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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, […]
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 […]