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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 […]
George Georgiou Named Inventor Of The Year
George Georgiou | Via U. Texas at Austin | November 13, 2014George Georgiou, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named Inventor of the Year by the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization. The award recognizes Georgiou for commercializing industry-changing technologies, preparing students to follow in his footsteps and proving that What Starts Here Changes the World. In 2013, Nature Biotechnology named Georgiou one of the world’s […]
Dr. Schmidt receives AIChE Women’s Initiatives Committee’s Mentorship Excellence Award
Christine Schmidt | Via U. of Florida | November 13, 2014Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, the Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received the Women’s Initiatives Committee’s (WIC) Mentorship Excellence Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award “recognizes women faculty who have contributed to the development of the next generation of […]
5 Questions With Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen | Via NC State News | November 13, 2014When Dean Kamen was an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, his older brother — a medical student at Harvard — talked about what a shame it was that outpatients had to come into the hospital to receive infusions of intravenous medicine. Wouldn’t it be better if there were some device that could […]
Sang Yup Lee Appointed Honorary Professor
Sang Yup Lee | Via KAIST | November 13, 2014Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST has been appointed an honorary professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). Founded in 1958, BUCT is one of the outstanding universities in mainland China, especially in chemistry studies. In addition to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), […]
With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014Tara is based on the work of two researchers: Columbia professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and University of Toronto professor Milica Radisic. They met several years ago at Bob Langer’s lab at MIT and have since worked together to turn stem cells into mature heart tissue that can be tested as if it were an adult heart. […]
Fulbright Scholar Awards
Roger Narayan | Via NC State | November 12, 2014Biomedical engineer Roger Narayan recently completed his Fulbright project at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, where he lectured, taught a graduate course on biomaterials and collaborated on joint research activities. The core Fulbright Scholar Program attracts some 800 U.S. faculty and professionals each year to 140 countries to […]
With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014It’s been pretty clear for some time that there’s a big need to improve the efficiency of drug R&D. By industry’s count, drugs cost over $1 billion to develop, and most of them fail. A big reason why is the preclinical studies in petri dishes and animals don’t accurately predict how a drug will behave […]