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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 […]
Scott Bruder Awarded AIMBE’s 2015 Pierre Galletti Award
Scott Bruder | Via AIMBE | March 26, 2015WASHINGTON, 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 […]
Penn Scientist Given Prestigious Award for Young Orthopaedic Researchers
Robert Mauck | Via Penn Medicine | March 26, 2015LAS 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 […]
Dean Lutchen Joins 121 Engineering Deans Pledging to Educate Engineers for Grand Challenges
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | March 25, 2015College 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 […]
The Untapped Potential of 3-D Printing
Joseph DeSimone | Via BioScience Technology | March 24, 2015Joseph 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 […]
Peppas Selected as Reilly Lecturer at Notre Dame
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | March 23, 2015Nicholas 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 […]
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. […]