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Sakiyama-Elbert Elected Fellow of Biomedical Engineering Society
Shelly Sakiyama-Elber | Via Washington University in St. Louis | August 15, 2013Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD, has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society Class of 2013 Fellows. Sakiyama-Elbert, professor and associate chair of biomedical engineering, was one of seven elected to the class. Fellows are selected for demonstrating exceptional achievements and experience in the biomedical engineering field and for their membership and participation in the society. She […]
Dr. Judit Puskas leads Advanced Materials in Healthcare Conference
Judit Puskas | Via University of Akron | August 15, 2013Dr. Judit E. Puskas, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Polymer Science, Integrated Bioscience and Chemistry, has led a distinguished group to develop the Advanced Materials in Healthcare Conference. The conference will be held Oct. 7, 2013 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland and is part of the American […]
USC Viterbi Researchers receive NSF EFRI Grant
Ellis Meng | Via University of Southern California Engineering | August 13, 2013Three USC Viterbi engineers have received a prestigious $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation for a joint research project on a wireless, multi-sensor system for the early detection of shunt malfunctions in people with excessive brain fluid. “I’m pretty thrilled to win this,” said principal investigator Dr. Ellis Meng, an associate professor in biomedical […]
Organs-on-chips Evaluate Therapies for Lethal Radiation Exposure
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard Gazette | August 12, 2013A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has received a $5.6 million grant from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use its organs-on-chips technology to test human physiological responses to radiation and evaluate drugs designed to counter those effects. The effort will also be supported by […]
Can We Eliminate Animals from Medical Research?
Donald Ingber | Via PBS | August 7, 2013Deep in a lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Dr. Donald Ingber has reconstructed a human lung. It absorbs oxygen like a normal human lung. It also transmits that oxygen to blood cells flowing beneath. White blood cells flock to foreign bodies that try to infect its tissue, surrounding […]
Throbbing Pain isn’t a Matter of the Heart, UF Researchers Find
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF News | August 6, 2013Throbbing pain may pound like a heartbeat, but University of Florida scientists have discovered the sensation is all in your head, or more precisely, in your brain waves. The finding could drastically change how researchers look for therapies that can ease pain, said Dr. Andrew Ahn, a neurologist at the UF College of Medicine, a […]
Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partnership Program at Pitt Invests $400,000 in Four Medical Technologies
Pratap Khanwilkar | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | August 5, 2013Fighting infection post-surgery with an antibiotic gel; developing a meniscus implant for temporomandibular joint (TMJ) patients; treating an overactive bladder through foot stimulation, and attacking skin cancer with a microneedle bandage were the latest innovative medical technologies selected for funding through the Wallace H Coulter Translational Research Partners II (TPII) Program (Coulter Program) this July […]
A Metastasis ‘Magnet’ for Early Cancer Diagnosis
Lonnie Shea | Via Science in Society | August 1, 2013Attraction is commonplace: we are attracted to a significant other, certain metals are attracted to magnets, and moths are attracted to flames. In some instances, attraction is not preferred, especially in the case of cancer. Primary tumors initially form in a host organ, and cancerous cells are eventually attracted to other organs in the body, […]
Bones, Made to Order
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Nautilus | August 1, 2013Bones can be broken, made from synthetic materials, or carved from other bones in our body. But grow new bones? That just doesn’t happen. Until now. Scientists at Columbia University have shown they can make bones to order. “Tissue engineers,” those working to grow new organs, including the heart, from stem cells, have been operating […]
Improving Heat Removal Qualities of Graphene
Ashok Mulchandani | Via UC Riverside | July 31, 2013Three Bourns College of Engineering professors at the University of California, Riverside have received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to further study the thermal properties of graphene, which is expected to lead to new approaches for the removal of heat from advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. Alexander A. Balandin, a professor […]
Klapperich Demos Power-Free RNA Extraction Device
Catherine Klapperich | Via BU Today | July 30, 2013While the availability of antiretroviral therapy has become more widespread for HIV- positive patients in resource-limited countries, few of these patients are monitored using viral load testing to determine how their treatment is progressing. Monitoring involves periodic measurements based on analyzing RNA extracted from blood samples, a procedure that requires the kind of infrastructure that […]
J.H. David Wu Gives Plenary Lecture on Bacterium’s Potential for Producing Biofuels
J.H. David Wu | Via University of Rochester | July 30, 2013Clostridium thermocellum is an anaerobic bacterium. It thrives at extremely high temperatures. And it has a remarkable ability to convert plant cellulose into ethanol, hydrogen and other chemical feedstocks, which is why researchers like J.H. David Wu, professor of Chemical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering, are intensely interested in this bacterium’s potential for producing biofuels. […]
Jay D. Miller Appointed Chief Executive Officer
Jay D. Miller | Via PR Newswire | July 29, 2013IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) (“IMRIS” or the “Company”) today announced that Jay D. Miller, the company’s current President and COO, will also become the CEO of IMRIS Inc., effective August 1, 2013. Chairman and CEO David Graves will continue as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. “IMRIS has grown […]
Giving Till it Hurts: An Interview with Barbara Oakley
Barbara Oakley | Via Foundation for Economic Education | July 29, 2013Barbara Oakley is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. She has recently shaken up the academic community and the popular press by suggesting that there are limits to being a do-gooder, and that an inability to […]
Grande-Allen Named Bioengineering Society Fellow
Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | July 29, 2013Jane Grande-Allen has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Class of 2013 Fellows for her contributions to the field through investigations into the mechanics of heart-valve disease. Grande-Allen, a professor of bioengineering, joined the Rice faculty in 2003. She directs the Integrative Matrix Mechanics Lab at the BioScience Research Collaborative.
Inaugural Arthur L. Kelly Prizes Honor Faculty Members
Ka Yee Christina Lee | Via University of Chicago News | July 26, 2013Professors Ka Yee Lee and John Frederick are the first recipients of the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Faculty Service in the Physical Sciences Division. The annual prize recognizes University of Chicago faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the division in addition to their teaching and research. The prize was awarded at […]
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Artificial Cells To Study Effects of Molecular Crowding on Gene Expression
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | July 22, 2013The interior of a living cell is a crowded place, with proteins and other macromolecules packed tightly together. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has approximated this molecular crowding in an artificial cellular system and found that tight quarters help the process of gene expression, especially when other conditions are less than ideal. […]
Dr. Bruce Wheeler Elected as BMES Fellow
Bruce Wheeler | Via University of Florida | July 22, 2013Congratulations to Professor Bruce Wheeler on his election as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! BMES Fellow is a distinction reserved for only a few select BMES members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical engineering, and a record of membership and participation in the Society. Only seven Fellows were […]
Pitt’s Dr. William Wagner to Receive 2013 Senior Scientist Award from TERMIS-AM
William Wagner | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | July 22, 2013William Wagner, PhD will receive the 2013 Senior Scientist Award during the 2013 Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-AM) conference this November in Atlanta. Dr. Wagner is Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at Pitt. He is a tremendous colleague and outstanding scholar, as […]
Searching for Meaningful Markers of Aging
Trey Ideker | Via New York Times | July 22, 2013Don’t look to online calculators of “biological age” for an answer. Those focus mainly on risk factors for diseases, and say little about normal aging, the slow, mysterious process that turns children to codgers. In fact, scientists are still hunting for biological markers of age that reliably register how fast the process is unfolding. Seemingly […]