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Paul Yager Receives Over $4M To Continue Developing Paper-Based Diagnostic Device
Paul Yager | Via U. of Washington | August 11, 2015UW Bioengineering Professor Paul Yager has received $4,197,407 of funding from the U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue a project which aims to develop a small, paper-based device that could quickly test for infectious diseases in low-resource environments. With this new funding, Dr. Yager is the third-highest recipient of research funding […]
One Man’s Quest To Combat Counterfeit Drugs
Muhammad Zaman | Via NPR | August 10, 2015In a small house in rural Kenya, a young woman gives birth to a healthy little girl. Before anyone can celebrate, the mother starts bleeding. The woman will die soon if the bleeding doesn’t stop. Luckily, the midwife has a drug in front of her, called oxytocin. It can easily stop the postpartum bleeding and […]
5 Questions With Professor Of Biomedical Engineering Anant Madabhushi
Anant Madabhushi | Via The Daily | August 7, 2015As a high school student in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in the 1990s, Anant Madabhushi competed against thousands of students for a spot in the country’s premier medical and engineering schools. Then, his uncle, an engineer with General Electric in the United States, sent him a book on biomedical engineering—at the time, an emerging discipline. […]
Cherry Lands Top NCI Grant
Simon Cherry | Via UC Davis | August 6, 2015Simon Cherry, distinguished professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, and co-leader of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Biomedical Technology Program, has been selected to receive a prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The award, which supports investigators with outstanding records of productivity in cancer research, brings more […]
Making New Waves In Anesthesia
Emery Brown | Via TEDMED | August 6, 2015Emery Brown, anesthesiologist, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT, and Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, unveiled the surprising truth about exactly what happens to your brain under anesthesia and what it suggests for understanding the brain and improving treatment. “Anesthesia works primarily through the production of oscillations that disrupt the […]
Damon To Lead Chemical And Physical Biology Grad Program
Bruce Damon | Via Vanderbilt | August 6, 2015Bruce Damon, Ph.D., has been named director of Vanderbilt University’s Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) graduate program, which prepares students for “cutting-edge” research careers at the interface of the chemical sciences, physical sciences and biology. Damon, associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, succeeds Hassane Mchaourab, Ph.D., who founded […]
How New Biosensors Turn E. Coli Into Something Valuable
George Church | Via Harvard Gazette | August 4, 2015Super-productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells, such as common E. coli, to create valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way. By leveraging their natural metabolic processes, bacteria could be reprogrammed to convert readily available sources of natural energy into pharmaceuticals, plastics, and fuel products. “The basic idea […]
Rebuilding Muscle, Strengthening Lives
Stephen Badylak | Via Pitt Chronicle | August 3, 2015Sergeant Ronald Strang survived an IED blast in Afghanistan that shredded muscle from his left leg. After 18 months and 14 surgeries, his movement was still very limited. So he entered a Pitt-UPMC study that would test a new approach to significant muscle loss. Researchers began with some physical tests. For instance, Strang was asked […]
New ENG Offerings in Data Analytics, Cybersecurity and Robotics
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston U. | August 3, 2015In an effort to train its graduate students in rapidly expanding fields, this fall the College of Engineering will begin offering three new master’s degree specializations in the fields of data analytics, cybersecurity, and robotics. “The corporate sector has voiced frustration with the shortage of trained engineers in key sectors of the innovation economy,” says […]
Researchers Awarded $14 Million For Two Precision Health Projects
Russ Altman | Via Stanford | August 3, 2015Teri Klein and Russ Altman have received NIH funding to expand two ongoing projects that publish information about the connection between patients’ genetics and their responses to prescription drugs. The National Institutes of Health has awarded School of Medicine researchers Teri Klein, PhD, and Russ Altman, MD, PhD, $14 million in funding for two projects […]
College of Engineering to Honor Three Distinguished Alumni at Annual Night of the Stars
Cynthia Bir | Via Wayne State | July 31, 2015Wayne State University’s College of Engineering will recognize exemplary alumni during its annual signature event, Night of the Stars, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Three alumni will be inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame. Cynthia Bir, Bruce Hettle and Earl Shipp were selected among more than […]
CRS Honors Peppas for Lifetime Contributions
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas at Austin | July 31, 2015The Controlled Release Society (CRS) recognized Professor Nicholas Peppas for exceptional lifetime contributions to delivery science at their 2015 Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. CRS states “Nicholas A. Peppas has been an icon in the field of controlled release through his innovative research, leadership of the Controlled Release Society, and exceptional support of students. One of […]
Suzie Pun Selected as 2015-16 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador
Suzie Pun | Via U. Washington | July 29, 2015UW Bioengineering Robert F. Rushmer Professor Suzie Pun has been selected as a 2015-16 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador in recognition of her contributions to and innovation in the field of biomaterials and drug delivery. Dr. Pun is one of seven Ambassadors selected for 2015-16. The Ambassadors recently gathered in Washington, D.C. for a July event, “Celebrate […]
U of T to Transform Regenerative Medicine with $114-million Federal Grant
Peter Zandstra | Via U. Toronto | July 28, 2015The University of Toronto is set to cement its position as one of the world’s leading centres for the design and manufacture of cells, tissues and organs that can be used to treat degenerative disease, thanks to a $114-million grant from the federal government. “Our government is investing in research and innovation to create jobs, […]
Behind the scenes of Medicine By Design
Peter Zandstra | Via U. Toronto | July 28, 2015More than 50 researchers and clinicians at the University of Toronto and its partner hospitals are participating in Medicine By Design, the new centre for regenerative medicine announced on July 28, 2015. The centre, which builds on decades of U of T research dating back to the demonstration of the existence of stem cells by James […]
Behind the scenes of Medicine By Design
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | July 28, 2015More than 50 researchers and clinicians at the University of Toronto and its partner hospitals are participating in Medicine By Design, the new centre for regenerative medicine announced on July 28, 2015. The centre, which builds on decades of U of T research dating back to the demonstration of the existence of stem cells by James […]
Grove School Dean Barabino Briefs Congressional Panel on New Biomedical Technologies
Gilda Barabino | Via CCNY | July 28, 2015Gilda Barabino, dean of the Grove School of Engineering, was one of four experts invited to Washington on July 28 to brief the U.S. Congressional Sickle Cell and Research & Development Caucuses on promising new technologies to treat sickle cell disease. The briefing, “Gene Editing and the Path to a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease,” […]
See How Robotics Is Changing What It Means to Be Disabled
Rory Cooper | Via TIME | July 28, 2015At the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) in Pittsburgh, Pa., veterans, engineers, doctors and researchers are working together to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Since 1994, Dr. Rory Cooper and his team have been solving everyday problems of people with disabilities and inventing new technologies to change the way people with disabilities interact […]
Q&A: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Columbia | July 27, 2015Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic’s research is making it possible to engineer human bone and build parts of the heart and lung. An innovative researcher, Vunjak-Novakovic also has launched two start-ups in the course of two years: EpiBone, a bone reconstruction company that allows patients to “grow their own bone,” and TARA Biosystems, which is developing a platform […]
How X-Rays See Through Your Skin
Ge Wang | Via RPI | July 27, 2015Troy, N.Y. — Originally discovered by accident, X-ray CT scans are now performed about 100 million times a year in hospitals and clinics around the world to identify problems in patients. How do these magic eyes work? Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute biomedical imaging expert Ge Wang detailed the history and mechanics of the X-ray and computed […]