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Bayly, Team Get $2.25 Million Grant to Study Brain Mechanics
Philip V. Bayly | Via Washington University in Saint Louis Newsroom | February 22, 2013Washington 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, 2013Dr. 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, 2013Miniaturized 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, 2013Researchers 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, 2013Antibiotic 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 […]
UTSA’s C. Mauli Agrawal Awarded for Service in Biomaterials Field
C. Mauli Agrawal | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | February 19, 2013C. Mauli Agrawal, the David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair for the Dean of Engineering and Peter Flawn Professor in Biomedical Engineering at UTSA, has been selected as the sole recipient of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) 2013 Award for Service. The award honors his significant service to the SFB in establishing, developing, maintaining and […]
Joseph DeSimone: Liberal Arts Education Shapes Startup Founders
Joseph DeSimone | Via Materials Views | February 19, 2013From creating a manufacturing process for making plastics using supercritical carbon dioxide to his latest biomedical venture, Liquidia Technologies, professor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University has a long and distinguished career as an entrepreneur, as well as a scientist. But what gives an entrepreneur […]
Engineering Cells for More Efficient Biofuel Production
Gregory Stephanopoulos | Via MIT | February 17, 2013In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than ethanol, but they are also more compatible with existing gasoline-based infrastructure. For isobutanol to become practical, however, scientists need a way to reliably produce huge quantities of it from renewable sources. […]
Cato T. Laurencin Wins 2012 AAAS Mentor Award
Cato T. Laurencin | Via UConn Today | February 15, 2013The 2012 AAAS Mentor Award will be presented to Cato T. Laurencin “for his transformative impact and scientific contributions toward mentoring students in the field of biomedical engineering.” He will receive the award during a 15 February ceremony at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
BMES Members Elected to National Academy of Engineers
Raphael Lee | Via Biomedical Engineering Society | February 15, 2013Six Biomedical Engineering Society members were elected to the National Academy of Engineering: James Anderson, Dawn Bonnell, Raphael Lee, Kam Leong, Richard Murray and Stephen Quake. NAE elected 69 new members and 11 foreign associates total, NAE President Charles M. Vest announced this week. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,250 and the number […]
Carbon Nanotubes Help Grow Beating Heart Tissue
Ali Khademhosseini | Via American Chemical Society | February 14, 2013Tissue Engineering: New nanotube-based scaffold mimics heart tissue’s electrical and mechanical properties Heart attacks kill muscle cells called cardiomyocytes, leaving behind tissue damage. If scientists could grow cardiac tissue in the lab, they could perhaps graft patches of healthy tissue onto a patient’s damaged heart. A new carbon nanotube-studded hydrogel acts as a scaffold for […]
CSE’s Clare Rimnac receives ORS Women’s Leadership Award!
Clare Rimnac | Via Case Engineering | February 12, 2013The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) recently awarded Clare Rimnac, associate dean of research and the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, with the 2013 ORS Women’s Leadership Forum Award. The ORS Women’s Leadership Forum seeks to mentor, foster, encourage and inspire women in orthopaedic research at all stages of their careers, and advise and support […]
Bionic Muscles Toughen Up
Ali Khademhosseini | Via MIT Technology Review | February 11, 2013Hybrid materials made of cardiac cells and carbon nanotubes might patch damaged hearts and provide muscle for robots made of living tissues. The tissues of the heart are mechanically tough and electrically conductive, and they keep a strong, rhythmic beat—properties that are tough to mimic in the lab. But a new hybrid material that combines […]
New Sensor Screens Your Blood for Drugs in Real-Time
Hyongsok Soh | Via Healthline | February 10, 2013It’s every doctor’s dream—a small, wearable sensor that can monitor levels of, say, the heart drug digoxin in a patient’s blood, and make sure that he or she gets just the right amount of medication 24 hours a day. But the MEDIC biosensor, developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), can be […]
Distinguished University Professor James M. Anderson Named to National Academy of Engineering
James Anderson | Via Case School of Engineering | February 8, 2013Today James M. Anderson adds another honor to an already impressive list: membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The recognition comes a decade after Anderson won election to the Institute of Medicine, five years after he won election to the Association of American Physicians, and a year after he won election to the […]
National Academy of Engineering Elects 69 Members And 11 Foreign Associates
Raphael Lee | Via National Academy of Sciences | February 7, 2013The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 69 new members and 11 foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,250 and the number of foreign associates to 211. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. […]
Shu Chien Named San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering Chief Engineer
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | February 7, 2013At the 2011 National Medal of Science ceremony in which Shu Chien accepted his award, President Obama stressed the importance of encouraging young students to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. Chien, a UC San Diego professor of bioengineering and medicine and director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, echoed the sentiment: […]
Personalized Healthcare Will Revolutionize 21st Century Medicine, Says NJIT Professor
Atam P. Dhawan | Via New Jersey Institute of Technology | February 6, 2013A closer look at personalized or point-of-care healthcare was the focus of a recent international conference in India organized and chaired by NJIT Distinguished Professor Atam Dhawan. The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) International Special Topic Conference in point-of-care healthcare technologies, broadcast around the world, focused on topics ranging from 21st century […]
Jay Keasling: Using Microbes to Create the Next Generation of Fuel
Jay Keasling | Via CNN | February 5, 2013Editor’s Note: The Next List will air a full 30min profile of synthetic biologist Jay Keasling this Sunday, Feb. 10th, at 2:30PM ET (all-new time!) only on CNN. Quotable Jay Keasling: “The carpets, the paint on the walls, the ceiling tiles, we have the potential to produce all of these products from sugar.” Who is […]
Two Named Faculty Fellows in Provost’s Office
Shelly Sakiyama-Elber | Via Washington University in St. Louis | February 4, 2013Two faculty members have been named Faculty Fellows in the Office of the Provost by Edward S. Macias, PhD, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD, professor and associate chair of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering, and Heather Corcoran, MFA, associate professor of communication design in the Sam Fox […]