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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 […]
Professors Vunjak-Novakovic Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Columbia | December 17, 2014Of the honor, Vunjak-Novakovic says, ”This really means a lot to me. All our work in the lab is done with eventual applications in mind, and we are actively commercializing some of our technologies. I am happy about being recognized as an inventor, and to be in such good company.” Vunjak-Novakovic directs the Laboratory […]
Berkeley Innovators Named Fellows Of National Academy Of Inventors
Jay Keasling | Via | December 16, 2014Keasling is the Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering, associate laboratory director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, director of UC Berkeley’s Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Emeryville,. A pioneer in synthetic biology, his inventions resulted in engineered microbes to produce the world’s first […]
Nicholas Peppas Inducted Into Prestigious National Academy of Inventors
Nicholas Peppas | Via U. Texas Austin | December 16, 2014Nicholas Peppas, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to renowned academic inventors who have demonstrated a […]
Mikos Named National Academy Of Inventors Fellows
Antonios Mikos | Via Rice News | December 16, 2014Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering. His research group at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative specializes in the synthesis, processing and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, as carriers for controlled drug delivery and as […]
Richards-Kortum Named National Academy Of Inventors Fellows
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Rice News | December 16, 2014ichards-Kortum is the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering. She is director of both Beyond Traditional Borders and Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health Technologies and oversees the Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging Laboratory. She is also a co-founder of the Day One Project to build an innovation […]
Nanomedicine Expert Joins Rice Faculty
Gang Bao | Via Rice News | December 15, 2014HOUSTON – (Dec. 15, 2014) – Gang Bao will bring a host of new expertise to Rice University’s part in the fight against cancer — and many other diseases — when he joins the faculty March 1. The highly regarded Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University […]
CCNY Study Brings Novel “Thync” Device Close to Fruition
Marom Bikson | Via CCNY | December 12, 2014To test a revolutionary device that has been the buzz of the scientific world in recent weeks, the startup Thync turned to City College of New York biomedical engineering Professor Marom Bikson. At his world-class neuromodulation lab in the Grove School of Engineering, Professor Bikson led a study that validated if the revolutionary device could […]
Two McCormick Professors Named AAAS Fellows | News | Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering
Igal Szleifer | Via Northwestern | December 12, 2014Igal Szleifer, the Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering in McCormick. Szleifer was chosen for his distinguished contributions to the field of biomaterials and biointerfaces, particularly for theoretical modeling of molecular organization and biorelated function in polymer modified surfaces.
LeDuc Aims to Improve Global Health
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon | December 11, 2014Bioengineers have a distinct opportunity to impact global health beyond disease, according to an article published in Science Translational Medicine. Written by experts from six different continents, the article’s lead author is Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip LeDuc, a professor of mechancial engineering. Although biomedical engineers have a history of addressing human health issues in terms […]
Novel Computational Modeling, GI Tract Microorganisms
Arul Jayaraman | Via Texas A&M | December 11, 2014Dr. Arul Jayaraman, professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Ray B. Nesbitt Professorship, has collaborated with researchers from Tufts University School of Engineering in the computational evaluation of gastrointestinal (GI) tract microorganism function. The journal, Nature Communications, published the findings in a November 20 edition. The prediction and identification […]
Prof. Vunjak-Novakovic Named AAAS Fellow
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Columbia | December 9, 2014Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of medical sciences (in Medicine) at Columbia University, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “for distinguishing contributions to the field of tissue engineering, particularly by developing functional human tissues for regenerative medicine, stem cell […]
Memorial Service for Professor David Mountain
David Mountain | Via Boston U. | December 9, 2014A memorial service for the late Professor David Mountain (BME) will be held this Friday, December 12, from 3 to 4 pm in Room B01 of the Life Sciences and Engineering Building at 24 Cummington Mall. All friends, colleagues and students of Professor Mountain are invited. For further information, please contact BME Department Chair and […]
Creating Medical Devices with Dissolving Metal
William Wagner | Via Pitt Chronicle | December 8, 2014University of Pittsburgh researchers recently received another $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to continue a combined multi-university, private-industry effort to develop implantable medical devices made from biodegradable metals. Body-degradable metals—usually magnesium based—are not new, having been originally considered in the late 19th century. But, says Pitt’s William Wagner, deputy director of the project […]
Celebrate Professor Robert Kirsch’s New Appointment
Robert Kirsch | Via CWRU | December 8, 2014The campus community is invited to celebrate the appointment of biomedical engineering department chair Robert F. Kirsch as the Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor in Biomedical Engineering. A chairing ceremony will take place Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 4:30 p.m., in the Nord Atrium. Guests can RSVP to Angela-Lauren@case.edu.
Wolfgang Fink Named Da Vinci Fellow For 2015
Wolfgang Fink | Via Arizona Engineering | December 7, 2014Like many men of science, Wolfgang Fink works in diverse disciplines and enjoys eclectic avocations. He’s a physicist, an engineer, an educator, an inventor, a licensed helicopter pilot and a classically trained pianist. You might call him a Renaissance man. Fink, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering and inaugural Edward & […]
Golden Door Award from the International Institute of New England Awarded
Omid Farokhzad | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | December 4, 2014Omid Farokhzad, MD, director of the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at BWH, has been awarded the Golden Door Award from the International Institute of New England for his innovations in nanotechnology that have made considerable impacts on patients and the economy. Farokhzad has developed numerous nanotechnologies for medical applications and brought targeted nanoparticles from discovery to human clinical trials. In […]
World’s Fastest 2-D Camera May Enable New Scientific Discoveries
Lihong Wang | Via Wash. U in St. Louis | December 3, 2014A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world’s fastest receive-only 2-D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second. That’s orders of magnitude faster than any current receive-only […]
George Georgiou Receives $1.7M Grant To Help The Immune System Eliminate Cancer Cells
George Georgiou | Via U. Texas at Austin | December 2, 2014Professor George Georgiou has received $1.7 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) for the development of a therapeutic enzyme to help the body’s immune system eliminate cancer cells. Certain cancer cells survive by keeping the immune system from recognizing and eliminating them through an immunosuppressive molecule called Kyn. […]