsson, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Elfar Adalsteinsson | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Elfar Adalsteinsson, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, […]
Sunil K. Agrawal, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Sunil Agrawal | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Sunil K. Agrawal, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Agrawal was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of […]
Eben Alsberg, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Eben Alsberg | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Eben Alsberg, Ph.D., Full Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedic Surgery, General Medical Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Alsberg was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]
Sneh Anand, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Sneh Anand | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Sneh Anand, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Anand was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For pioneering inventions […]
Mark A. Anastasio, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Mark Anastasio | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Mark A. Anastasio, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Anastasio was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to the […]
Scott Banta, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Scott Banta | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Scott Banta, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Banta was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For significant contributions in […]
Joan E. Bechtold, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Joan Bechtold | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Joan E. Bechtold, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Bechtold was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions in research […]
Bonnie Berger, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Bonnie Berger | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Bonnie Berger, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science at MIT, and head of the Computation and Biology group, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Berger was nominated, reviewed, and elected by […]
Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Rohit Bhargava | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D., Professor and Bliss Faculty Scholar, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Bhargava was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For pioneering the […]
Kristen L. Billiar, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kristen Billiar | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kristen L. Billiar, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Billiar was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College […]
Bharat B. Biswal, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Bharat Biswal | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Bharat B. Biswal, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Biswal was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of […]
Barbara E. Blum, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Barbara Blum | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Barbara E. Blum, Ph.D., Sr. Project Engineer II, Biologics Development group, Wright Medical, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Blum was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For leadership in the […]