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Zhongjun Jon Wu, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Zhongjun Wu | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Zhongjun Jon Wu, Ph.D., Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of Louisville, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Wu was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members […]
Lei Xing, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Lei Xing | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Lei Xing, Ph.D., Jacob Haimson Professor, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Xing was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to the field of […]
Jian Yang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Jian Yang | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Jian Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Yang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For contributions to the citrate-based biomaterials and technology […]
Yi Yan Yang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Yi Yan Yang | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Yi Yan Yang, Ph.D., Group Leader, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Nanomedicine and bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, to its College of Fellows. […]
Tai-Horng Young, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Tai-Horng Young | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Tai-Horng Young, Ph.D., Chair Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Young was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For seminal research achievement in […]
Kang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kang Zhang | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief of Ophthalmic Genetics, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the […]
Xin Zhang, Ph.D. Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xin Zhang | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Xin Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for pioneering contributions in expanding the […]
Gang Zheng, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Gang Zheng | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Gang Zheng, Ph.D., Professor Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics & IBBME, University of Toronto, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zheng was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows […]
Bin Zheng, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Bin Zheng | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Bin Zheng, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Oklahoma TSET Cancer Research Scholar, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zheng was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
S. Kevin Zhou, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
S. Kevin Zhou | Via AIMBE | January 20, 2016WASHINGTON, 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, 2016Researchers 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, 2016Regenerative 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, 2016Our 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, 2016New 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, 2016University 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, 2016The 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, 2016Video 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, 2016Imperial’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, 2016Six 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, 2016Each 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 […]