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Sports Science, Featuring WSU’s Cynthia Bir, Wins Award at 34th Annual Sports Emmys
Cynthia A. Bir | Via Wayne State University Engineering | May 10, 2013ESPN Sport Science, the popular Emmy-winning television series featuring Wayne State University Professor of Biomedical Engineering Cynthia Bir, won a Sports Emmy Award for Best New Approach on May 7, 2013. Bir was listed as a producer on the nomination.
New EPIC Studio Will Equip ENG Students with Design Skills
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | May 10, 2013By many accounts, manufacturing is making a comeback in the United States. US manufacturers have added 500,000 new workers since the end of 2009, energy costs have dropped, and labor costs in competing countries such as China and India have been inching upward. President Barack Obama has been pushing to expand advanced manufacturing, most recently […]
Alyssa Panitch Appointed Leslie A. Geddes Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Alyssa Panitch | Via Purdue University | May 10, 2013The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved Alyssa Panitch as the Leslie A. Geddes Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Panitch came to Purdue in 2006 as an associate professor of biomedical engineering. She has been associate head of research for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue since 2009. Prior to coming to Purdue, she […]
Six Collaborations Win IBB Innovation Awards
George N. Bennett | Via Rice University News | May 9, 2013Rice University’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) this week announced the winners of both the 2012-2013 Hamill Awards, which promote collaboration among Rice faculty, and the 2012-2013 IBB Medical Innovations Awards, which promote collaborations between faculty at Rice and institutions in the Texas Medical Center. The awards will be formally presented at IBB’s annual […]
Jin Kang Named Jammer Professor of Electrical Engineering
Jin U. Kang | Via Johns Hopkins University Engineering | May 9, 2013Jin U. Kang, chair and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named the Jacob Suter Jammer Professor of Electrical Engineering as of Jan. 1, 2013. Kang’s research focuses on fiber optic devices and biophotonics for applications in medicine and sensing. Much of his recent research emphasizes the development of […]
Symposium Promotes Biotechnology Teaching
Lonnie Shea | Via Northwestern University | May 8, 2013Northwestern, Baxter International, Lindblom Academy sponsor hands-on summer teacher workshops Bringing today’s science into Chicago classrooms is the driving goal of a summer series of professional development workshops in biotechnology that kicks off Tuesday, May 14 with a symposium on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. The May 14 event – “Bringing Biotech from the Bench to […]
Bone Grafting — Is There Another Way?
Sachin Mamidwar | Via Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | May 7, 2013When a bone graft is performed, surgeons use allografts from dead bodies, autografts from the patient himself, and occasionally from the bone of an animal, or xenografts. Each of these pose a certain amount of risk, which is why many companies are looking for ways around it, producing new materials in a laboratory setting that […]
Pioneering Polymer Research: Delaware Bio Selects UD’s Kiick to Receive Academic Research Award
Kristi Kiick | Via University of Delaware | May 6, 2013University of Delaware professor Kristi Kiick is currently developing a range of novel hydrogels in order to improve the treatment of cardiovascular conditions as well as the delivery of antibodies to protect against toxins. The polymers that comprise the hydrogels are engineered to regulate the rate of drug delivery and to protect the therapeutic molecules […]
Society for Biological Engineering Chair Receives John Fritz Medal
Gregory Stephanopoulos | Via AIChE | May 6, 2013The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) has announced that its chair, Professor Gregory Stephanopoulos of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has received the 2013 John Fritz Medal. The award, presented by the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), recognizes Stephanopoulos’ defining contributions to the field of metabolic engineering and the bio-based economy. Many consider […]
Mining Consumers’ Web Searches Can Reveal Unreported Side Effects of Drugs, Stanford Researchers Say
Russ Altman | Via Stanford School of Medicine | May 6, 2013Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Microsoft Research have revealed that the Internet search history of consumers can yield information on the unreported side effects of drugs or drug combinations. By analyzing 12 months of search history from 6 million Internet users who consented to share anonymized logs of their Web searches […]
How the Brain Loses and Regains Consciousness
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | May 4, 2013Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients. Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of consciousness. In a new study that […]
Kristi Anseth Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | May 2, 2013Our congratulations to Kristi Anseth, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Kristi, who is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, now joins a very select group of scientists/engineers (approximately 15) who are members of all three branches of the National Academies.
Two CU-Boulder Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | May 1, 2013Two University of Colorado Boulder professors have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The new members are Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth of the chemical and biological engineering department and Professor Henry Kapteyn of the physics department. […]
Distinguished Professor Sang-Yup Lee Received 2013 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award
Sang Yup Lee | Via Kaist | April 30, 2013Previous award winners are world-renowned scholars of biochemical engineering including James Bailey, Michael Shuler and Daniel Wang KAIST Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department’s Professor Sang-Yup Lee has been selected to receive the 2013 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award. The award ceremony will take place this June at the International Biochemical and Molecular Engineering conference in Beijing, […]
‘Super-Resolution’ Microscope Possible for Nanostructures
Ji-Xin Cheng | Via Purdue University | April 29, 2013Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures and molecules using a new type of super-resolution optical microscopy that does not require fluorescent dyes, representing a practical tool for biomedical and nanotechnology research. “Super-resolution optical microscopy has opened a new window into the nanoscopic world,” said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering […]
Patterned Hearts
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | April 29, 2013A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is the first to report creating artificial heart tissue that closely mimics the functions of natural heart tissue through the use of human-based materials. Their work will advance how clinicians treat the damaging effects caused by heart disease, the leading cause of death in the […]
Battling Brain
Mingzhou Ding | Via National Academy of Engineering | April 28, 2013“Struggling to concentrate” isn’t just a saying. Engineers are now able to see the way two networks in the brain battle for control when you need to focus.
Adele Boskey, Ph.D., Honored With Symposium on Bone Disease Research
Adele Boskey | Via Hospital for Special Surgery | April 25, 2013Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will honor biomineralization and osteoporosis investigator Adele Boskey, Ph.D., at a symposium on the latest research in bone mineralization and its role in bone disease on Thursday, May 2. Dr. Boskey, Starr Chair in Mineralized Tissue Research, has investigated bone chemistry at HSS since 1970. Osteoporosis and other bone diseases […]
Dr. Mingzhou Ding Named UF Research Foundation Professor for 2013
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF Biomedical Engineering | April 25, 2013Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding who was one of thirty-four faculty named UF Research Foundation Professors for 2013! “The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.” Professor Ding’s research is focused on understanding the […]
Trey Ideker and Collaborators Release Cytoscape v3
Trey Ideker | Via UCSD Department of Medicine News | April 25, 2013On April 22, 2013, computational biologists and computer scientists at UC San Diego released version 3 of Cytoscape for general availability. Cytoscape is the leading open source visualization software platform supporting systems biology; it enables researchers to visualize molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrate them with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state and […]