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Celators New Drug Combo Will Revolutionize AML Standard of Care: Scott Jackson and Lawrence Mayer [CPXX] – The Life Sciences Report
Lawrence Mayer | Via Life Sciences Report | April 22, 2015Celator Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s remarkable drug combination strategy has produced a cancer-fighting duo endowed with a coveted fast-track designation. Scott Jackson, the company’s CEO, and Lawrence Mayer, president, chief scientific officer and founder, tell The Life Sciences Report about what sets Celator apart, and reveal profit-generating milestones that investors should keep on their scopes.
Elisa Konofagou: Headway in Harmonic Health Care
Elisa Konofagou | Via Columbia | April 16, 2015Imagine if there were a way to detect early-stage cardiovascular disease or cancer without exposing a patient to potentially harmful radiation. Consider the benefits of a therapeutic application that could destroy tumors without surgery or stimulate motor control in the brain of a patient suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, […]
U of T program provides national leadership on science and engineering engagement – U of T Engineering News
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | April 16, 2015This month, 20 top researchers from across Canada get the opportunity to polish their communication and leadership skills at the University of Toronto’s 2015 Science Leadership Program (SLP)—an intensive two-day experience that equips participants with the tools to promote the importance of their research to the public, the media and government decision-makers. Directed by University […]
Fixing the Signal
Warren Grill | Via Proto | April 16, 2015IN ANOTHER EFFORT TO FIND and explore specific neural neighborhoods, Warren Grill, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, is working on electrical stimulation to treat urinary incontinence. That starts with understanding the changes in neural signaling that take place during bladder filling and emptying, both in healthy and overactive bladders. Grill records those signals, […]
Scott P. Bruder, MD, PhD ’84 Receives AIMBE’s Highest Honor
Scott Bruder | Via Brown University | April 14, 2015The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has presented its highest honor, the Pierre Galletti Award, to Scott P. Bruder, MD, PhD ’84. The award is named for the late Pierre M. Galletti, renowned biomedical engineer and the first vice president of biology and medicine at Brown. As an undergraduate concentrator in biology […]
Clifford Brubaker to End 25-Year Tenure as Dean of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Clifford Brubaker | Via Pitt | April 13, 2015Clifford E. Brubaker, who has served as professor and dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences for nearly 25 years, will step down from the deanship on July 1. Brubaker joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1991 when the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences was Pitt’s newest and smallest school. During his […]
Jennifer West Wins 2015 Clemson Award
Jennifer West | Via Duke | April 8, 2015Jennifer West, the Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Cell Biology, and Chemistry, has been awarded the 2015 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials. Clemson Awards are given in honor of the strong traditional ties between the Society […]
Micelle “Packets” Deliver Cancer Drugs
Todd Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt | April 8, 2015Small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules can suppress tumor growth and target cells otherwise untreatable by conventional therapeutics, but targeted, intracellular delivery is a significant limitation to siRNA translation. To deliver the siRNA molecules into tumor cells, researchers have packaged them in micelles that express folic acid, which is internalized by cancer cells that overexpress folate […]
Ratner Named 2015 Langmuir Lecturer
Buddy Ratner | Via Washington U. | April 8, 2015Buddy Ratner, UW professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering and the Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, has been selected as a 2015 Langmuir Lecturer. Langmuir Lecturers are selected by representatives from the ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division and representatives from the journal Langmuir. Each Langmuir Lecturer will deliver a plenary lecture in a […]
Grinstaff Delivers Inaugural Charles DeLisi Lecture
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston U. | April 7, 2015Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry, MED) presented the inaugural Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture on April 2. The first named endowed lecture in the history of the College of Engineering, the Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship, and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact our quality […]
Researchers Create First Metal-Free Catalyst For Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries
Liming Dai | Via Case Western | April 6, 2015CLEVELAND—Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of North Texas have made what they believe is the first metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst that performs as well or better than most metal and metal oxide electrodes in zinc-air batteries. Zinc-air batteries are expected to be safer, lighter, cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion […]
Engineers Will Pioneer the Future of Medicine
Shu Chien | Via MDT Magazine | April 5, 2015Many of tomorrow’s solutions to today’s challenges in medicine will require feats of engineering in addition to biology, chemistry and health sciences. In fact, inventions such as valve prostheses, vascular stents and heart rhythm control systems are examples of how biology and medicine can work together with engineering to improve processes for maintaining health and […]
Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine
Robert Nerem | Via Science Translational Magazine | April 1, 2015Science Translational Medicine published a new article co-authored by Shu Chien, Rashid Bashir, Robert M. Nerem, and Roderic Pettigrew (All AIMBE Fellows), entitled “Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine” in the April 1 issue. The article’s abstract reads: The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that […]
Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine
Rashid Bashir | Via Science Translational Magazine | April 1, 2015Science Translational Medicine published a new article co-authored by Shu Chien, Rashid Bashir, Robert M. Nerem, and Roderic Pettigrew (All AIMBE Fellows), entitled “Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine” in the April 1 issue. The article’s abstract reads: The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that […]
Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine
Roderic Pettigrew | Via Science Translational Magazine | April 1, 2015Science Translational Medicine published a new article co-authored by Shu Chien, Rashid Bashir, Robert M. Nerem, and Roderic Pettigrew (All AIMBE Fellows), entitled “Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine” in the April 1 issue. The article’s abstract reads: The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that […]
U of M Research Foundation Receives Patent for Wound Care Device
Warren Haggard | Via U. Memphis | April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 – The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has been granted United States patent No. 8,993,540, “Compositions and Methods for Delivering an Agent to a Wound.” It is the 20th patent granted to UMRF. The product covered by this patent was invented in the University of Memphis Herff College Of Engineering’s Department […]
U of M Research Foundation Receives Patent for Wound Care Device
Joel Bumgardner | Via U. Memphis | April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 – The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has been granted United States patent No. 8,993,540, “Compositions and Methods for Delivering an Agent to a Wound.” It is the 20th patent granted to UMRF. The product covered by this patent was invented in the University of Memphis Herff College Of Engineering’s Department […]
Engineering Future Health Solutions is Focus of Ashland Lectures
David Edwards | Via U. Kentucky | March 31, 2015LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2015) — As part of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering’s commitment to bring the best intellectual minds and research creativity to campus, the 2015 Ashland Inc. Distinguished Lecture Series will feature two experts, David Edwards and Kinam Park, who are developing novel techniques for sensory and drug delivery. Famous for […]
Engineering Future Health Solutions is Focus of Ashland Lectures
Kinam Park | Via U. Kentucky | March 31, 2015LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2015) — As part of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering’s commitment to bring the best intellectual minds and research creativity to campus, the 2015 Ashland Inc. Distinguished Lecture Series will feature two experts, David Edwards and Kinam Park, who are developing novel techniques for sensory and drug delivery. Kinam Park, […]
University of Minnesota Selected as National Hub by NIH to Accelerate New Inventions to the Market
Bin He | Via U. Minnesota | March 26, 2015The University of Minnesota was recently selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of three sites in the nation to establish a strategic Research and Evaluation Hub (REACH), helping to promote commercialization and technology transfer in life sciences and biomedicine. To develop the hub, NIH will invest $3 million grant with another […]