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Collaborative Team Develops New Astro Surgery Tools for NASA Deep Space Missions
George Pantalos | Via Carnegie Mellon Engineering | September 20, 2012Move over “Bones” McCoy. Future voyages of the starship Enterprise just might include astro surgery as this dynamic discipline jumps from the pages of fiction to reality. A team of biomedical engineering researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Louisville are developing surgical tools that could be used for future expeditionary spaceflights to […]
Getting Jazzed About High-Tech Healthcare
Michael Harsh | Via Business Innovation Factory | September 19, 2012When Mike Harsh came to work as an electrical design engineer at GE Healthcare in 1979, he planned to stay for two years and move on to something else. That was 33 years ago, and he’s still “jazzed” about the place. “It feels like I just started, and today’s my first day,” he says about […]
New Antibacterial Coating for Sutures Could Reduce Infections After Surgery
Gregory N. Tew | Via American Chemical Society | September 19, 2012Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the most widely used commercial coating. Their report appears in ACS’ journal Langmuir. Professor Gregory Tew, who is from UMass-Amherst, and colleagues explain that infection at […]
Doctors, Engineers Team Up to Fight Cancer
Catherine Klapperich | Via BU Today | September 18, 2012Imagine a world where a simple mouth swab could predict lung cancer, a blood test could warn of a recurrence of melanoma, and a rectal scan could tell if you would benefit from a colonoscopy. That world is the vision of the Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care (FTCC), founded here in July with […]
Seeking Visionary Scientists with Business Sense
Donald Gaver | Via Tulane University | September 18, 2012Donald P. Gaver is looking for serious science students who possess a penchant for taking entrepreneurial risks. Gaver, the Alden J. “Doc” Laborde professor and chair of biomedical engineering, is directing a new interdisciplinary PhD program in bioinnovation at Tulane University. Donald P. Gaver, biomedical engineering professor and director of the interdisciplinary bioinnovation PhD program, […]
Coated Nanoparticles Move Easily into Brain Tissue
Justin Hanes | Via Johns Hopkins CCNE | September 17, 2012Johns 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 Aug. 29 in Science Translational Medicine, the Johns Hopkins team says its bioengineers have designed nanoparticles that can safely […]
Commercializing Medical Pesearch: Pitt Building a Bridge to the Investment Community
Pratap Khanwilkar | Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 16, 2012Pitt’s McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine and the Swanson School of Engineering just received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps to develop a strategy for commercializing a nerve regeneration treatment. That team is led by Kacey Marra, who is laboratory director for plastic surgery research at Pitt. A key player in […]
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 […]