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Taber Wins Skalak Award For Third Time
Larry Taber | Via Washington U. in St. Louis | July 14, 2015Larry Taber, PhD, the Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and four co-authors received the 2015 Richard Skalak Award for the best paper published in 2014 in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. He is the only award recipient to have won the award three times; it has […]
Mikos Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award
Antonios Mikos | Via Rice | July 13, 2015Rice University bioengineer Antonios Mikos will be honored with a lifetime achievement award by Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas at the society’s World Congress in Boston in September. Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering. His group at Rice’s BioScience […]
Dr. Jiang’s Work With Photoacoustic Tomography Highlighted By Optics.Org
Lihong Wang | Via U. Florida | July 13, 2015The migration of photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology from bench top to bedside, long expected thanks to its potential as an alternative to MRI and CT scanning in early-stage cancer detection, continues to take shape. Use of the technique in breast cancer screening has always been identified as a likely clinical success story – not least […]
Petri Dish Tumor Test Could Personalize Drug Therapy For Cancer Patients
David Beebe | Via Wisconsin-Madison | July 11, 2015In a highly successful, first-of-its-kind endeavor, a multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers has created a “tumor in a dish:” an ex vivo microenvironment that can accurately anticipate a multiple myeloma patient’s response to a drug.The advance could mean a giant step forward in efforts to tailor medical treatment plans to individual patients.Led by […]
Cardioinsight Technologies Acquired To Further Advance Heart Mapping Technology Initially Developed At Case Western Reserve University
Yoram Rudy | Via THINK | July 10, 2015The recent acquisition of CardioInsight Technologies Inc., a privately-held, Cleveland-based medical device company, will further advance electrocardiographic mapping technology initially researched and developed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University’s Case School of Engineering and licensed through the university’s technology management office. CardioInsight further developed a non-invasive advanced cardiac mapping system […]
Dr. Ding appointed to Editorial Board for Scientific Reports
Mingzhou Ding | Via U. Florida | July 9, 2015Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding who has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board for Scientic Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature. Scientific Reports launched in 2011 as a multidisciplinary, online-only, open access publication covering all areas of the natural sciences. All research papers benefit from rapid peer review […]
Barabino Laboratory opens
Gilda Barabino | Via CCNY | July 8, 2015Grove School of Engineering Dean Gilda Barabino and her research team now have a permanent place to call home. The Barabino Laboratory officially opened on July 8, giving Barabino and her seven-member team a dedicated space in which to conduct their work on vascular and orthopedic tissue engineering research. For the past two years, Barabino […]
3D Technology – Building a Better Blood Vessel
Ali Khademhosseini | Via HealthHub | July 7, 2015While tissue engineers have made strides in making complex artificial tissues, such as those of the heart, liver and lungs, creating artificial blood vessels has remained a critical challenge in tissue engineering. The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies performs the crucial task of delivering essential nutrients and disposing […]
Morgan Recognized as One of 100 Inspiring Women in STEM
Elise Morgan | Via Boston U. | July 7, 2015Professor Elise Morgan (ME, BME, MSE) was selected as a recipient of INSIGHT Into Diversitymagazine’s 100 Inspiring Women in STEM Award. INSIGHT Into Diversity is the oldest and largest diversity magazine and website in higher education. This award recognizes 100 women whose work and achievements as researchers, teachers and mentors encourages women currently engaged in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and […]
Big New Home For Big Data: $30m Computing Center Nears Opening
Natalia Trayanova | Via Johns Hopkins | July 6, 2015Natalia Trayanova, a Johns Hopkins professor of biomedical engineering, leads a team that creates complex simulations of the heart, using everything from MRIs to the latest information on heart-specific proteins. Her team currently uses computing centers at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus and often must wait for enough processors to become available. If Trayanova’s team needs […]
Dr. Wheeler elected to IFMBE Administrative Council
Bruce Wheeler | Via U. of Florida | July 2, 2015At the recent World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Emeritus Professor Bruce Wheeler was elected to the Administrative Council of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). IFMBE is the umbrella society coordinating the activities of 58 member societies with over 120,000 members from 54 countries. IFMBE has solid links to […]
IEEE Honors Simon Cherry for Molecular Imaging Research
Simon Cherry | Via UC Davis | July 2, 2015Simon Cherry, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, has just received the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering. Cherry has been recognized for his “contributions to the development and application of in vivo […]
Johns Hopkins Researchers Explore How Cancer Spreads, How It Can Be Stopped
Aleksander Popel | Via Johns Hopkins | June 30, 2015The biochemical mysteries of how cancer occurs, grows, and spreads are areas of intense study in centers and bioscience labs around the world, but engineers also are applying their particular perspectives to understanding and stopping cancer in its tracks. Aleksander Popel, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is […]
Peppas Named One of the Most Cited Researchers in World
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | June 25, 2015Dr. Nicholas Peppas has made the list of most cited researchers in the world. Out of 669 ranked researchers with an h-index larger than 100, Peppas is ranked 130. He has an h-index of 131 and 71,921 citations. The list was published by the Ranking Web or Webometrics, the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions. […]
College Announces New Masters Degree Specializations
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | June 25, 2015Motivated by emerging economic sectors, the College of Engineering has created new Master’s degree specializations in the high-impact, interdisciplinary fields of Data Analytics, Cybersecurity and Robotics. The specializations are designed to meet the demand for highly skilled professionals in these rapidly expanding fields. “The corporate sector has voiced frustration with the shortage of trained engineers […]
Gauging Newborn Malnutrition, Kidney Disease and More
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston University | June 25, 2015A surfactant is a substance that reduces the surface tension of the liquid in which it is dissolved, thus enabling the liquid to disperse more easily when it comes in contact with a wettable material. For instance, laundry detergents help water penetrate through fabric and break up stains. Milkfat also acts as a surfactant, causing droplets […]
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, […]