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Nicholas Peppas Selected as Kelly Lecture Speaker at Purdue University
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | February 20, 2015Nicholas Peppas, chair of the Cockrell School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the 2015 Kelly Lecture speaker at Purdue University. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Kelly Lectures, talks presented annually at Purdue’s School of […]
Insight outside: harnessing nature’s secrets
Jeff Karp | Via Youtube | February 19, 2015
Gunnar Andersson, M.D., Retires
Gunnar Andersson | Via Ortho | February 16, 2015He first came to the U.S. on a research fellowship in 1976 and rose to be the president of the Orthopaedic Research Society in 2000. Gunnar Andersson, M.D., Chairman Emeritus of Orthopedic Surgery at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, has just retired at the age of 72. We stole a few minutes of his time, however, […]
Engineering Faculty Break Boundaries With Research
Scott Diamond | Via Daily Pennsylvanian | February 14, 2015Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor Scott Diamond is conducting research that has captivated the interest of the United States Army. He works on creating extremely detailed descriptions of an individual’s blood makeup. “Ideally, your blood is a liquid until you need it to clot, and these two properties sometimes fight with each other,” Diamond said. “If […]
Sang Yup Lee Appointed Editorial Board of Journal Cell Systems
Sang Yup Lee | Via KAIST | February 13, 2015Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST has been appointed a member of the founding editorial board of the newly established journal Cell Systems. Cell Systems will be a sister journal of Cell, one of the three most prestigious scientific journals along with Nature and Science, that publishes a […]
Jansen to receive Caroline and William Mark Memorial Award
E. Duco Jansen | Via Vanderbilt | February 12, 2015E. Duco Jansen will receive the Caroline and William Mark Memorial Award in April at the 35th annual conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. Jansen, associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and neurological surgery, was selected for his outstanding contributions to laser […]
Keith Johnston Honored by Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Keith Johnston | Via U. Texas Austin | February 10, 2015Keith Johnston has been awarded the 2015 Darsh Wasan Award from the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science for his outstanding contributions to the field. Johnston’s expertise in colloid and interfacial science has lead to advances in nanotechnology for imaging and recovery of subsurface oil and gas, electrochemical energy storage, drug delivery and imaging of […]
Neurosurgeon Henry Brem Named Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence
Henry Brem | Via Johns Hopkins | February 7, 2015Henry Brem, M.D., director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, has been selected to receive a Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence. The award is given annually to five physicians whose dedication, talents and skills have improved the lives of thousands of people throughout the world. This year’s […]
UCSB Chemical Engineer Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Samir Mitragotri | Via UC Santa Barbara | February 5, 2015Samir Mitragotri, professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, is one of 67 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2015. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, […]
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 […]