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Fellowbook News

AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.

 

 

S. Kevin Zhou, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

S. Kevin Zhou | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of S. Kevin Zhou, Ph.D., Principal Key Expert, Medical Imaging Technologies, Siemens Healthcare Technology, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhou was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to […]

Brain Waves May Be Spread By Weak Electrical Field

Dominique Durand | Via Science Daily | January 14, 2016

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University may have found a new way information is communicated throughout the brain. Their discovery could lead to identifying possible new targets to investigate brain waves associated with memory and epilepsy and better understand healthy physiology. They recorded neural spikes traveling at a speed too slow for known mechanisms to […]

Prime Minister Backs Regenerative Medicine Research at U of T Engineering

Peter Zandstra | Via U. Toronto | January 14, 2016

Regenerative medicine is the way of the future for Canadian health care, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, and two new initiatives are helping strengthen the commitment of U of T Engineering and its partners to stem cell research and manufacturing.Trudeau announced at the MaRS Discovery District on Jan. 13 that the federal government will give […]

Elisa Konofagou’s New DARPA Grant Advances Work in Focused Ultrasound

Elisa Konofagou | Via Columbia | January 14, 2016

Our bodies maintain a state of equilibrium, or homeostasis, through our peripheral nervous system, through neural reflexes that modulate the function of organ systems such as the heart, stomach, intestines, or bladder. For instance, the vagus nerve linking the brain to the heart can stimulate the heart when an anxiety stimulus is experienced or can […]

Hall Lecture: Global Health Care Inequities Need Engineering Ingenuity

Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Vanderbilt | January 13, 2016

New approaches to engineering design are needed to solve inequities in global health care, according to a widely-acclaimed bioengineer who tackles neonatal health and cancer mortality in low-resource settings in the United States and Africa. Rebecca Richards-Kortum will deliver the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Monday, Jan. […]

Professor Michael Sefton Awarded The Terumo Global Science Prize

Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | January 12, 2016

University of Toronto engineering professor Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) has been named the 2016 recipient of the Terumo Global Science Prize for his achievements in tissue engineering and novel biomaterials discovery. This is only the third time the Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts has awarded the prize. Sefton joins an elite list of […]

SWHR Announces Urology Network Chair

Margot Damaser | Via SWHR | January 12, 2016

The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR®) has selected two chairs to head its Interdisciplinary Network on Urological Health In Women. Please join SWHR in congratulating Dr. Margot Damaser, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and Dr. Elizabeth Mueller, MD, MSME, Division and […]

New Book Highlights Video Bioinformatics

Bir Bhanu | Via UC Riverside | January 11, 2016

Video bioinformatics, which enables the intelligent analysis of live imaging data at varying spatial and temporal resolutions, provides an understanding of the dynamic and continuous nature of biological processes. It promises to be an important research tool to address challenges in many areas of life and computational sciences. The first book to review this emerging […]

Prestigious Robotics Journal To Be Led By Imperial Researcher

Guang-Zhong Yang | Via Imperial College London | January 8, 2016

Imperial’s Professor Guang-Zhong Yang has been appointed Editor of Science Robotics, the latest offering from Science publisher, AAAS. The journal, which launches this year, will publish cutting-edge research into robotics. Professor Yang is Director of the Hamlyn Centre, where he develops innovative medical technology using cutting-edge robotics, imaging and sensing. His team’s discoveries have enabled […]

Guiseppi-Eli Named IEEE Fellow

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M | January 7, 2016

Six current faculty members of Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering have been named Fellows of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Those receiving the prestigious honor include: Dr. Timothy Davis (computer science and engineering); Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie (biomedical engineering); Dr. Jiang Hu (electrical and computer engineering); Dr. Peng Li (electrical […]

B Wayne Bequette Named a Fellow of IEEE

Wayne Bequette | Via IEEE | January 6, 2016

Each year the IEEE designates as Fellows  individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession. The CSS has two standing committees, with non-overlapping membership, that participate in the Fellow selection process. The chairs of these two committees, who must be IEEE Fellows and CSS members, are appointed by the BoG […]

From Ambitions To Markets: Richard Kitney And More Synthetic Bio Views

Richard Kitney | Via Xconomy | January 6, 2016

Last week, Xconomy ran the first part of my conversation with Richard Kitney, a bioengineering professor at Imperial College London and a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology. We met in his campus office in November. Kitney has coauthored hundreds of papers and helped galvanize U.K. government support for synthetic biology. He is also […]

Closer To Detecting When And Why Blood Clots Form

Donald Ingber | Via Harvard | January 6, 2016

Scientists at the Wyss Institute have created a better assay for testing blood’s clotting tendency, which could prove to be a lifesaver for patients with abnormal blood coagulation and platelet function. As reported in today’s Nature Communications, this bioinspired advance by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University takes a biophysical approach […]

UTA Bioengineering Chair Wins $1.24M Grant To Research Brain Injuries In Veterans

Michael Cho | Via CBS Local | January 6, 2016

University of Texas at Arlington Bio Engineering Chair, Dr. Michael Cho is leading research efforts on the forefront of understanding brain injuries in hundreds of thousands of military veterans. It’s all thanks to a $1.24 million dollar grant recently awarded by the office of Naval Research. The specific injuries he is looking into are caused […]

Cartilage micromechanics

Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | January 4, 2016

Research shows that tiny non-fibrous regions within fibrous tissue affect behavior Injury and degeneration of fibro-cartilaginous tissues, such as the knee meniscus and the intervertebral disc, have significant socioeconomic and quality-of-life costs. But the development of effective treatment strategies to address pathologies in these load-bearing tissues has been hindered by a lack of understanding of […]

Artificial Pancreas System Aimed At Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Francis Doyle | Via Harvard | January 4, 2016

Researchers will soon undertake one of the largest-ever long-term clinical trials of a system designed to help regulate blood sugar levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus. If the scientists’ so-called artificial pancreas system performs in patients as they hope, it could lead to commercial trials and eventual regulatory approval in the United States […]

Schmidt Co-Authors Manuscript Highlighted On Macromolecular Rapid Communications Cover

Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | January 4, 2016

Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, is a co-author of a manuscript highlighted as one of the cover features for a recent issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Impact Factor = 4.941) is a well-known biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal from Wiley-VCH covering the field of polymer science.  Schmidt’s co-authors include […]

Synthetic Biology Primer: In Conversation With Richard Kitney

Richard Kitney | Via Xconomy | December 31, 2015

“Synthetic biology” has always been a puzzling term to me. Prosthetic limbs are synthetic. Knee replacements are synthetic. Splicing the gene from one organism into another, a practice that began in the 1970s and gave rise to the biotechnology industry, is also a synthetic act. But those things are not “synthetic biology” in the way […]

Humans Aren’t Alone In Our Ear For Pitch

Xiaoqin Wang | Via Hopins HUB | December 30, 2015

Humans apparently aren’t alone in the ways we perceive pitch. A new Johns Hopkins study finds evidence that marmoset monkeys share distinct features with humans in the way they distinguish between high and low notes. The research sheds light on the evolution of vocal communication and song, suggesting that aspects of pitch perception might have […]

CWRU Professor To Build Much Desired Chemical Imager

Ozan Akkus | Via THINK Case | December 28, 2015

CLEVELAND—Before Case Western Reserve University Professor Ozan Akkus applied for federal funding to build a souped-up version of a chemical analyzer, 11 fellow professors from various disciplines, as well as an art conservation group at the Cleveland Museum of Art, signed on in support, wanting to use the new device. Akkus, a professor of mechanical […]