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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Goes to Robert Langer
Robert Langer | Via QE Prize | February 5, 2015Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – Dr Robert Langer. The ground-breaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer has been awarded the QEPrize for his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine. Dr Langer was the first person to engineer polymers to control the delivery of large molecular […]
Potential Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Could Increase Life Expectancy
Joseph DeSimone | Via UNC Healthcare | February 4, 2015Pancreatic cancer cells are notorious for being protected by a fortress of tissue, making it difficult to deliver drugs to either shrink the tumor or stop its growth. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a device that could change all that: By using electric fields, the device can […]
Smile! You’re on the World’s Fastest 2-D Camera
Lihong Wang | Via Fortune | January 30, 2015Researchers have created the fastest imaging device of its type—a tool that may transform biomedicine, telecommunications, and more. Strain as you might, some events happen too fast to perceive—the flap of a hummingbird’s wings, an atomic bomb’s instantaneous detonation, supersonic bullets carving a watermelon. Advances in optical technology have allowed humans to savor ephemera, extending […]
UC San Diego, UC San Francisco Launch New Cancer Cell Mapping Initiative
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego News | January 29, 2015Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, San Francisco, with support from a diverse team of collaborators, have launched an ambitious new project – dubbed the Cancer Cell Map Initiative or CCMI – to determine how all of the components of a cancer cell interact. “We’re going […]
Sang Yup Lee Calls for Creativity and Collaboration to Solve Global Problems
Sang Yup Lee | Via Northwestern McCormick News | January 26, 2015More than 2 billion people will be age 60 or older by the year 2050, according to a United Nations report. Sang Yup Lee, distinguished professor and dean at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), shared this stunning statistic during his visit to Northwestern University this week. “This is scary,” said Lee […]
Zaman Elected as AIMBE Fellow
Muhammad Zaman | Via Boston University | January 23, 2015A College of Engineering faculty member since 2009 and the College’s only Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor, Zaman heads the Cellular and Molecular Dynamics Lab, which engineers new experimental and computational technologies for major healthcare problems in both the developing and developed world, including probing the mechanisms of cancer metastasis. The lab focuses on how […]
Morgan Elected as AIMBE Fellow
Elise Morgan | Via Boston University | January 23, 2015Since joining the College of Engineering faculty in 2003, Associate Professor Elise Morgan (ME, BME) has worked to advance understanding of the role of the mechanical function of tissues and organs in skeletal health, repair and development, with the ultimate goal of pinpointing causes and treatments for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and poor bone healing. As director of the Orthopaedic […]
Dr. Dobson Elected as Fellow AIMBE
Jon Dobson | Via U. of Florida | January 22, 2015Congratulations to Dr. Jon Dobson who was just elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This is a distinct honor that is awarded to the upper 2% of all bioengineers who have excelled in the biomedical and biological engineering fields. AIMBE is the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical […]
Thomas Truskett Elected Fellow of AIMBE
Thomas Truskett | Via U. Texas Austin | January 21, 2015Thomas Truskett, department chair and the Les and Sherri Stuewer Endowed Professor, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Nominated by their peers, Fellows represent the top two percent of the most accomplished medical and biological engineers leading medical discovery and innovation. Truskett was recognized for his […]
Jonathan Dordick Named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Jonathan Dordick | Via RPI | January 21, 2015Jonathan Dordick is the vice president for research and the Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer. He is a faculty member in the Howard. P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer, and holds joint appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biology. […]
Allbritton Named NAI Fellow
Nancy Allbritton | Via NC State Engineering | January 20, 2015The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Dr. Jagdish Narayan, John C. C. Fan Distinguished Chair in Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Nancy Allbritton, professor and chair of the Joint NC State/UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering, as 2014 NAI Fellows. The National Academy of Inventors was founded in […]
Ducheyne Recipient of the 2015 Society for Biomaterials Founders Award
Paul Ducheyne | Via Biospace | January 20, 2015Paul Ducheyne, PhD of the University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of the 2015 Founders Award for his long-term landmark contributions to the discipline of biomaterials. Professor Ducheyne’s research activities have established him as a pioneer and leader in bioengineering, orthopedic surgery research and tissue engineering. “Throughout his career, Paul has been a highly productive […]
Peppas Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. of Texas at Austin | January 16, 2015Nicholas Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and the College of Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).The Royal Society of Chemistry, founded in 1841, is the United Kingdom’s professional […]
Duke Researchers Hail Breakthrough After Growing Muscle Tissue in Lab
Nenad Bursac | Via Time | January 14, 2015Scientists at Duke University announced this week that human skeletal muscle has been successfully grown in the laboratory that is able to react to stimuli just like native tissue. The lab-grown muscle will allow researchers to study the effects that drugs and disease have on muscle tissue without having to endanger the health of a […]
David Mooney Receives Grant To Develop Animal Contraceptive Vaccine
David Mooney | Via Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | January 13, 2015The Gary Michelson Found Animals Foundation has awarded Harvard bioengineer David Mooney a three-year grant totaling more than $700,000 to pursue development of a vaccine technology that would provide a nonsurgical method for spaying and neutering dogs and cats. Mooney is the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering […]
Dr. Wheeler named IAMBE Fellow
Bruce Wheeler | Via University of Florida | January 7, 2015Dr. Bruce Wheeler has been chosen as a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). This award is given for outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering. IAMBE is affiliated with the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), which coordinates the activities of 63 BME societies […]
GlySens Raises $12M for Wireless Implantable Glucose Sensor
David Gough | Via Xconomy | January 7, 2015San Diego-based GlySens says it has raised $12 million in Series C funding to advance its wireless technology for an implantable sensor that could be used to monitor blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. No investors were identified in the statement issued by GlySens, which says only that several new investors participated in the […]
New Technology Focuses Diffuse Light Inside Living Tissue
Lihong Wang | Via http://news.wustl.edu/ | January 5, 2015In the Jan. 5 issue of Nature Communications, Wang, the Gene K. Beare Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals for the first time a new technique that focuses diffuse light inside a dynamic scattering medium containing living tissue. In addition, Wang and […]
New 3d Printed Implant Shows Meniscal Regeneration Benefits
Jeremy Mao | Via Arthritis Research UK | January 1, 2015A new type of personalised implant could be used to replace the meniscus – the knee’s protective lining – in order to help prevent arthritis. Columbia University Medical Center have devised a way of using a 3D-printed implant or scaffold infused with human growth factors to prompt the body to regenerate this lining on its […]
Bacteria ‘factories’ Churn Out Valuable Chemicals
George Church | Via Harvard Gazette | December 24, 2014A team of researchers led by Harvard geneticist George Church at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School (HMS) has made big strides toward a future in which the predominant chemical factories of the world are colonies of genetically engineered bacteria. In a new study, scientists at the Wyss Institute modified […]