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Pitt’s Innovation Challenge Awards $375,000
Yadong Wang | Via Pitt Chronicle | December 7, 2015Three projects that aim to solve health issues across the lifespan were each awarded $100,000 prizes in the third Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh™). Three other projects received $25,000 awards. PInCh is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Office of the Provost, and the Innovation Institute. During the first […]
Study To Explore Spinal Cord Stimulation To Ease Paralysis
Peter Konrad | Via Vanderbilt | December 3, 2015A Vanderbilt neurosurgeon is looking to recruit patients with paraplegia to investigate whether intraspinal microstimulation technology can restore complex body movements. The implantation of tiny electrodes along the spinal cord has caused paralyzed animals to walk, but it has yet to be tested with humans. Peter Konrad, M.D., Ph.D., and his research team are seeking […]
Professor Michael Shuler Receives Lush Science Prize
Michael Shuler | Via Cornell Engineering | December 1, 2015Congratulations to Professor Michael Shuler on winning a 2015 Lush Science Prize, an award that recognizes projects and individuals who work towards replacing animals in toxicity testing. Dr. Shuler received the prize in London, and is pictured with it on the Lush Prize website. Michael Shuler is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering. He […]
Susan Margulies Appears on Charlie Rose Brain Series
Susan Margulies | Via Charlie Rose | December 1, 2015The Charlie Rose Brain Series, Year Three. In our fourth episode, we consider Sports-Induced Brain Trauma, focusing specifically on its effect on children. We are joined by Tori Belluci was an All-Met soccer player at Huntingtown High School in Maryland. She turned down a full scholarship to play soccer in college after she suffered her […]
Drs. Hickman & Shuler of Hesperos Awarded 2015 Lush Prize
James Hickman | Via Hesperosinc. | December 1, 2015ORLANDO, Fla. — Hesperos Inc., utilizing technology developed by UCF and Cornell University scientists to enable a more accurate way to test pharmaceuticals without using animal subjects, has been awarded a major international prize. This innovative technology, known as Body-on-a-Chip or Human-on-a-Chip, was recently awarded the 2015 Lush Prize for Science over 11 finalists from Japan, […]
A Better Way to Change the Fate of Stem Cells
David Mooney | Via Harvard | November 30, 2015Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a new, more precise way to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone cells. This new technique has promising applications in the realm of bone regeneration, growth and healing. The research […]
Jon Dobson has been Named AAAS Fellow
Jon Dobson | Via U. Florida | November 25, 2015Jon Dobson, a professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dobson will be recognized during a ceremony for new fellows Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, during the 2016 AAAS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The 347 new […]
AAAS taps Sakiyama-Elbert as 2015 fellow
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via Wash. U. in St. Louis | November 23, 2015Three faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 347 new fellows named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. David W. Piston, PhD; Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD; and Jeffrey M. Zacks, PhD, will receive the highest honor awarded by AAAS in recognition of […]
Shu Chien Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | November 23, 2015Six University of California, San Diego professors have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. They are among 347 members selected this year by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored for “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” […]
U of T Engineers Talk Regenerative Medicine and Space Junk at TEDxToronto
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | November 19, 2015Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) and Natalie Panek (AeroE MASc 0T9) were among the inspiring roster of speakers and performers at this year’s TEDxToronto conference, held October 22. Shoichet’s talk focused on her research into regenerative medicine and it’s potential to be a game-changer in the treatment of disease. “When I look back on medical […]
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 […]