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Fellowbook News

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.

 

 

Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds

Russ Altman | Via New York Times | March 6, 2013

Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration’s warning system. Multimedia Using automated software tools to examine […]

UCF Professor, Researcher Recognized for Engineering Excellence

Sudipta Seal | Via UCF Today | March 6, 2013

University of Central Florida professor was awarded for his outstanding contribution to engineering during the 2013 Central Florida Engineers Week Awards Banquet. Sudipta Seal, an engineering professor and director of the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and Nanoscience Technology Center at UCF, was the recipient of the Technical Excellence award for Academia. Seal was […]

New Material Developed at Texas A&M Could Improve Ultrasound Technology

Vladislav V. Yakovlev | Via Texas A&M Engineering | March 6, 2013

Ultrasound technology could soon experience a significant upgrade that would enable it to produce high-quality, high-resolution images thanks to the development of a new key material by a team of researchers that includes a professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The material, which converts ultrasound waves into optical signals that can be […]

Sean Kirkpatrick Named SPIE Felllow

Sean J. Kirkpatrick | Via Michigan Tech | March 5, 2013

Sean Kirkpatrick, chair of biomedical engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.  He is one of 69 new Fellows announced by SPIE on Monday, March 4. Kirkpatrick was chosen for his achievements in theory and application of laser speckle in biomedical fields.  In a news release announcing the […]

Palecek to Receive PNAS Paper Honor

Sean Palecek | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | March 4, 2013

During the National Academy of Sciences annual meeting awards ceremony, April 28, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Sean Palecek will receive the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 Cozzarelli Prize. This prize recognizes Palecek’s PNAS paper, “Robust cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells via temporal modulation of canonical […]

International Consortium Builds ‘Google Map’ of Human Metabolism

Bernhard Palsson | Via UC San Diego News Center | March 4, 2013

Building on earlier pioneering work by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, an international consortium of university researchers has produced the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of human metabolism to date. Scientists could use the model, known as Recon 2, to identify causes of and new treatments for diseases like cancer, diabetes and even […]

What Causes Fractures in Healthy Bones

Deepak Vashishth | Via The Times of India | March 4, 2013

The findings by engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead to new strategies and therapeutics for fighting osteoporosis and lowering the risk of bone fracture. Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the study details how fractures in healthy bones begin with the creation of incredibly tiny holes, each measuring only about 500 […]

Bone Marrow Cells, Synthetic Scaffold Used in Bladder Regeneration

Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern Engineering | March 1, 2013

For patients suffering from spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect in the United States, bladder dysfunction is common. Surgery is often considered the best treatment, but it comes with a host of complications, and today’s bladder tissue engineering strategies are unable to sufficiently reform bladder tissue without causing other problems. In a new […]

Researchers Make Science Fiction Reality with Brain Controlled Prosthetics

Robert Kirsch | Via The Observer | March 1, 2013

Last May, news broke that the world was speeding into the realm of science fiction. Cathy Hutchinson, a woman left paralyzed in all four limbs due to a stroke, was able to drink a bottle of coffee using a robotic arm simply by imagining the action. Directed solely by Hutchinson’s thoughts, the robot gave Hutchinson […]

Modified Bacteria Turn Waste into Fat for Fuel

Ka-Yiu San | Via Rice University News | February 28, 2013

“Green” chemistry developed at Rice University is at the center of a new government effort to turn plant waste into fatty acids, and then into fuel. The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture project to develop a new generation of renewable energy and bio-based […]

Changing Shape Makes Chemotherapy Drugs Better at Targeting Cancer Cells

Samir Mitragotri | Via UCSB Convergence | February 27, 2013

Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped made them up to 10,000 times more effective at targeting and delivering anti-cancer drugs to breast cancer cells. Their findings could have a game-changing impact on the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapies and reducing […]

Rodgers, Mourikis and McBride Earn Engineering Council Awards

Victor Rodgers | Via UCR Engineering | February 27, 2013

Professor and Chair of Bioengineering Victor G. J. Rodgers, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Anastasios Mourikis, and bioengineering Ph.D. student Devin McBride have been recognized by the Orange County Engineering Council with the organization’s 2013 Distinguished Engineering Educator and Outstanding Engineering Student awards. The awards were presented during the National Engineers’ Week Awards Banquet held […]

Lung-on-a-Chip Wins Prize

Donald Ingber | Via Harvard Gazette | February 26, 2013

Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber received the NC3Rs 3Rs Prize from the U.K.’s National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for his innovative Lung-on-a-Chip — a microdevice lined by human cells that recapitulates complex functions of the living lung. “We believe that our human breathing Lung-on-a-Chip, and other organ […]

Two Engineers Among UW-Madison Romnes Faculty Fellowship Recipients

Eric V. Shusta | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | February 26, 2013

Two engineering faculty are among eight promising young UW-Madison faculty who have been honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships. The Romnes awards recognize exceptional faculty members who have earned tenure within the last four years. Selected by a Graduate School committee, winners receive an unrestricted $50,000 award for research, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation […]

Predicting cancer’s response to therapy | Research News @ Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt University

Thomas E. Yankeelov | Via Vanderbilt News | February 24, 2013

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is increasingly used in women with locally advanced breast cancer before surgical treatment. Early assessment of response to NAC would allow clinicians to identify patients who are not responding and adjust their therapy. Thomas Yankeelov, Ph.D., Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and colleagues obtained two types of magnetic resonance imaging – diffusion-weighted […]

Bayly, Team Get $2.25 Million Grant to Study Brain Mechanics

Philip V. Bayly | Via Washington University in Saint Louis Newsroom | February 22, 2013

Washington University in St. Louis engineering researchers have received a five-year $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and treatment. Philip Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, is principal […]

McShane Receives NIH Award

Michael J. McShane | Via Texas A&M University | February 22, 2013

Dr. Mike McShane, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award.   McShane, along with Natalie Ann Wisniewski of PROFUSA Inc., are working to develop highly miniaturized, injectable, sensors for continuous and simultaneous monitoring of […]

Building a Biochemistry Lab on a Chip

Rashid Bashir | Via University of Illinois ECE | February 21, 2013

Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening. Using micro-fabrication techniques and incorporating a unique design of transistor-based heating, researchers at the University of Illinois are further advancing the use of silicon transistor and electronics into chemistry and biology for point-of-care diagnostics. Lab-on-a-chip […]

Case Western Reserve University Joins BrainGate Clinical Trial

Robert Kirsch | Via Case Western Reserve University | February 21, 2013

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and its primary affiliate University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin testing the first of two technologies they plan to combine in a new effort to enable people with paralysis to regain some control of their arms and hands. The physicians and scientists are now enrolling participants in […]

Discovery Spurred by Unique Twist of Fate

Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | February 20, 2013

Antibiotic study inspires new pathways in heart-valve research As people age, or as a result of poor nutrition, heart valves can become damaged by the accumulation of calcium deposits within the tissue. This calcification causes a thickening and hardening of the tissue to the point that it limits normal blood flow. Bioengineering researchers in Rice […]