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Precision Medicine For Understudied Populations
Russ Altman | Via TEDMED | March 2, 2016Precision medicine, which leverages a patient’s genetics to help make medical decisions, has the potential to revolutionize medicine. Its applications are numerous: from predicting who may have an adverse reaction to a medication, to allowing targeted therapies of cancer with particular mutations. In 2015, President Obama’s State of the Union announced an initiative to further […]
In Memoriam: USC Trustee, Entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann, 90
Alfred Mann | Via U. Southern California | February 26, 2016USC Life Trustee Alfred E. Mann, a world-renowned humanitarian and entrepreneur who founded 17 companies in the aerospace and biomedical technology industries, died Feb. 25. He was 90.Throughout his distinguished career, Mann dedicated himself to developing technologies that dramatically improve patients’ lives. His companies produced and marketed products such as pacemakers, cochlear implants and retinal […]
Panos Pardalos to be inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Panos Pardalos | Via U. Florida | February 24, 2016Panos Pardalos, a Genetics Institute faculty member, has been chosen by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for induction into its College of Fellows. Pardalos, distinguished professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is a Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also serves as director for […]
Sinister Shock: ONR Researcher Studies How Explosive Shock Waves Harm the Brain
Michael Cho | Via Office of Naval Research | February 23, 2016Today’s warfighters are outfitted with body armor strong enough to withstand shrapnel from a bomb or other explosive device. One debilitating threat from a blast, however, is a force they can’t see—the explosive shock wave itself. “Shock waves travel faster than the speed of sound,” said Dr. Timothy Bentley, a program manager in the Office […]
Lab-Grown Heart Cells To Improve Drug Safety
Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | February 22, 2016Under a microscope at U of T Engineering, heart cells are pulsing together in a petri dish. For Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) and her team, it’s just another day in the lab. Although they are grown outside the body, the human tissues engineered in Radisic’s lab look and behave just like the real thing. […]
Not Every Drop of a Person’s Blood Is the Same, a Study Says
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via New York Times | February 22, 2016As diagnostic tests rely on ever-tinier amounts of blood, some scientists are striking a note of caution. As it turns out, not all drops of blood are identical. Bioengineers at Rice University recently found that different drops from single fingerpricks on multiple subjects varied substantially on results for basic health measures like hemoglobin, white blood […]
Dobson’s paper highlighted in Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Jon Dobson | Via U. Florida | February 19, 2016Two professors in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Engineering’s work has been highlighted in Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). The goal of TBME is to publish original contributions in any area of biomedical engineering that report novel engineering methods with demonstrated biomedical significance. Congratulations to Jon Dobson, professor of biomedical engineering and Kyle […]
New Image Analytics May Offer Quick Guidance For Breast Cancer Treatment
Anant Madabhushi | Via Case THINK | February 18, 2016CLEVELAND—For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to reliably distinguish between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also need chemotherapy, researchers from Case Western Reserve University report. The analysis may provide women diagnosed with estrogen positive-receptor (ER-positive) […]
TAXI Peptide Shuttles Protein Cargo Into Spinal Cord
Suzie Pun | Via U. Washington | February 17, 2016Researchers have long sought to develop effective biologic drugs, such as peptides, proteins and nucleic acids, for treating motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gerhrig’s disease. However, efforts to develop therapies for these diseases are complicated by the difficulty of bypassing the blood brain barrier. This selectively permeable […]
Scott Delp elected to National Academy of Engineering
Scott Delp | Via Stanford | February 16, 2016Biochemist Peter Kim and bioengineer Scott Delp have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Delp was honored for his computer simulations of human movement and their applications to the treatment of clinical movement pathologies. Delp and his team have developed open-source software called OpenSim that allows scientists to create and analyze simulations of […]
Simon Cherry Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Simon Cherry | Via UC Davis | February 9, 2016Simon Cherry, a Distinguished Professor in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), and co-leader of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Biomedical Program, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Cherry is being acknowledged for research that has put UC Davis on the leading edge of molecular imaging nationwide. He is […]
Robotically Driven System Could Reduce Cost of Drug Discovery
Robert Murphy | Via Carnegie Mellon | February 9, 2016Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have created the first robotically driven experimentation system to determine the effects of a large number of drugs on many proteins, reducing the number of necessary experiments by 70 percent. The model, presented in the journal eLife, uses an approach that could lead to accurate predictions of the interactions between […]
West Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Jennifer West | Via Duke | February 8, 2016Jennifer West, the Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering at Duke University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)—one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers. West was cited “For developments in photothermal and theranostic therapies and bioabsorbed scaffolds for tissue regeneration.” “Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the […]
Hawkins Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
William Hawkins | Via Duke | February 8, 2016Among the 80 new members announced by the NAE today are Kristina Johnson, former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, and William A. Hawkins III, a Duke engineering alumnus, former member of the Pratt Board of Visitors and current member of the Duke University Board of Trustees. William A. Hawkins III graduated from Duke […]
Professor Elected as Foreign Members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | February 8, 2016University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton (Computer Science) of the Faculty of Arts & Science have both been elected as Foreign Members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Founded in 1964, the NAE provides engineering leadership in service to […]
Engineers 3D-print a New Lifelike Liver Tissue for Drug Screening
Shaochen Chen | Via UC Davis | February 8, 2016A team led by engineers at the University of California, San Diego has 3D-printed a tissue that closely mimics the human liver’s sophisticated structure and function. The new model could be used for patient-specific drug screening and disease modeling. The work was published the week of Feb. 8 in the online early edition of Proceedings […]
Engineers 3D-print a New Lifelike Liver Tissue for Drug Screening
Shu Chien | Via UC Davis | February 8, 2016A team led by engineers at the University of California, San Diego has 3D-printed a tissue that closely mimics the human liver’s sophisticated structure and function. The new model could be used for patient-specific drug screening and disease modeling. The work was published the week of Feb. 8 in the online early edition of Proceedings […]
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Awarded to K. Kirk Shung
K. Kirk Shung | Via IEEE | February 5, 2016A world-renowned leader of biomedical ultrasound technology, K. Kirk Shung’s pioneering discoveries have contributed significantly to the health and welfare of society. His early work involving the interaction of ultrasound and blood has set the standard for research activities and the development of diagnostic ultrasound equipment. His study led to a thorough understanding of the […]
Ding Appointed Associate Editor of The Journal Of Neuroscience
Mingzhou Ding | Via U. Florida | February 4, 2016Mingzhou Ding, Pruitt Family Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been invited to join the editorial board of The Journal of Neuroscience as an associate editor. Dr. Ding was selected by the senior and reviewing editors of the journal based on his expertise and history of reviews. As an associate […]
Shuler Delivers 2016 Distinguished J.D. Lindsay Lecture
Michael Shuler | Via Texas A&M | February 2, 2016Dr. Michael Louis Shuler, a leading authority on modern biochemical engineering, delivered the spring’s first Distinguished Lindsay Lecture at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Shuler, the James M. and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Samule B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, joined the list […]