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Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership Awards $1 Million In Funding And Support For Promising Biomedical Engineering University Technologies
Robert Kirsch | Via THINK | September 22, 2015CLEVELAND—The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership has announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2015 cycle. This includes six full biomedical engineering projects, from an affordable and easy method to screen for Barrett’s esophagus, to synthetic life-saving blood platelets, to a technology that reduces pain after joint-replacement surgery. The 9-year-old program, a […]
Silk and Ceramic Implants Could Offer Long-Term Joint Injury Repair
Rosemarie Hunziker | Via MDT | September 17, 2015Complete joint replacement, while highly successful, is major surgery with rigorous and often painful therapy regimens and lengthy recovery time. Driven by the need to develop more effective therapies requiring less recovery time for common joint conditions such as osteoarthritis, an international team including NIBIB-funded researchers has developed an integrated two-part scaffold for implantation into […]
Nanoparticles Can Make Medicines More Effective
Liangfang Zhang | Via MDT | September 17, 2015Nanoparticles disguised as human platelets could greatly enhance the healing power of drug treatments for cardiovascular disease and systemic bacterial infections. These platelet-mimicking nanoparticles, developed by engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are capable of delivering drugs to targeted sites in the body — particularly injured blood vessels, as well as organs infected […]
SFB Creates Cato Laurencin Travel Fellowship
Cato Laurencin | Via Society for Biomaterials | September 16, 2015Named in honor of a distinguished member of the Society For Biomaterials, the Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Travel Fellowship will support under-represented minorities in the field of biomaterials by providing an undergraduate student resources to attend the annual meeting of the Society For Biomaterials, and to become a member of the Society. The goal […]
Researchers Pursue Ideal Ingredients For Cartilage Recipe
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Case Western | September 16, 2015A 5-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Harvard University to build a microfactory that churns out a formula to produce joint cartilage. The end product could one day benefit many of the tens of millions of people in the United States who […]
New Biodegradable Gel Helps Heal Wounds
Ali Khademhosseini | Via HealthHub | September 15, 2015Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) bioengineers have a developed a unique hydrogel whose properties could provide significant benefits in wound healing. The BWH Biomedical Engineering Division team, led by biomedical engineer Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, and chemical engineer Nasim Annabi, PhD, reported their findings in the July 1, 2015, online edition of Advanced Functional Materials. […]
Surgical Probe Seeks Out Where Cancer Ends and Healthy Tissue Begins
Stephen Boppart | Via MDT | September 15, 2015A new surgical tool that uses light to make sure surgeons removing cancerous tumors “got it all” was found to correlate well with traditional pathologists’ diagnoses in a clinical study, showing that the tool could soon enable reliable, real-time guidance for surgeons. The interdisciplinary research team led by Stephen Boppart, a University of Illinois professor of electrical […]
‘Lab-on-a-Chip’ Could Cut Costs of Sophisticated Diagnostic Tests
Martin Yarmush | Via MDT | September 14, 2015Rutgers engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the cost of sophisticated lab tests for medical disorders and diseases, such as HIV, Lyme disease and syphilis. The new device uses miniaturized channels and valves to replace “benchtop” assays – tests that require large samples of blood or other fluids and expensive chemicals […]
Filling A Void In Stem Cell Therapy
David Mooney | Via Harvard News | September 14, 2015Possible stem cell therapies often are limited by low survival of transplanted stem cells and the lack of precise control over their differentiation into the cell types needed to repair or replace injured tissues. A team led by David Mooney, a core faculty member at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, has now developed a strategy that has […]
Nine Professors Honored At Endowed Chair Holder Celebration
Michael Miga | Via Vanderbilt | September 9, 2015Nine faculty members who hold endowed chairs were honored for their extraordinary academic achievements at a Sept. 8 festive event at the Student Life Center. “We celebrate our colleagues today as a way of thanking them for their work to make this world a better place,” said Jeff Balser, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean […]
Hand in Glove: UConn Surgeon Brings Healing Hands to Boxing
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn Today | September 8, 2015After famed boxer Mike Tyson defeated Buster Mathis in the third round of a 1995 bout, the former heavyweight champion of the world waited for the referee to call the match, then hugged his contender. Just a few feet away, Tyson’s ringside doctor witnessed this simple gesture between the two men, who moments before had […]
Biomedical engineering milestones
Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | September 8, 2015Biomedical engineering program accredited, granted departmental status The biomedical engineering (BME) program at the University of Delaware recently reached two important milestones: accreditation by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and approval for departmental status by the UD Faculty Senate. The BME program, developed by a steering committee led by Tom Buchanan and composed […]
Silk Bio-Ink Could Advance 3D Printed Tissue Engineering
David Kaplan | Via MDT | September 2, 2015Advances in 3D printing have led to new ways to make bone and some other relatively simple body parts that can be implanted in patients. But finding an ideal bio-ink has stalled progress toward printing more complex tissues with versatile functions — tissues that can be loaded with pharmaceuticals, for example. Now scientists, reporting in […]
Kavraki Wins Technical Leadership Award
Lydia Kavraki | Via Rice | September 1, 2015Lydia Kavraki, Rice’s Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and a professor of bioengineering, has been named the winner of the 2015 Award for Technical Leadership by the Anita Borg Institute. The institute, which promotes the progress of women in technology, will present the award to Kavraki at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women […]
Nicholas Peppas Receives International Award from ESB
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | September 1, 2015Nicholas Peppas, the Cockrell Family Regents Chair #6 in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at UT Austin, recently received the 2015 International Award from the European Society for Biomaterials. The award was given at the 27th European Conference on Biomaterials in Krakow, Poland, Sept. 1. The prestigious accolade recognizes scientists […]
Ravi Kane Joins ChBE as Betty Chair/Eminent Scholar
Ravi Kane | Via Georgia Tech | September 1, 2015Ravi Kane has joined the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as a professor and holder of the Garry Betty/V Foundation Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology. Kane will hold also program faculty status in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Previously, Kane served on […]
New Texas Engineering Institute Advances Health Care Solutions for Today’s Patients
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | August 31, 2015The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin is launching the university’s first health care engineering institute dedicated to developing technologies and treatments that will immediately improve patient quality of life. Led by Nicholas Peppas, a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, the College of Pharmacy, the Department of […]
Cwru Researchers Efficiently Charge A Lithium-Ion Battery With Solar Cell
Liming Dai | Via Case THINK | August 31, 2015Consumers aren’t embracing electric cars and trucks, partly due to the dearth of charging stations required to keep them moving. Even the conservation-minded are hesitant to go electric in some states because, studies show, if fossil fuels generate the electricity, the car is no greener than one powered with an efficient gasoline. Charging cars by […]
Guiseppi-Elie Selected For Fulbright Specialists Project
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M | August 30, 2015Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, TEES professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología (FACET) in Argentina during the 2015 fall semester by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright […]
New “Tissue Velcro” Could Help Repair Damaged Hearts
Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | August 28, 2015Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart cells to snap together just like Velcro™. “One of the main advantages is the ease of use,” says Professor Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME), who […]