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Biomedical engineering milestones
Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | September 8, 2015Biomedical engineering program accredited, granted departmental status The biomedical engineering (BME) program at the University of Delaware recently reached two important milestones: accreditation by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and approval for departmental status by the UD Faculty Senate. The BME program, developed by a steering committee led by Tom Buchanan and composed […]
Silk Bio-Ink Could Advance 3D Printed Tissue Engineering
David Kaplan | Via MDT | September 2, 2015Advances in 3D printing have led to new ways to make bone and some other relatively simple body parts that can be implanted in patients. But finding an ideal bio-ink has stalled progress toward printing more complex tissues with versatile functions — tissues that can be loaded with pharmaceuticals, for example. Now scientists, reporting in […]
Kavraki Wins Technical Leadership Award
Lydia Kavraki | Via Rice | September 1, 2015Lydia Kavraki, Rice’s Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and a professor of bioengineering, has been named the winner of the 2015 Award for Technical Leadership by the Anita Borg Institute. The institute, which promotes the progress of women in technology, will present the award to Kavraki at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women […]
Nicholas Peppas Receives International Award from ESB
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | September 1, 2015Nicholas Peppas, the Cockrell Family Regents Chair #6 in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at UT Austin, recently received the 2015 International Award from the European Society for Biomaterials. The award was given at the 27th European Conference on Biomaterials in Krakow, Poland, Sept. 1. The prestigious accolade recognizes scientists […]
Ravi Kane Joins ChBE as Betty Chair/Eminent Scholar
Ravi Kane | Via Georgia Tech | September 1, 2015Ravi Kane has joined the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as a professor and holder of the Garry Betty/V Foundation Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology. Kane will hold also program faculty status in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Previously, Kane served on […]
New Texas Engineering Institute Advances Health Care Solutions for Today’s Patients
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | August 31, 2015The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin is launching the university’s first health care engineering institute dedicated to developing technologies and treatments that will immediately improve patient quality of life. Led by Nicholas Peppas, a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, the College of Pharmacy, the Department of […]
Cwru Researchers Efficiently Charge A Lithium-Ion Battery With Solar Cell
Liming Dai | Via Case THINK | August 31, 2015Consumers aren’t embracing electric cars and trucks, partly due to the dearth of charging stations required to keep them moving. Even the conservation-minded are hesitant to go electric in some states because, studies show, if fossil fuels generate the electricity, the car is no greener than one powered with an efficient gasoline. Charging cars by […]
Guiseppi-Elie Selected For Fulbright Specialists Project
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M | August 30, 2015Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, TEES professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología (FACET) in Argentina during the 2015 fall semester by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright […]
New “Tissue Velcro” Could Help Repair Damaged Hearts
Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | August 28, 2015Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart cells to snap together just like Velcro™. “One of the main advantages is the ease of use,” says Professor Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME), who […]
Tiny Solar Cells Could Soon Charge Electric Vehicles While On The Road
Liming Dai | Via GizMag | August 28, 2015Researchers claim to have hit on the right combination of solar cell type and battery to charge an electric vehicle battery with higher efficiency than ever before. The team behind the research says the system could soon make it possible to attach small cells to a car that will charge the vehicle while being driven […]
Building Curiosity Into Technology
Wolfgang Fink | Via U. Arizona | August 27, 2015The year is 2045. Geologists have landed on various bodies in the solar system and are exploring alien landscapes. On Mars, a geologist climbs up a slope after spotting a peculiar-looking rock. On Saturn’s moon Titan, a blimp glides through the brown haze, surveying the methane lakes below while directing another explorer to cross the […]
Protective Suit For Ebola Caregivers Lands Johns Hopkins, Jhpiego Among Finalists In Global Design Competition
Youseph Yazdi | Via Johns Hopkins | August 27, 2015A team representing Johns Hopkins and Jhpiego is among the finalists for an international award that recognizes innovative designs that improve lives for its improved protective suit for health workers treating patients with Ebola and other infectious diseases. Winners of the INDEX: Awards were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Denmark. The protective suit […]
Research Trio Outlines Ways Nanodiamonds Are Being Used To Treat Cancer
Dean Ho | Via PHYS.ORG | August 25, 2015(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, Dean Ho, with UCLA in the U.S., Chung-Huei Katherine Wang, with BRIM Biotechnology Inc., in Taipei and Edward Kai-Hua Chow with the National University of Singapore, has published a review in Science Advances, of the ways nanodiamonds are being used in cancer research and offer insights into the ways they may […]
Yakovlev And Han Lead $1 Million Project Through Nsf Major Research Instrumentation Grant
Vladislav Yakovlev | Via Texas A&M | August 19, 2015A team of researchers led by Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Arum Han, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation for its efforts in developing a new tool for studying […]
Drug Discovery Pipeline Begins In The Gut
Arul Jayaraman | Via Texas A&M | August 19, 2015“All disease begins in the gut. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease,” said Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician. Of the many disciplines studied in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, biomedicine and biotechnology are areas represented by faculty research. Dr. Arul Jayaraman, Ray Nesbitt Professor and associate department head, was […]
Richards-Kortum Named University Professor
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Rice U. | August 14, 2015Rice University’s Rebecca Richards-Kortum, a pioneer in both bioengineering and global health, has become the first woman and the youngest Rice faculty member to earn the rank of University Professor — Rice’s highest academic title. The promotion is the latest in a string of high-profile honors for Richards-Kortum this year. In April, she was elected […]
Engineered Bacterium Produces 1,3-Diaminopropane, An Important Industrial Chemical
Sang Yup Lee | Via KAIST | August 12, 2015A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) reported, for the first time, the production of 1,3-diaminopropane via fermentation of an engineered bacterium. 1,3-Diaminopropane is a three carbon diamine, which has a wide range […]
Asthma Cells Scramble Like ‘there’s A Fire Drill’
Jeffrey Fredberg | Via Harvard | August 12, 2015In people with asthma, the cells that line the airways in the lungs are unusually shaped and “scramble around like there’s a fire drill going on.” But according to a study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an unexpected discovery suggests intriguing new avenues both for basic biological research and for therapeutic […]
New Contrast Agent Spotlights Tiny Tumors And Micrometastases
Zheng-Rong Lu | Via Case Western | August 12, 2015Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects much smaller aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases than current agents can identify. “Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or metastases smaller than 2 millimeters in diameter,” said Zheng-Rong Lu, professor […]
Nancy Allbritton Receives Endowed Professorship
Nancy Allbritton | Via UNC Gazette | August 11, 2015Career at Carolina: Professor and chair of the UNC-NC State Joint Department in Biomedical Engineering since 2009 and professor of chemistry since 2007 Research specialty: World-renowned pioneer in the areas of bioanalytical chemistry and biomedical engineering who holds 11 patents, with eight patent applications pending; known especially for her work in the growing area of […]