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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 […]
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 […]