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Omega 3 Supplements Could Offer Osteoarthritis Treatment Benefits
Farshid Guilak | Via Arthritis Research UK | July 11, 2014Scientists in the US have determined that omega-3 consumption could help to improve the joint health of patients with osteoarthritis. Carried out by Duke University in North Carolina, the study – published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases – has shed further light on the established relationship between obesity and arthritis, suggesting that unhealthy […]
Tracking Osteoarthritis with Nanoparticles
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston University | July 10, 2014A chronic disease afflicting more than 27 million Americans and 630 million worldwide, osteoarthritis occurs as the protective cartilage coating on joints in the knees, hips and other parts of the body degrades. No cure for osteoarthritis exists, but treatments can slow its progression, reduce pain and restore joint functioning. Now a team of researchers […]
UA National Society of Black Engineers Wins Robotics Contest
Wolfgang Fink | Via University of Arizona | July 9, 2014Team’s ingenious use of bicycle dynamo light principle improves gas pipeline inspection robots. College students often have several months to prepare for national competitions. The UA chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, or NSBE, had only two — and the team went on to win the 2014 NSBE Undergraduate Technical Research Competition in […]
Beyond Bacteria
James Collins | Via Boston University | July 7, 2014At the heart of synthetic biology is the assembly of genetic components into “circuits” that perform desired operations in living cells, with the long-term goal of empowering these cells to solve critical problems in healthcare, energy, the environment and other domains, from cancer treatment to toxic waste cleanup. While much of this work is done […]
Peppas Wins the 2014 Giulio Natta Medal in Chemical Engineering
Nicholas Peppas | Via University of Texas at Austin | July 5, 2014Professor Nicholas Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has won the 2014 Giulio Natta Medal in Chemical Engineering from the Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta” CMIC of the Politecnico Di Milano.The Giulio Natta Medal is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to […]
Salamone Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Joseph Salamone | Via University of Texas at Austin | July 2, 2014Joe Salamone, Ph.D., an adjunct professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the department’s External Advisory Committee, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Salamone is a leading pioneer in the development of novel biomaterials for ophthalmology and for wound care, having commercialized 45 products in […]
Carnegie Mellon’s Philip Leduc Selected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon | July 2, 2014Carnegie Mellon University Mechanical Engineering Professor Philip LeDuc has been selected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). ASME is an international society with more than 140,000 members around the world. Its goal is to serve the global community through advancing and applying engineering principals to the problems that face our world […]
Advancing Medicine, Layer by Layer
Paula Hammond | Via Phys Org | July 2, 2014Personalized cancer treatments and better bone implants could grow from techniques demonstrated by graduate students Stephen W. Morton and Nisarg J. Shah, who are both working in chemical engineering professor Paula Hammond’s lab at MIT. Morton’s work focuses on developing drug-carrying nanoparticles to target hard-to-treat cancers—such as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)—while Shah develops coatings that […]
Streamlining Engineering Product Development
Arthur Rosenthal | Via Boston University | July 1, 2014When researching anatomical data to develop new biomedical devices, engineers have no universally accepted, reliable resource to rapidly and consistently obtain the information they need. So Benjamin Hertz and Bhavesh Patel, two students in BE 700, Advanced Biomedical Design and Development, have proposed a solution: a software tool called “Interactive Virtual Human” that provides an […]
Clot-building Nanoparticles Raise Survival Rate Following Blast Trauma
Erin Lavik | Via Case Think | July 1, 2014CLEVELAND—A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma. In preclinical tests led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher, the artificial platelets, called “hemostatic nanoparticles,” when injected after blast […]
Nicholas Peppas Named a Highly Cited Researcher
Nicholas Peppas | Via University of Texas at Austin | June 26, 2014Nicholas Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, has been included in the 2014 Thomas Reuters’ list of Highly Cited Researchers. This list recognizes many of the world’s leading scientific minds and is comprised of more than 3,200 researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. Peppas was one of seven Cockrell […]
Robert Langer Wins Kyoto Prize
Robert Langer | Via Boston Globe - Science | June 20, 2014One of the Boston area’s most decorated scientists has won yet another major award: Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the $500,000 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology. The Kyoto Prize, announced on Friday in Japan, is a prestigious award from the non-profit Inamori Foundation, which honors significant scientific, […]
Herbert Voigt Receives Fulbright Award
Herbert Voigt | Via Fulbright | June 20, 2014Herbert F. Voigt, Biomedical Engineering Professor at Boston University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to work at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) during the 2014-2015 academic year, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. Voigt will help to crystalize a new biomedical […]
Cwru Engineer to Grow Replacement Tissue for Torn Rotator Cuffs
Ozan Akkus | Via Case Western | June 19, 2014CLEVELAND—A Case Western Reserve University engineer has won a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to grow replacement rotator cuffs and other large tendon groups to help heal injured soldiers and athletes, accident victims and an aging population that wants to remain active. Ozan Akkus, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has already […]
Rory Cooper Receives Robotics Industry’s Highest Award
Rory Cooper | Via Pitt Chronicle | June 17, 2014University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor Rory Cooper has been awarded the Engelberger Robotics Award, the robotics industry’s highest honor. Cooper, FISA/Paralyzed Veterans of America Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor within Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, received the 2014 Engelberger Award for Application of robotic technology on June 2 in Munich, Germany, during a […]
A Malignant ‘switch’ in Breast Cancer
David Mooney | Via Harvard Gazette | June 16, 2014A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, which are frequently involved in breast cancer. Dense mammary tissue has long been […]
Advancing Safety in Medical Technology Awards Best Research Paper to Binseng Wang
Binseng Wang | Via AAMI | June 12, 2014The Editorial Board of AAMI’s research journal, Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, selects three published submissions as outstanding. BI&T Best Research Paper: 2014: “An Estimate of Patient Incidents Caused by Medical Equipment Maintenance Omissions” by Binseng Wang, Torgeir Rui, and Salil Balar. The authors are all with Aramark Healthcare Technologies.
ALung Technologies Recipient of Gold Award at Medical Design Excellence Awards
William Federspiel | Via Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | June 12, 2014Pittsburgh, PA (June 12, 2014) – ALung Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of low-flow extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) technologies for treating patients with acute respiratory failure, announced today that the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (RAS) has won the Gold Award in the Critical-Care and Emergency Medicine Category of the 17th Annual Medical Design Excellence […]
Eric Hoffman Receives 2014 Rodarte Award
Eric Hoffman | Via University of Iowa | June 5, 2014Eric A. Hoffman, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering, and medicine, received the 2014 Joseph R. RodarteAward for Scientific Distinction May 19 at the annual international meeting of the American Thoracic Society (ATS). The award is the highest level of distinction awarded by the Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly of the ATS. Hoffman has spent the […]
Shekhar Garde Named Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Shekhar Garde | Via RPI | June 5, 2014Troy, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today named Shekhar Garde as dean of the School of Engineering. The appointment is effective July 1. Garde, the Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chaired Professor in Engineering at Rensselaer, has served since 2007 as head of the university’s Howard. P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering […]