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Kyoto Prize Winner Robert Langer on Innovations to Come
Robert Langer | Via Xconomy | March 19, 2015The Kyoto Prize Symposium is now in full flower in San Diego, highlighting Japan’s highest international award for honoring the people who have made significant contributions to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. The Kyoto Prize was first awarded in 1985, and for many it has become the most prestigious award available in […]
Use of Transplanted Regulatory T Cells Could Provide Relief for Inflammatory Diseases
Juergen Hahn | Via RPI | March 18, 2015Troy, N.Y. — With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a team of researchers – including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Juergen Hahn – will investigate the potential of using transplanted regulatory T cells (Tregs) to reduce inflammation in diseases like inflammatory bowel disease, which currently has no known viable treatment […]
CCNY’s Marom Bikson Elected to Elite Medical and Biological Group
Marom Bikson | Via CCNY | March 13, 2015Dr. Marom Bikson, professor of biomedical engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, will be inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows Monday, March 16, in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will be held during AIMBE’s 2015 annual meeting at the National Academy of […]
Anant Madabhushi Named Associate Member Of Quantitative Imaging Network, Associate Editor Of BMC Medical Imaging
Anant Madabhushi | Via CWRU | March 13, 2015Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics at Case Western Reserve University, was elected unanimously to the National Cancer Institute’s Quantitative Imaging Network on account of his ongoing NCI-funded grant R01CA136535-01 titled, “Software to facilitate multimode, multi-scale fused data for Pathology and Radiology.” The network […]
Hongming Chen, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Hongming Chen | Via AIMBE | March 12, 2015The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Hongming Chen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to its College of Fellows. Dr. Chen was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For the invention and application of high throughput formulation technology […]
Miles N. Wernick, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Miles Wernick | Via AIMBE | March 12, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Miles N. Wernick, Ph.D., Motorola Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; Director, Medical Imaging Research Center, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, to its College of […]
Gajus Worthington To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Gajus Worthington | Via AIMBE | March 12, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Gajus Worthington, President and CEO, Management, Fluidigm, Inc, to its College of Fellows. Mr. Worthington was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For commercializing the biological equivalent of the integrated circuit, […]
Jackie Y. Ying, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Jackie Ying | Via AIMBE | March 12, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Jackie Y. Ying, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Ying was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to research […]
Jayaraman Awarded $2 Million Grant By The National Institutes Of Health
Arul Jayaraman | Via Texas A&M | March 12, 2015Dr. Arul Jayaraman, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Ray Nesbit Professorship, is the principal investigator for a $2 million research grant funded by the National Institutes of Health to study “Modeling and Analysis of the Role of Microbiota Metabolites in T-Cell Differentiation." “We […]
Peppas Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Patras
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | March 10, 2015Nicholas A. Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at UT Austin, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Patras in Patras, Greece. He was awarded the doctorate from the university’s Chemical Engineering Department, the top chemical engineering department in Greece. […]
Ocular’s Long-Lasting Eye Drug Tech Passes First Late-Stage Test
Amar Sawhney | Via Xconomy | March 10, 2015Eye drops are a pain. Depending on the type, they can sting the eyes or cause other side effects, and remembering to use them every day is a nuisance. Ocular Therapeutix is one of the companies trying to come up with an alternative—a sustained-release drug delivery device that’s implanted in the eye, and dissolves when […]
Cameron F. Abrams, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Cameron Abrams | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Cameron F. Abrams, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Drexel University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Abrams was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College […]
Hojjat Adeli, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Hojjat Adeli | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Hojjat Adeli, Ph.D., Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Adeli was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and […]
Kimberly Ward Anderson, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kimberly Anderson | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kimberly Ward Anderson, Ph.D., Gill Eminent Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering, College of Engineering and Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, to its […]
Ioannis P. Androulakis, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Ioannis Androulakis | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Ioannis P. Androulakis, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Department, Rutgers University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Androulakis was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]
Kristy Arbogast, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kristy Arbogast | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kristy Arbogast, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor and Co-Scientific Director, Department of Pediatrics/Division of Emergency Medicine and Center for Injury Research and Prevention, University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Arbogast […]
Hani A. Awad, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Hani Awad | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Hani A. Awad, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Orthopaedics, Professor of Musculoskeletal Research, Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Awad was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the […]
Ulysses G. J. Balis, M.D., FCAP, FASCP To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Ulysses Balis | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Ulysses G. J. Balis, M.D., FCAP, FASCP, Professor of Pathology; Director, Division of Pathology Informatics; Director, Pathology Informatics Fellowship Program, Division of Pathology Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Balis was […]
Francois Baneyx, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Francois Baneyx | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Francois Baneyx, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington; Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Baneyx was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
Kenneth A. Barbee, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kenneth Barbee | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kenneth A. Barbee, Ph.D., Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Barbee was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For creating […]