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Prof. Laura Niklason Elected To The National Academy of Medicine
Laura Niklason | Via Yale University | October 20, 2015Prof. Laura Niklason, in the Biomedical Engineering Department, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the nation’s top honors in the fields of health and medicine. Niklason’s research is focused on creating engineered blood vessels, lung tissue and cardiac muscle. She is currently testing engineered arteries in patients with vascular disease […]
5 UCSF Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2015
Tejal Desai | Via UCSF | October 19, 2015Five UC San Francisco faculty members are among the 70 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly known as the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The 70 new regular members and 10 international members were announced at the institute’s 45th annual meeting on Monday. The announcement recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to […]
Breath of Life
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via HHMI | October 15, 2015Rebecca Richards-Kortum couldn’t get the four tiny newborns, crowded shoulder to shoulder in a single plastic crib, off her mind. It was 2005, and Richards-Kortum, a bioengineer and HHMI professor at Rice University, was returning home from Malawi, a landlocked African nation and one of the world’s least-developed countries. While there, she’d visited the neonatal […]
Leading by Example
Muhammad Zaman | Via HHMI | October 15, 2015On a quiet street tucked behind Boston University’s bustling urban campus, Muhammad Zaman says goodbye to four undergraduates and a postdoctoral student also eager to make an impact on health. The five are headed to the airport to catch a plane to Zanzibar, an archipelago off the coast of East Africa, where they will spend […]
Rensselaer Professor Steven Cramer Wins American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology
Steven Cramer | Via RPI News | October 15, 2015Troy, N.Y. – Steven Cramer, the William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has received an American Chemical Society award in Separations Science and Technology. The American Chemical Society (ACS) awards program is designed to encourage the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, to support research in chemical science […]
Collaboration, Innovation at Board of Trustees
Nancy Allbritton | Via U. North Carolina | October 13, 2015Before you can reach the world, it is sometimes necessary to build a bridge. Two of those bridges – and the people they have connected and work they have joined – were the focus at the University Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 1. One of the bridges was the joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) […]
Yakovlev named American Physical Society Fellow
Vladislav Yakovlev | Via Texas A&M | October 12, 2015Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Yakovlev, who was elected upon the recommendation of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, is being recognized for outstanding contributions to the development of ultrafast lasers, optical instrumentation, and […]
Young Women In Engineering Symposium Attracts Top High School Science Students
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | October 9, 2015A select group of high-achieving high school science students had the opportunity to spend their morning last Saturday with one of the world’s leading experts in biomedical engineering. More than 70 top students from schools across the Toronto area gathered at the Faculty’s Young Women in Engineering Symposium (YWIES). The event began with a keynote […]
Wyss Scientists Launch Opsonix With $8M to Fight Blood-Borne Bugs
Donald Ingber | Via Xconomy | October 8, 2015Donald Ingber is known as a pioneer in the organ-on-a-chip field. But the founding director of Harvard University’s Wyss Institute apparently has some other ideas up his sleeve—like a method of clearing dangerous infections from the blood, a technology that has formed the basis for his latest startup. Opsonix, a startup spun out of the […]
New Nanomaterial Maintains Conductivity In Three Dimensions
Liming Dai | Via CWRU | October 7, 2015An international team of scientists has developed what may be the first one-step process for making seamless carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties in three dimensions. The research holds potential for increased energy storage in high efficiency batteries and supercapacitors, increasing the efficiency of energy conversion in solar cells, for lightweight […]
UC Davis Granted $15.5 Million To Build World’s First Total-Body PET Scanner
Simon Cherry | Via UC Davis | October 6, 2015A University of California, Davis, research team has been awarded $15.5 million to build the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography scanner, which could fundamentally change the way cancers are tracked and treated and put the university on the nation’s leading edge of molecular imaging. The Transformative Research Award, part of the National Institutes of […]
Kathryn Uhrich Named Dean of College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Kathryn Uhrich | Via UCR Today | October 6, 2015Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Paul D’Anieri has appointed Kathryn Uhrich as Dean of UCR’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. She is currently Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She will start Jan. 1. “Kathryn Uhrich has excelled as an academic administrator, interdisciplinary researcher and inspiring […]
From Dance Clubs to Syn Bio: MIT’s Collins on Startups, Second Chances
James Collins | Via Xconomy | October 5, 2015t happens over and over again with new science. A discovery prompts crazy hype and massive investment that the data aren’t ready to support. A crash ensues, backers lose millions, egos are bruised—yet the pioneers slowly trudge forward. They regroup, away from the limelight, and try to learn from failure. When it comes to synthetic […]
Materials Day Focuses on Health Care
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston U. | October 5, 2015One hundred and twenty six materials researchers from as near as Boston and as far away as California and Iran convened in the Photonics Center on September 25 for the BU Materials Day symposium, “Nanomaterials in Medicine: Improving Healthcare Through Small Innovations.” The day-long event featured an array of speakers who addressed the promise and […]
Five Takeaways From “Boston’s Life Science Disruptors”
James Collins | Via Xconomy | October 2, 2015—Cool technology. Now, what to we do with it? Atlas Venture’s Peter Barrett and Ankit Mahadevia were interested in MIT professor Jim Collins and protégé Timothy Lu’s latest work. The synthetic biology specialists had two things cooking: a tools platform to “rewire organisms,” and an idea for engineered microbes that could serve as living drugs […]
CWRU Researcher To Transform Clot Makers Into Clot Busters
Samir Mitragotri | Via Case THINK | October 1, 2015CLEVELAND—A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform clot-forming synthetic platelet technology into devices that dissolve clots to prevent strokes and heart attacks. Anirban Sen Gupta, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case School of Engineering, and his collaborators Samir Mitragotri, […]
New ASME Award to Honor Biomedical Breakthroughs
Savio Woo | Via ASME | October 1, 2015ASME has established a new Society-level award, the ASME Savio L-Y. Woo Translational Biomechanics Medal, which recognizes ASME members who have translated meritorious bioengineering science to clinical practice through research, education, professional development, and service to the bioengineering community. Nominations are now being accepted for the award, which was proposed by the ASME Bioengineering Division […]
Mobile Master
Rory Cooper | Via Pitt Magazine | September 30, 2015The events of one summer afternoon on a street in Germany set Rory Cooper on course to transform what’s possible for those with disabilities. As usual, he’s racing ahead, on the frontier of rehabilitation science. Rory Cooper is a man in constant motion. On a recent morning, he moved through the hallways of his laboratories, […]
Joseph DeSimone Receives $250,000 Kabiller Prize In Nanoscience and Nanomedicine
Joseph DeSimone | Via Northwestern | September 30, 2015EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) announced today (Sept. 30) that chemist Joseph M. DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the recipient of the inaugural $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.The Kabiller Prize and the $10,000 Kabiller Young Investigator Award in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine were […]
A Vision for the Maker Space
Cedric Walker | Via Tulane University | September 30, 2015What if you could build virtually any structure that you can imagine? Soon, Tulane University students will be able to create almost anything, thanks to the vision of alumni and faculty members. Located in the former engineering machine shop, the Maker Space is a center for design, invention, innovation and fabrication. What was an antiquated […]