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Dental School Nurtures Ties with Industry
Anne Meyer | Via University at Buffalo | August 26, 2009A dental products manufacturer headquartered in Germany had a problem. Company representatives suspected that someone was selling counterfeits of a brand-name composite resin in foreign markets. The questionable goods had been packaged professionally, matching authentic products in outward appearance. Without specialized help, it wasn’t possible to tell whether materials were real or imitation. The manufacturer […]
Georgia Tech’s Robert Nerem to Address Summer Commencement
Robert Nerem | Via Georgia Tech | July 31, 2009Professor Robert M. Nerem will address the graduates at Georgia Tech’s 234th commencement on Saturday, August 1, 2009. Approximately 800 undergraduate and graduate students will be recognized at a 9a.m. ceremony at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Robert M. Nerem joined Georgia Tech in 1987 as the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine. He […]
Natacha DePaola Named IIT Dean of Engineering
Natacha DePaola | Via Illinois Institute of Technology | May 7, 2009Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Provost Alan Cramb today announced the appointment of Natacha DePaola as dean of IIT Armour College of Engineering. DePaola joins IIT from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where she has been chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2005 and on the faculty since 1994. Before RPI, DePaola was assistant […]
Clemson Bioengineering Professor Receives 2009 Governor’s Award
Martine LaBerge | Via Clemson University | March 24, 2009Clemson professor and chairwoman of bioengineering Martine LaBerge is the recipient of the 2009 Governor’s Award for Scientific Awareness. The award was established in 1985 by the Drug Science Foundation to honor individuals or teams in South Carolina whose achievements and contributions to science merit special recognition and promote wider awareness of the quality and […]
Jay Keasling – The Colbert Report
Jay Keasling | Via Colbert Nation | March 10, 2009Jay Keasling says the same yeast that we use to produce beer and bread will soon be fueling our cars and planes. (04:57)
Rapid Deployment
Joel Bumgardner | Via University of Memphis | June 16, 2008In a dimly lit room the size of a boxcar, a patient at Fort Sam Houston in Texas lay on a U.S. Army gurney. A split in the skin over his knee revealed a nasty wound: broken shin, muscles bruised and burned, protective membranes shredded. On top of all that, it was infected. His doctors […]
Liquid Bandages – Polymeric materials patch up acute and chronic wounds
Ann Salamone | Via American Chemical Society | June 16, 2008Take a stroll through the first-aid aisle in a drugstore. Among the dizzying selection of gauze and medical tape and the myriad colors, shapes, and materials of adhesive bandages, you will likely find a few products labeled as “liquid bandages.” Many first-aid kits are now also stocked with a small bottle of this wound-covering alternative. […]
UB Offers Life Sciences Certificate Program
Anne Meyer | Via University at Buffalo | May 11, 2007As the biomedical industry develops, workers need knowledge of the regulatory environment in which life sciences products, medical devices and implants are developed, manufactured and sold. Strengthening this knowledge base among life science industry workers is the basis for a new certificate program, “Regulatory Environment of Medical Devices and Implants” (REMeDI) offered by the Division […]
Obituary In memoriam Knut Schmidt-Nielsen 24 September 1915 – 25 January 2007
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen | Via Biologists | April 15, 2007In the early hours of 25 January 2007, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, James B. Duke Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University, passed away peacefully in his home in Durham, North Carolina, at the age of 91. This tall, handsome Norse with his notoriously straight back and a great vital force had become frail over the past […]
Juergen K. Willmann, M.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Juergen Willmann | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Juergen K. Willmann, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Clinical Chief of Body Imaging, Department of Radiology, Body Imaging Division, Stanford University School of Medicine, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Willmann was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and […]
Guo-Yuan Yang, M.D., Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Guo-Yuan Yang | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Guo-Yuan Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, , Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Yang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For his seminal contributions to the fostering […]
Dezhong Yao, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Dezhong Yao | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Dezhong Yao, Ph.D., Director, Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation, Ministry of Education, China International Joint Research Center for NeuroInformation, Ministry of Science and Technology, China Dean, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of […]
Arjun G. Yodh, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Arjun Yodh | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Arjun G. Yodh, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Yodh was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For pioneering pre-clinical and […]
Chun Yuan, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Chun Yuan | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Chun Yuan, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and BioEngineering, Radiology/Vascular Imaging Laboratory, University of Washington, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Yuan was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For pioneering contributions […]
Kai Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Kai Zhang | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Kai Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, China, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to […]
Chunfeng Zhao, M.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Chunfeng Zhao | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Chunfeng Zhao, M.D., Professor of Orthopedics and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhao was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For the […]
Nicholas Paul Ziats, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Nicholas Ziats | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Nicholas Paul Ziats, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Biomedical Engineering and Anatomy, Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Ziats was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]
Paula Bickford, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Paula Bickford | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Paula Bickford, Ph.D., Senior Research Career Scientist, James A Haley VA Hospital Distinguished USF Health Professor, Neursorugery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Bickford was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
Justin Teissie, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Justin Teissie | Via AIMBE | December 10, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Justin Teissie, Ph.D., Emeritus DSc, IPBS, CNRS, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Teissie was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For fundamental and important contributions to biomembrane electrochemistry leading to […]
Xueji Zhang, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xueji Zhang | Via AIMBE | January 1, 1970WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Xueji Zhang, Ph.D., Director/Professor, Research center for Bionengineering and Sensing Technology, University of Science & Technology, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]