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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. […]
Nancy L. Allbritton Named AAAS Fellow
Nancy Allbritton | Via NC State News | December 1, 2014Five North Carolina State University faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Nancy L. Allbritton, professor and chair of biomedical engineering, elected for invention and implementation of new tools for biomedical research and for development of miniaturized devices to enable more accurate disease diagnosis. They […]
Building a Paper Gene Circuit
James Collins | Via BU Engineering | December 1, 2014The first case of the Ebola outbreak currently ravaging West Africa appeared in Guinea in December 2013. But it wasn’t until March 22, 2014, that scientists finally confirmed the virus as Ebola. By that point, 49 people had already died. Why did it take so long? Partly because confirming the diagnosis required that epidemiologists fly from […]
Four Medical School Professors Elected Fellows Of Aaas
Russ Altman | Via Stanford | December 1, 2014Russ Altman, MD, PhD, professor of bioengineering, of genetics and of biomedical informatics research, was elected for contributions in the field of bioinformatics, particularly for analysis of targets for drug action and of the impact of human variation on drug responses. Altman, who holds the Kenneth Fong Professorship, is interested in the analysis of protein […]
Four Medical School Professors Elected Fellows Of AAAS
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir | Via Stanford | December 1, 2014Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor and chair of radiology and director of the Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection at Stanford, was elected for his work in multimodal molecular imaging of living subjects. In his work, Gambhir, who has a particular interest in cancer biology and gene therapy, combines advances in molecular and cell […]
UA Engineering Turns Smartphones Into Eye-Screening Tools
Wolfgang Fink | Via UA News | November 26, 2014University of Arizona researchers are developing technology that converts smartphones into powerful eye-examining instruments that could prevent millions of people from going blind. Wolfgang Fink, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, is principal investigator of a new project funded by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity program to […]
Professors Wang Selected as 2014 AAAS Fellow
Ge Wang | Via RPI | November 25, 2014Ge Wang is the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor of Engineering, the director of the Biomedical Imaging Center, and a member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer. In naming him a fellow, AAAS cited his “distinguished contributions to the field of biomedical imaging, particularly for X-ray computed tomography, optical molecular tomography, […]
Rensselaer Professor Garde Selected as 2014 AAAS Fellow
Shekhar Garde | Via RPI | November 25, 2014Shekhar Garde is dean of the School of Engineering at Rensselaer, and the Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chaired Professor in Engineering. In naming him a fellow, AAAS cited his “distinguished contributions to molecular-level understanding of water and hydrophobicity using modern theory and simulations, and for communicating science to children through the Molecularium Project.” […]
Trey Ideker Named AAAS Fellow
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | November 24, 2014Trey Ideker, a professor at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, was cited by AAAS for “distinguished contributions to the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, particularly in pioneering network research.” His research seeks to comprehensively map connections between the many genes and proteins in a cell and how these connections trigger or prevent disease. […]
AAAS Names Three U Faculty as Fellows
Sung Wan Kim | Via U. of Utah | November 24, 2014Sung Wan Kim, distinguished professor of pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry, was recognized “for distinguished contributions to our knowledge about biomaterials and polymeric drug delivery systems and the translation of discoveries into products.”
Tracking the Sandman
Patrick Purdon | Via Harvard | November 21, 2014Investigators at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a system to accurately track the dynamic process of falling asleep, something that has not been possible with existing techniques. In their report in the October issue of the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology, the research team described how combining key physiologic measurements with a […]
Shu Chien Receives U.C. San Diego Roger Revelle Medal
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | November 20, 2014San Diego, Calif., Nov. 20, 2014 — University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Shu Chien has received the Roger Revelle Medal from UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla with the citation: “Shu Chien is widely known as an exceptional researcher, instructor, mentor and citizen of the university and his professional community.” Chien received the […]
Artificial Retina Maker Second Sight More Than Doubles In Debut
Mark Humayun | Via CNBC | November 19, 2014Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc, a maker of artificial retinas designed to partially restore sight to the blind, more than doubled in their market debut. The stock touched a high of $22.45 on the Nasdaq on Wednesday, valuing the company at $777.3 million. Second Sight’s Argus II System – the world’s only approved […]
How Do We Make Batteries More Powerful, Cheaper and Safer?
Esther Takeuchi | Via Scientific American | November 18, 2014Electric vehicles, a modernized electrical grid and even smartphones would be little more than pipe dreams without the ability to store energy. More specifically, they rely on batteries, a centuries-old technology forced to mature ever more quickly to meet our growing demands for portable power. Progress, at least when it comes to technology, poses myriad […]