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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 […]
Former Rose-Hulman President Dies
Samuel Hulbert | Via Inside Indiana Business | February 1, 2016Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is mourning the death of former president Samuel Hulbert. Hulbert served as president from 1976 to 2004, the longest tenure of any president at the school. He was 79. The institute says at the time of his retirement in 2004, Hulbert had presented diplomas to 70 percent of Rose-Hulman’s living alumni. Hulbert […]
Plants With Biosensors May Light The Way
George Church | Via Harvard | February 1, 2016Plants engineered with a specific biosensor can signal when they detect a molecule of interest, such as the human hormone progesterone or the drug digoxin, according to a team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Synthetically engineered biosensors, which can be designed to detect and signal the presence of specific […]
Donald Gaver named AAAS Fellow
Donald Gaver | Via Tulane | January 29, 2016Donald Gaver, chair of biomedical engineering at Tulane University, has been named a 2015 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Gaver is among 347 scientists being recognized this year for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. He is being […]
Duke Names Ravi Bellamkonda Engineering Dean
Ravi Bellamkonda | Via Duke Today | January 26, 2016Ravi Bellamkonda, a renowned biomedical engineer who has led one of the top-ranked departments in the country, will be the new Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, President Richard H. Brodhead and Provost Sally Kornbluth announced Tuesday. Bellamkonda is the Wallace H. Coulter Professor and chair of the Wallace H. […]
Mechanical Stimulation Shown To Repair Muscle
David Mooney | Via Harvard | January 26, 2016Muscle regeneration through mechanical stimulation may one day replace or enhance drug- and cell-based regenerative treatments, according to a new study by a team of engineers and biomedical 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). The study […]
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 […]