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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 […]
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 […]