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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 […]
CWRU, NASA and Fire Departments Team to Protect Firefighters
Chung-Chiun Liu | Via The Daily | September 29, 2015During the next three years, researchers at Case Western Reserve University will team with NASA Glenn Research Center and firefighters nationally, from Cleveland to Oregon, to design and test sensors aimed at protecting firefighters from respiratory damage and illnesses. The Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the group a $1.5 million Assistance […]
Accelerator Adds $11.7M, Reels in AbbVie, WuxiTech to Back Startups
Leroy Hood | Via Xconomy | September 29, 2015Accelerator Corp. raised $51.1 million and made its long-awaited expansion into New York city last year, and at the time, CEO Thong Le mentioned that his company wasn’t done raising money for the effort. Today it’s added that cash, and a few new strategic investors to its pool of backers as well. Accelerator, the 12-year-old […]
Setton Elected President Of Biomedical Engineering Society
Lori Setton | Via Washington U. in St. Louis | September 28, 2015Lori Setton, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), a professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering.Setton, the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, […]
Johns Hopkins, Dupont Join Forces To Produce Improved Ebola Protection Suit
Youseph Yazdi | Via Johns Hopkins HUB | September 28, 2015The Johns Hopkins University and DuPont have signed license and collaboration agreements allowing DuPont to commercialize a garment with innovative features from Johns Hopkins to help protect people on the front lines of the Ebola crisis and future deadly infectious disease outbreaks. DuPont intends to have the first of these garments available in the marketplace […]
Krishnendu Roy Named New Robert A. Milton Chair at Georgia Tech
Krishnendu Roy | Via Twitter | September 24, 2015Krishnendu Roy has been named the New Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair at the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology effective October 1, 2015.
New Technology Could Mean Better Chemical Analysis On Earth And In Space
Vladislav Yakovlev | Via Texas A&M | September 23, 2015A new lightweight, energy-efficient tool for analyzing a material’s chemical makeup could improve the detection abilities of various technologies, ranging from bomb-detecting drones to space rovers searching for signs of life, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who is part of the team developing the instrument. The tool makes use of optical communications fiber […]
Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership Awards $1 Million In Funding And Support For Promising Biomedical Engineering University Technologies
Robert Kirsch | Via THINK | September 22, 2015CLEVELAND—The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership has announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2015 cycle. This includes six full biomedical engineering projects, from an affordable and easy method to screen for Barrett’s esophagus, to synthetic life-saving blood platelets, to a technology that reduces pain after joint-replacement surgery. The 9-year-old program, a […]
Silk and Ceramic Implants Could Offer Long-Term Joint Injury Repair
Rosemarie Hunziker | Via MDT | September 17, 2015Complete joint replacement, while highly successful, is major surgery with rigorous and often painful therapy regimens and lengthy recovery time. Driven by the need to develop more effective therapies requiring less recovery time for common joint conditions such as osteoarthritis, an international team including NIBIB-funded researchers has developed an integrated two-part scaffold for implantation into […]
Nanoparticles Can Make Medicines More Effective
Liangfang Zhang | Via MDT | September 17, 2015Nanoparticles disguised as human platelets could greatly enhance the healing power of drug treatments for cardiovascular disease and systemic bacterial infections. These platelet-mimicking nanoparticles, developed by engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are capable of delivering drugs to targeted sites in the body — particularly injured blood vessels, as well as organs infected […]
SFB Creates Cato Laurencin Travel Fellowship
Cato Laurencin | Via Society for Biomaterials | September 16, 2015Named in honor of a distinguished member of the Society For Biomaterials, the Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Travel Fellowship will support under-represented minorities in the field of biomaterials by providing an undergraduate student resources to attend the annual meeting of the Society For Biomaterials, and to become a member of the Society. The goal […]
Researchers Pursue Ideal Ingredients For Cartilage Recipe
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Case Western | September 16, 2015A 5-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Harvard University to build a microfactory that churns out a formula to produce joint cartilage. The end product could one day benefit many of the tens of millions of people in the United States who […]
New Biodegradable Gel Helps Heal Wounds
Ali Khademhosseini | Via HealthHub | September 15, 2015Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) bioengineers have a developed a unique hydrogel whose properties could provide significant benefits in wound healing. The BWH Biomedical Engineering Division team, led by biomedical engineer Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, and chemical engineer Nasim Annabi, PhD, reported their findings in the July 1, 2015, online edition of Advanced Functional Materials. […]
Surgical Probe Seeks Out Where Cancer Ends and Healthy Tissue Begins
Stephen Boppart | Via MDT | September 15, 2015A new surgical tool that uses light to make sure surgeons removing cancerous tumors “got it all” was found to correlate well with traditional pathologists’ diagnoses in a clinical study, showing that the tool could soon enable reliable, real-time guidance for surgeons. The interdisciplinary research team led by Stephen Boppart, a University of Illinois professor of electrical […]
‘Lab-on-a-Chip’ Could Cut Costs of Sophisticated Diagnostic Tests
Martin Yarmush | Via MDT | September 14, 2015Rutgers engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the cost of sophisticated lab tests for medical disorders and diseases, such as HIV, Lyme disease and syphilis. The new device uses miniaturized channels and valves to replace “benchtop” assays – tests that require large samples of blood or other fluids and expensive chemicals […]
Filling A Void In Stem Cell Therapy
David Mooney | Via Harvard News | September 14, 2015Possible stem cell therapies often are limited by low survival of transplanted stem cells and the lack of precise control over their differentiation into the cell types needed to repair or replace injured tissues. A team led by David Mooney, a core faculty member at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, has now developed a strategy that has […]
Nine Professors Honored At Endowed Chair Holder Celebration
Michael Miga | Via Vanderbilt | September 9, 2015Nine faculty members who hold endowed chairs were honored for their extraordinary academic achievements at a Sept. 8 festive event at the Student Life Center. “We celebrate our colleagues today as a way of thanking them for their work to make this world a better place,” said Jeff Balser, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean […]
Hand in Glove: UConn Surgeon Brings Healing Hands to Boxing
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn Today | September 8, 2015After famed boxer Mike Tyson defeated Buster Mathis in the third round of a 1995 bout, the former heavyweight champion of the world waited for the referee to call the match, then hugged his contender. Just a few feet away, Tyson’s ringside doctor witnessed this simple gesture between the two men, who moments before had […]
Biomedical engineering milestones
Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | September 8, 2015Biomedical engineering program accredited, granted departmental status The biomedical engineering (BME) program at the University of Delaware recently reached two important milestones: accreditation by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and approval for departmental status by the UD Faculty Senate. The BME program, developed by a steering committee led by Tom Buchanan and composed […]
Silk Bio-Ink Could Advance 3D Printed Tissue Engineering
David Kaplan | Via MDT | September 2, 2015Advances in 3D printing have led to new ways to make bone and some other relatively simple body parts that can be implanted in patients. But finding an ideal bio-ink has stalled progress toward printing more complex tissues with versatile functions — tissues that can be loaded with pharmaceuticals, for example. Now scientists, reporting in […]