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AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.
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 […]
Rory Cooper Wins Engelberger Award
Rory Cooper | Via The Business Journals | May 29, 2014Rory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh professor and founder of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, is among three people who will receive the Engelberger Robotics Award June 2 in Germany. Cooper will receive the Engelberger Award for Application. The ceremony will be held with the joint 45 th International Symposium on Robotics and 8 th German […]
Researchers Use Light to Coax Stem Cells to Repair Teeth
David Mooney | Via Wyss Institute | May 28, 2014A Harvard-led team is the first to demonstrate the ability to use low-power light to trigger stem cells inside the body to regenerate tissue, an advance they reported in Science Translational Medicine. The research, led by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member David Mooney, Ph.D., lays the foundation for a host of clinical applications in restorative […]
Michael Sefton Honored with Gold Medal Award from Engineers Canada
Michael Sefton | Via Engineers Canada | May 23, 2014Canada’s engineering profession is proud to once again honour the accomplishments of remarkable professional engineers during the Engineers Canada Awards Gala on Saturday evening at the Hilton Saint John Hotel. The Gold Medal Award is the engineering profession’s highest honour, presented for achievement and distinction in engineering. This year’s Gold Medal Award recipient is Michael […]
Giorgio Elected Chair of Aimbe’s Academic Council | News | School of Engineering | Vanderbilt University
Todd Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt Engineering News | May 22, 2014Todd Giorgio, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) as its Academic Council Chair for 2014-2016. Giorgio was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the Academic Council. Giorgio has recently served as the chair of the Council of Chairs […]
Lifelike Heart Valve Model Will Aid Treatment
Michael Sacks | Via University of Texas at Austin News | May 21, 2014If heart valves were dial gauges, the aortic valve would be a car speedometer, says Michael Sacks, director of the ICES Center for Cardiovascular Simulation. Its anatomical features are straightforward, self-contained structures that can be replaced when diseased. But the mitral valve — which is responsible for receiving oxygenated blood from the lungs into the […]
Regenerative Medicine Improves Muscle Strength, Function in Leg Injuries
Stephen Badylak | Via PittChronicle | May 19, 2014Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were surgically implanted with material derived from a pig bladder, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Early findings from […]
U.S. FDA Approves ‘Star Wars’ Robotic Arm for Amputees
Dean Kamen | Via Reuters | May 9, 2014The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the “Star Wars” character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple, simultaneous movements, a huge advance over the metal hook currently in use. The FDA said on Friday it allowed the sale of the DEKA Arm System after reviewing […]