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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 […]
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 […]