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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has selected Scott P. Bruder, MD, PhD, as the 2015 recipient of the Pierre Galletti Award. The Galletti Award is the highest honor that AIMBE bestows on an individual. Dr. Bruder has contributed to the advancement of human health through research and commercialization […]
LAS VEGAS — Robert L. Mauck, PhD, an associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of four scientists given awards by the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons […]
College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen is one of 121 deans presenting a letter of commitment to President Barack Obama this week to educate a new generation of engineers expressly equipped to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing society in the 21st century. These “Grand Challenges,” identified through initiatives such as the White House Strategy […]
Joseph DeSimone, the CEO of manufacturing firm Carbon3D, was a featured speaker at the TED Conference in Vancouver last week. The focus of his seminar was on the potential of 3-D printing. DeSimone specifically highlighted the machine he co-created telling the audience it is “25 to 100 times faster” than the other printers currently on […]
Nicholas Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected to present the 2015 Reilly Lectures for the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Peppas will give two presentations as part of the […]
The 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 […]
Troy, 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 […]
Dr. 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, 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 […]
The 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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, […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]
Dr. 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 […]
Nicholas 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. […]
Eye 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]
WASHINGTON, 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 […]