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Understanding Deep Brain Stimulation
Warren Grill | Via Duke News | June 23, 2015For the past 17 years, neurosurgeons have implanted electrodes into the brains of persons with Parkinson’s disease to deliver a constant barrage of electric impulses. For many patients, the treatment known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) immediately relieves the motor impairment caused by the disease. Warren Grill, professor of biomedical engineering and neurobiology at Duke […]
IBBME professor honoured with UHN Inventor of the Year Award
Milos Popovic | Via U. of Toronto | June 23, 2015Professor Milos Popovic (IBBME) has been named the recipient of the University Health Network (UHN) 2014 Inventor of the Year Award for his creation of MyndMove, a non-invasive device that delivers electrical stimulation to paralyzed muscles producing movement in arms and hands. Popovic, a professor at the U of T Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and senior […]
Lee Hood’s “100K” Long-Term Health Study Spins Out Startup
Leroy Hood | Via Xconomy | June 19, 2015The 100K is being run by the Institute for Systems Biology, a nonprofit research group founded by Leroy “Lee” Hood, a pioneer of genetic sequencing and other biotech endeavors. The idea, which has grown from Hood’s advocacy of so-called “P4 medicine“— predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory—is to bring many forms of new technology to bear, […]
Tejal Desai Awarded Brown Engineering Alumni Medal | UC San Francisco
Tejal Desai | Via UCSF | June 19, 2015Tejal A. Desai, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, was awarded the 2015 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) from Brown University’s School of Engineering at an Awards Dinner on May 23, in recognition of her career achievements in the field of engineering. She was honored in Alumnae Hall at […]
Listening with Lasers: Hybrid Technique Sees Into Human Body
Lihong Wang | Via Live Science | June 19, 2015A human skull, on average, is about 6.8 millimeters (0.3 inches) thick, or roughly the depth of the latest smartphone. Human skin, on the other hand, is about 2 to 3 millimeters (0.1 inches) deep, or about three grains of salt deep. While both of these dimensions are extremely thin, they present major hurdles for […]
Engineers Receive Grant For ‘Artificial Liver’ That Could Help Find More Effective Drugs
Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | June 18, 2015A research team led by U of T Engineering Professor Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME) received $300,000 this week to create a 3D model of the human liver. Funded by Ontario Centres of Excellence and pharmaceutical consortium CQDM, the project could help determine whether or not new drug molecules are safe for use in humans. Drug […]
Guiseppi-Elie named head of Department of Biomedical Engineering
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M | June 17, 2015Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Guiseppi-Elie will also be the TEES Professor in the department. Both appointments are effective August 17. Guiseppi-Elie currently serves as professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, professor of bioengineering, […]
Biomedical Engineering’s Hunter Peckham receives 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from American Spinal Injury Association
P. Hunter Peckham | Via Case Western | June 17, 2015P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional electrical stimulation to restore hand and arm control in paralyzed individuals. Peckham, […]
Carnegie Mellon to Host GEM4 Summer Institute on the Brain and Mechanics
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon | June 16, 2015Carnegie Mellon University will host the Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4) Summer Institute on Neuroscience and Cellular Mechanics June 22–July 3, 2015. Graduate students, researchers and faculty experts in the fields of biology, engineering, imaging, chemistry and medicine will come together from across the world for a series of lectures and hands-on lab experiences to […]
Professor Inducted To The Canadian Academy Of Engineering
Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | June 5, 2015Eight members of the U of T Engineering community have been inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professors Kamran Behdinan (MIE), Greg Evans (ChemE), Vladimiros Papangelakis (ChemE), Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) and Jim Wallace (MIE), along with alumni Pu Chen (MIE MASc 9T3, PhD 9T8) and Anne Sado (IndE 7T7) are […]
Accelerator Fund Boosts Harvard Tech Startups
Robert Howe | Via Harvard | June 2, 2015Some ideas hatched in university research labs need a little nudge to take off into the real world. Take the robotic hand designed by Professor Robert Howe and his research team. Grasping and manipulating irregular objects is an incredibly challenging task for robots. But in 2012, Howe’s robotic hand managed to outperform its rivals in […]
Awards & More
George Stetten | Via Pitt Chronicle | June 1, 2015Pitt’s Office of the Provost announced winners of the University’s first annual Sustainability Awards during an April 14 luncheon at the University Club. Those recognized in the faculty, staff, student, and group categories, respectively, are: Walter Carson, associate professor of biological sciences, for research and teaching on forest ecology at Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, a […]
Year in Review
David Mooney | Via Harvard | May 31, 2015By isolating mechanical and biological variables one by one in vitro, a team of researchers led by Prof. David Mooney, identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, the tissues frequently involved in breast cancer.After two years of effort, researchers led by Prof. Donhee Ham successfully measured the collective […]
Gunnar Andersson Named To TheraCell Board
Gunnar Andersson | Via Ortho | May 26, 2015nnar B.J. Andersson, M.D., Ph.D and world-renowned spine surgeon has become a director of TheraCell, Inc. and a member of the firm’s surgeon advisory committee. The appointment takes place immediately. Andersson’s appointment expands the board to five directors, two of whom are spine surgeons. “Dr. Andersson’s 45 years of broad experience across both clinical and […]
Dr. Wheeler Retires from UF as BME Emeritus Professor
Bruce Wheeler | Via U. Florida | May 20, 2015The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is sending off Dr. Bruce Wheeler to both retirement from UF (with Emeritus Professor status) and to the position of Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California at San Diego. Professor Wheeler’s new position is predominantly for undergraduate teaching and in particular to be […]
Suzie Pun Awarded Faculty Teacher/Mentor 2015 BioE Award
Suzie Pun | Via U. Washington | May 20, 2015The 2015 BIOE Awards for Faculty Teacher/Mentor, Graduate Student Mentor, Graduate Student TA and Staff were announced on Tuesday, May 19 during the annual Rushmer Lecture. An unprecedented number of nominations were received this year from faculty, students and staff in the department. For this year’s awards, four recipients were named: Faculty Teacher/Mentor: Suzie Pun Graduate Student […]
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Fund Promising, Early-Stage Projects
Elise Morgan | Via Boston University | May 19, 2015The College of Engineering has funded four new projects through the Dean’s Catalyst Award (DCA) grant program, each focused on technologies that promise to make a significant impact on society. ENG and collaborating faculty will receive $40,000 per project to develop novel techniques to advance these technologies. Established by Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen in 2007 […]
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Fund Promising, Early-Stage Projects
Joyce Wong | Via Boston U. | May 19, 2015The College of Engineering has funded four new projects through the Dean’s Catalyst Award (DCA) grant program, each focused on technologies that promise to make a significant impact on society. ENG and collaborating faculty will receive $40,000 per project to develop novel techniques to advance these technologies. Established by Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen in 2007 […]
Backbone of the profession
Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | May 19, 2015Elliott receives national awards for research, mentoring in biomedical engineering Intervertebral discs are the spine’s shock absorbers. With age, they undergo progressive and irreversible degenerative changes that often lead to low back pain. Surgical treatment options for this condition are extremely limited and they don’t restore disc function, so there is tremendous interest in new […]
Dr. Schmidt Awarded UF Research Opportunity Seed Grant
Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | May 17, 2015Dr. Christine Schmidt and her research team, along with her collaborator Dr. Hideko Kasahara (Physiology, COM), were awarded a UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund entitled “Engineering Tissue Mimics to Investigate Congenital Heart Disease.” The overarching goal of this proposal is to engineer cardiac tissue mimics to investigate the role biophysical and biochemical cues play in […]