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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.
Four from MIT Win NIH Grants
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | September 13, 2012Brown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research. Four MIT faculty members have been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants designed to promote innovative biomedical research. The Institute’s recipients of these new NIH grants are Hidde Ploegh, professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute; Feng Zhang, assistant professor of […]
Keasling Wins Heinz Award
Jay Keasling | Via UC Berkeley Chemistry | September 12, 2012Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Jay Keasling, the Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor in Biochemical Engineering, has been named a recipient of an 18th Annual Heinz Award. Established by Teresa Heinz in 1993 to honor the memory of her late husband, U.S. Senator John Heinz, the Heinz Awards celebrate the accomplishments and spirit of the […]
Improved Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs Into Brain
Justin Hanes | Via Johns Hopkins Medicine | September 11, 2012The brain is a notoriously difficult organ to treat, but Johns Hopkins researchers report they are one step closer to having a drug-delivery system flexible enough to overcome some key challenges posed by brain cancer and perhaps other maladies affecting that organ. In a report published online on August 29 in Science Translational Medicine, the […]
New Biomedical Engineering Curriculum Responds to Industry’s Needs
Sean J. Kirkpatrick | Via Michigan Tech | September 11, 2012Biomedical engineers need to know engineering inside out. How knowledgeable do they need to be about biological sciences? They need to know at least as much about that fast-moving field too. The biomedical device and biotech industries are evolving so rapidly that it takes the latest engineering skills and a thorough understanding of cutting-edge cell […]
New Faculty Dr. Pratap Khanwilkar: Translating Research into Reality
Pratap Khanwilkar | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | September 10, 2012For the past twelve years while leading his company, MedQuest Products Inc. and acting as an officer of its successor WorldHeart Corp, Dr. Pratap Khanwilkar developed and maintained very productive research partnerships with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh. Those collegial experiences helped him decide to trade the mountains of the Wasatch Range for the […]
Jay D. Miller Joins IMRIS as President & COO
Jay D. Miller | Via IMRIS | September 7, 2012IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) (“IMRIS” or the “Company”) today announces the appointment of Jay Miller as President and COO, reporting directly to David Graves, Chairman & CEO, effective Monday, September 10, 2012. Mr. Miller has extensive technical and managerial experience in the medical device industry. Prior to joining IMRIS he was the President […]
Biomedical Engineering Head to Help Lead University Research Efforts
Jennifer Barton | Via UA@Work | September 5, 2012The inaugural head of the biomedical engineering department, Jennifer Barton, is adding yet another role to her growing list of distinguished contributions at the University of Arizona. She was recently appointed to the new position of associate vice president for research, a job that involves expanding collaborative research efforts campuswide and strengthening partnerships with the […]
Renowned Researcher to Join Biomedical Engineering Program
Leon D. Iasemidis | Via Louisiana Tech University News | September 4, 2012The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University is pleased to announce that Dr. Leon Iasemidis will join the biomedical engineering and rehabilitation science program this fall as the H.A. ‘Dusty’ Rhodes Eminent Scholar Chair. Iasemidis joins Louisiana Tech after several years at Arizona State University where he earned tenure as an associate […]
Pittsburgh Researchers Prepare for Space Surgery
James Antaki | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 4, 2012Before humans can take long expeditions to Mars and beyond, and even back and forth to the moon, one problem must be solved. In the weightlessness of space, an appendectomy, removal of a gall bladder, cuts or wounds, or even the pulling of a tooth would contaminate the spaceship with blood, tissue and bodily fluids. […]
Carnegie Mellon Project Could Make Surgery in Space Possible
George Pantalos | Via Trib Live | September 2, 2012The health of astronauts on space missions to Mars could hinge on research conducted along the banks of the Monongahela River. Biomedical engineering researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, with a colleague from the University of Louisville, are developing a device that would enable surgery in space — which isn’t currently possible, despite what science fiction […]
Fuel on the Farm
Sue Nokes | Via UK Now | September 1, 2012Sue Nokes and her colleagues in the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences can picture a day when farmers not only grow the crops needed for biofuels, but also do much of the processing on their own land. The Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering department chair leads a multidisciplinary team of UK researchers and […]
Cultivating Genius
Liping Tang | Via UT Arlington | September 1, 2012Ewin Tang’s classmates tend to overlook the slight, bespectacled youth sitting in the front row until he answers the professor’s queries—all correctly. Then they ask their own questions. “Who is this guy?” “Why is he here?” And always, “How old is he?” At 12, Ewin, the son of bioengineering Professor Liping Tang, is the youngest […]
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Ioannis V. Yannas
Ioannis V. Yannas | Via MIT MECHE | September 1, 2012A Lifetime of Biomaterials Engineering Achievement In 1969, Professor Ioannis V. Yannas was an expert on fibers and polymers at MIT when Dr. John F. Burke approached him with a request for help. A surgeon, Burke had made significant strides in burn treatment but was still missing a piece of the puzzle. “He wanted something […]
Marc Ostermeier: Flipping the Switch on Cancer
Marc Ostermeier | Via Johns Hopkins University Engineering | September 1, 2012Targeted cancer therapies are a kind of biological manhunt: they find and kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone, thus lessening the unpleasant and often dangerous side effects of cancer treatment. A research team led by Marc Ostermeier is turning this mission inside out. They are developing a new way to cause cancer cells […]
Engineering Medicine
Douglas Noll | Via Medicine at Michigan | September 1, 2012A joint department between the Medical School and College of Engineering — the first of its kind at Michigan — promises to accelerate the pace of biomedical engineering innovation… …The joint BME department is a first for the U-M — one department that is part of two schools or colleges. “It’s the first time this […]
NAE Member Joins Department as Adjunct Faculty
Joseph Salamone | Via University of Texas at Austin | September 1, 2012The Department of Biomedical Engineering has appointed Dr. Joseph Salamone, a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE), as an adjunct professor for the 2012–2013 academic year. Salamone is the Chief Scientific Officer of Rochal Industries in San Antonio, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and the former Vice […]
Science Study Shows ‘Promiscuous’ Enzymes Still Prevalent in Metabolism
Bernhard Palsson | Via UC San Diego News Center | August 30, 2012Open an undergraduate biochemistry textbook and you will learn that enzymes are highly efficient and specific in catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms, and that they evolved to this state from their “sloppy” and “promiscuous” ancestors to allow cells to grow more efficiently. This fundamental paradigm is being challenged in a new study by bioengineers […]
National Science Foundation Grant Will Benefit Students and Mobility-impaired Individuals
Joel Bumgardner | Via University of Memphis | August 28, 2012A grant to Dr. Joel Bumgardner, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Memphis, will not only help educate students in a number of fields, but will ultimately be of benefit to persons who are mobility-impaired. The $111,490 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will partially fund undergraduate student design projects that aim […]
Carnegie Mellon’s Philip LeDuc Named Fellow of Prestigious Biomedical Engineering Society
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | August 28, 2012Carnegie Mellon University’s Philip LeDuc has been named a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) for his exceptional achievements and experience in the field, including cell and molecular biomechanics. “This is a wonderful honor for me to be recognized by my peers as I work to improve the lives of people worldwide and to […]
Sensing Cyborg Tissues Now Feasible
Daniel Kohane | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | August 27, 2012Scientists have developed a technique for constructing silicon nanowire tissue scaffolds that contain nanoscale electrodes capable of monitoring intra- and extracellular function within living biological tissues grown through them. The porous three-dimensional (3D) biocompatible scaffolds can be generated as a mesh or planar construct and manipulated into just about any shape required before seeding with […]