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Xiaodu Wang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xiaodu Wang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Xiaodu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Wang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding […]
Yu-li Wang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Yu-li Wang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Yu-li Wang, Ph.D., Robert Mehrabian Professor and Department Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Wang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]
Jaw-Lin Wang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Jaw-Lin Wang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Jaw-Lin Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Wang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to the study […]
May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
May Wang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D., Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, GCC Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Kavli Fellow, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, IBB, IPaT, Winship Cancer Institute, Georgia […]
Eddy Warman, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Eddy Warman | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Eddy Warman, Ph.D., Research Director, Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure, Medtronic, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Warman was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For reframing the atrial anti-tachycardia pacing […]
James D. Weiland, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
James Weiland | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of James D. Weiland, Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Weiland was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of […]
Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Muhammad Zaman | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zaman was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows […]
Xingdong Zhang To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xingdong Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Xingdong Zhang, Honorary Director and Professor, National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, , Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, to its College of Fellows. Mr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College […]
Yongxing Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Yongxing Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Yongxing Zhang, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Center for Innovation and Strategic Collaboration, St. Jude Medical, Inc., to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding […]
John X.J. Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
John Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of John X.J. Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Thayer School of Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Micro-Nano Scale Bio-manipulation, Imaging and Sensing, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
Liangfang Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Liangfang Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Liangfang Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to creating […]
Li-Qun Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Li-Qun Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Li-Qun Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Sr. Research Scientist, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Departments of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members […]
David Daomin Zhou, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
David Zhou | Via AIMBE | March 5, 2015WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of David Daomin Zhou, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, , Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhou was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For advancing electrochemical and electrode […]
CWRU Researchers Bring Clean Energy A Step Closer
Liming Dai | Via Think Case | March 5, 2015CLEVELAND—For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to replace precious metal catalysts in fuel cells. Now, for the first time, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have shown that an inexpensive metal-free catalyst performs as well as costly metal catalysts at speeding the oxygen reduction reaction in an acidic fuel cell. The carbon-based […]
How Bioinspiration is Driving Medical Innovation
Jeffrey Karp | Via HealthHub | March 5, 2015Solving medical problems is extremely challenging. By bringing experts from multiple disciplines together to work at the interface of those disciplines, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are introducing creative new ways to address medical problems. In this video, Jeffrey Karp, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Accelerated Medical Innovation, discusses how his research […]
U of T Engineer Takes L’oréal-Unesco Honour For ‘stem Cell Space Suits’
Molly Shoichet | Via U. of Toronto | March 3, 2015University of Toronto biomedical engineering professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) has been named the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science North American laureate for 2015. Already the only person ever elected to all three of Canada’s science academies, Shoichet is the innovative mind behind breakthroughs ranging from ‘space suits’ for fragile stem cells to polymer-based ‘vehicles’ that could […]
Professor Sangtae Kim Elected Fellow of AICHE
Sangtae Kim | Via Purdue | March 2, 2015Distinguished Professor Sangtae Kim was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE). This prestigious recognition is the AICHE’s highest grade of membership and was bestowed upon Kim for his significant professional accomplishment in chemical engineering. Professor Kim has been a faculty member in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue since 2003 […]
Applied Physics Laboratory Receives $4m To Develop A Retinal Prosthesis
Alfred Mann | Via HUB | March 1, 2015The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received $4 million in funding from the Mann Fund to develop a next-generation retinal prosthesis system. The Mann Fund was created by philanthropist Alfred E. Mann 15 years ago to support the development of biomedical technologies. This work will be conducted in close collaboration with Second Sight […]
Robert Malkin: MacGyvering Medical Gear
Robert Malkin | Via IEEE Spectrum | March 1, 2015It’s 1989. Five years after earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Robert Malkin is designing cardiac pacemakers in Switzerland. It’s an important job, and he’s developing deep expertise and earning good money. But he’s unhappy. Very unhappy. “I decided I didn’t want to be an engineer,” he says. “Actually, I didn’t want to work […]
Letting Bio-Inspired Solutions Evolve: Q&a With Jeffrey Karp
Jeffrey Karp | Via TEDMED | February 20, 2015Why does this talk matter now? What impact do you hope the talk will have? Solving medical problems is very challenging; we often encounter barriers that seem insurmountable. Instead of relying on our limited intellect and narrow thinking, there is opportunity for us to turn to nature for inspiration. Every living thing has overcome an […]