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In Hartford, an Ambitious Goal to Regenerate Lost Limbs in Humans
Cato Laurencin | Via WNPR | November 13, 2015A group of doctors, scientists, and engineers announced an ambitious new medical goal this week in Hartford: they’ll attempt to re-generate a human knee and a human limb. Cato Laurencin is engineer and a surgeon at UConn Health and he said bioengineering needs more grand challenges. “Think about going to the moon — that project […]
Molly Shoichet Receives National Fleming Medal For Outstanding Scientific Outreach
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | November 12, 2015University of Toronto engineering professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) has received the 2015 Fleming Medal and Citation from the Royal Canadian Institute in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science. Shoichet joins the prestigious ranks of other distinguished recipients, including environmental activist David Suzuki, U of T chemistry professor and Nobel […]
Founding Chair of UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering Receives Prestigious Franklin Award
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | November 12, 2015Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 2015 – Shu Chien, founding chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, where is he currently a professor and director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, has received the prestigious Franklin Institute Award. The award is conferred by the Philadelphia-based Franklin Institute. It has gone in previous […]
Flipping The Switch To Better See Cancer Cells At Depths
Lihong Wang | Via Washington U. in St. Louis | November 9, 2015Using a high-tech imaging method, a team of biomedical engineers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis was able to see early-developing cancer cells deeper in tissue than ever before with the help of a novel protein from a bacterium. Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished […]
Jonathan Dordick Recognized by American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Jonathan Dordick | Via RPI | November 9, 2015The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced that Vice President for Research Jonathan Dordick will receive the 2015 Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award in Chemical Engineering. This national award recognizes an individual’s outstanding chemical engineering contribution in the food, pharmaceutical, and/or bioengineering field, which are of fundamental nature or of practical significance […]
Fueling Innovation by Connecting Dots Between Health, Medicine and Technology
Russ Altman | Via TEDMED | November 9, 2015Increasingly, innovation sparks from creative connections across disciplines. Drawing from deep expertise in several branches of science, some of our TEDMED speakers employ their own interdisciplinary knowledge to create breakthrough technology that is advancing healthcare and our understanding of human potential. Russ Altman, professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine and computer science at Stanford, uses machine […]
Fueling Innovation by Connecting Dots Between Health, Medicine and Technology
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via TEDMED | November 9, 2015Increasingly, innovation sparks from creative connections across disciplines. Drawing from deep expertise in several branches of science, some of our TEDMED speakers employ their own interdisciplinary knowledge to create breakthrough technology that is advancing healthcare and our understanding of human potential. Also innovating at the nexus of technology and medicine is Sangeeta Bhatia, cancer researcher, […]
Fisher Named Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering
John Fisher | Via U. Maryland | November 4, 2015Professor John P. Fisher has been selected as the next chair of the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE), effective Jan. 4, 2016. “Dr. Fisher’s rapid ascension in academic rank parallels his many outstanding achievements in both teaching and research,” said Darryll Pines, Farvardin Professor and Dean of the A. […]
Penn Lab Promises A New Frontier In Cardiac Repair
Jason Burdick | Via Flying Kite | November 3, 2015For patients who suffer heart attacks, the resulting damage to the organ can eventually lead to heart failure. Now a University of Pennsylvania lab is investigating the use of injectable biomaterials that show promise as a new frontier in cardiac repair. Speaking at the University City Science Center’s Quorum, Dr. Jason Burdick, a Penn […]
Regenerative Medicine Conference Puts Spotlight nn U of T Engineers
Peter Zandstra | Via U. Toronto | November 2, 2015If you or someone you know has benefited from a bone marrow transplant, then you may be more knowledgeable about stem cells and regenerative medicine (RM) than you think. Bone marrow transplants, a procedure used in treating cancer that has been around for the last 40 years, is just one of the applications of stem […]
Health Sciences, Technology Expert Edelman Set for Discovery Lecture
Elazer Edelman | Via Vanderbilt | October 29, 2015Elazer Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the application of engineering and physical sciences to understand fundamental biological processes and the mechanisms of disease, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 5. Edelman is the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of […]
Tooth Fairy-Dust: Adding Tiny Gems May Make Root-Canal Treatment More Effective
Dean Ho | Via Economist | October 29, 2015TIME was when the preferred material for filling superficial dental cavities was gold. Often, it still is, although cheaper materials are frequently used instead. But, for the deepest sort of filling, root-canal treatment, another substance familiar from the jeweller’s shop is about to join the dentists’ armamentarium—diamond. Root-canal fillings reach, as their name suggests, right […]
Dr. Laurencin Elected to India National Academy of Sciences
Cato Laurencin | Via U. Conn Today | October 28, 2015Cato T. Laurencin has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in India. He is one of only two 2015 Foreign Fellows elected, and the first from the University of Connecticut and UConn Health. Laurencin was honored by India’s National Academy of Sciences “for his pioneering work in the field of […]
Blood Clot Breakthrough Uses Drug-Device Combo
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard Gazette | October 28, 2015A new, highly effective drug-device combination for treating life-threatening blood clots in stroke patients is being developed by a team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and the University of Massachusetts’ New England Center for Stroke Research. The study, which will appear in the December issue of the journal Stroke, describes a novel method to […]
Queen Elizabeth II Presents £1m Engineering Prize to Dr. Robert Langer
Robert Langer | Via Daily Mail | October 26, 2015Queen Elizabeth II has presented a £1million engineering prize to Dr Robert Langer at a prestigious reception at Buckingham Palace. Having been bestowed to only one recipient beforehand, chemical engineer Dr Langer received The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his ‘revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine’. The […]
Pitt Researchers Are Working to Mass-Produce Stem Cells
Prashant Kumta | Via Pitt Chronicle | October 26, 2015Human stem cells hold great promise for medicine: They can be used therapeutically, they can help model disease, and they can be used to help discover new drugs. But it is very difficult to culture enough cells to meet the demand. Pitt’s Ipsita Banerjee recently received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to […]
Adams Receives Thomas Jefferson Awards for Service
Milton Adams | Via U. Virginia | October 23, 2015The two outstanding faculty members – J. Milton Adams and Timothy D. Wilson – received theThomas Jefferson Awards for their service and scholarship, respectively. Between them, they have spent more than 70 years on Grounds. Those who nominated Adams for the Jefferson Award for Service also repeatedly mentioned his humility, despite his many accomplishments on […]
UTSA Biomedical Engineer Rena Bizios Elected To The National Academy Of Medicine
Rena Bizios | Via U. Texas at San Antonio | October 21, 2015(Oct. 21, 2015) — UTSA faculty member, educator and researcher Rena Bizios, a pioneer in biomedical engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors for medical sciences, health care and public health professionals. Bizios’ election to the National Academies moves UTSA one step closer to Tier One, a […]
Truskett Named 2015 American Physical Society Fellow
Thomas Truskett | Via U. Texas at Austin | October 20, 2015Thomas Truskett, professor and chair of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Topical Group on Soft Matter, Truskett was cited for “pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact the structure, dynamics and self-assembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems.” Truskett’s research studies […]
Marshall Announces Dr. Jerome Gilbert as 37th president
Jerome Gilbert | Via WV MetroNews | October 20, 2015HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Dr. Jerome “Jerry” Gilbert was selected Tuesday to be Marshall University’s 37th president. Gilbert has been the provost and executive vice president of Mississippi State University since 2010. He was one of three candidates to make visits last week to both the Huntington and South Charleston campuses. “It’s extremely exciting,” said Ginny […]