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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.

 

 

Duerk Named Dean of Case Western Reserve University’s Case School of Engineering

Jeffrey Lewis Duerk | Via Case Western Reserve University | November 16, 2011

Biomedical Engineering Department Chair Jeffrey L. Duerk, PhD, will become the next dean of the Case School of Engineering, effective Jan. 1, Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder announced. An alumnus of the school, Duerk has been a member of the university faculty since 1988 and has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility […]

Boppart Presents at Congressional Briefing

Stephen A. Boppart | Via University of Illinois Engineering | November 15, 2011

On November 17, 2011, Professor Stephen Boppart will take part in a congressional briefing convened by the Optical Society of America (OSA). The briefing is being held under the auspices of the Advisory Committee for the Congressional Research and Development Caucus. Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineeirng and of bioengineering at Illinois, will […]

New Journal on Disruptive Science and Technology Launching in 2012

Alan Russell | Via Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers | November 14, 2011

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Disruptive Science and Technology, a highly innovative, bimonthly peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish game-changing research that has the potential to significantly improve human health, well-being, and productivity. The Journal will present new and innovative results, essential data, cutting-edge discoveries, thorough syntheses and analyses, and publish […]

Gilda Barabino Elected BMES President

Gilda Barabino | Via Georgia Tech News Center | November 8, 2011

Gilda Barabino was elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, it was announced at the 2011 BMES Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. She begins her two-year term in October 2012 at the Society’s next annual meeting in Atlanta. Barabino is the first underrepresented minority and second woman to be elected president of BMES since it […]

Carnegie Mellon’s Phil LeDuc and Mary Beth Wilson Receive Prestigious Gates Foundation Grant for Fighting Child Malnutrition in Africa

Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | November 7, 2011

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are adjusting the cell mechanics of certain leafy vegetables in Africa in an effort to make the vegetation more palatable for malnourished infants and children.  Phil LeDuc, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mary Beth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, have won an extremely competitive Grand Challenges Explorations Award […]

Cancer Research Grants Awarded

Liping Tang | Via UT Arlington | November 4, 2011

The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has awarded two University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering researchers – Baohong Yuan and Liping Tang – more than $1.2 million to explore better methods of detecting cancer. Yuan, an assistant professor who joined UT Arlington in 2010, this week won a $1 million award that he […]

New Vaccine that Elicit Pulmonary Cytotoxic T Cell Responses

Jeffrey Hubbell | Via École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne | November 2, 2011

Nanoparticle conjugation of antigen enhances cytotoxic T-cell responses in pulmonary vaccination. Disulfide-linked nanoparticle-antigen conjugates could be useful for creating vaccines that elicit pulmonary cytotoxic T cell responses. As shown by the groups of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell (LMRP – Merck Serono Chair in Drug Delivery) and Prof. Melody Swartz (LLCB – Laboratory of Lymphatic and Cancer […]

Scientist’s Revolutionary Drug Pump Draws NSF Support

Ellis Meng | Via University of Southern California News | November 2, 2011

Last month, for the first time in 11 years, USC associate professor Ellis Meng found herself raising her hand and asking questions in the classroom – not answering them. Meng, whose research at USC focuses on developing a tiny, implantable medication-delivery system, is enrolled in a business crash-course sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]

Paul Benkeser, Ph.D: Reflections of the Outgoing Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

Paul Benkeser | Via Pioneer | November 1, 2011

Stemming from the tremendous growth of the department, several changes were made within the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s administration faculty shortly before the commencement of the 2011-2012 academic year. Paul Benkeser, Ph.D. was the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for almost ten years, and has been with the Coulter Department since its […]

Harvard Med School Researchers Help Direct Stem Cells

Jeffrey Karp | Via Boston Business Journal | October 31, 2011

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and other hospitals have taken a step toward making stem cell therapies more effective by adding homing receptors to those cells. Attaching the chemical receptors to stem cells has the potential to increase the concentration of cells at target locations in the body, according to the researchers, who published […]

Lung Regeneration Closer to Reality With New Discovery by Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers

Sina Rabbany | Via Weill Cornell Medical College | October 28, 2011

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to “turn on” lung regeneration — an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. In the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Cell, the research team reports that they have uncovered the biochemical […]

Programming Cells to Home to Specific Tissues may Enable More Effective Cell-based Therapies

Jeffrey Karp | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | October 27, 2011

Stem cell therapies hold enormous potential to address some of the most tragic illnesses, diseases, and tissue defects world-wide. However, the inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier to effective cell therapy. To address this hurdle, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a platform approach to chemically […]

FDA Awards University of Maryland a New Center for Regulatory Science

William Bentley | Via UMD Newsdesk | October 26, 2011

Maryland is one of two new centers that will pilot ways universities can help improve how drugs and medical devices are evaluated. The University of Maryland has created a new Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), funded by an initial $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The center […]

President Obama Awards Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien National Medal of Science in White House Ceremony

Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | October 25, 2011

What did UC San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien and President Barack Obama talk about as Chien received the National Medal of Science from the president Friday at the White House? About the importance of science education and research, of course. The president had just given a short speech on that topic, before bestowing the […]

Giorgio is BMES 2011 Fellow

Todd D. Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | October 24, 2011

Todd Giorgio, professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department at Vanderbilt University, is a member of the 2011 class of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Fellows. The six newly elected fellows were nominated by their peers and elected by the BMES Fellows Committee chaired by board member Nicholas A. Peppas of the University of Texas.

Bioengineer David Mooney Honored with Senior Scientist Award

David Mooney | Via Harvard SEAS | October 21, 2011

Honor From The Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society-North America Recognizes His Significant Contributions On behalf of the Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society-North America (TERMIS-NA), Harvard’s David Mooney has been awarded the Senior Scientist Award. Mooney is the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and […]

Shu Chien to Receive National Medal of Science in White House Ceremony on Oct. 21

Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | October 19, 2011

President Barack Obama will present University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). The ceremony will be carried live by satellite feed and webcast on the White House website at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live. Chien will be […]

Research Teams Win IBB, Hamill Awards

Kyriacos Zygourakis | Via Rice University News | October 19, 2011

Fortified foods, pediatric heart valves that grow with a patient and the effects of biochar on microbes are among the winners of awards presented by Rice University’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB). The Hamill Awards and IBB Medical Innovations Awards, which include seed grants, will be presented Nov. 29. The Hamill Foundation and the […]

Biology Rides to Computers’ Aid

Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 18, 2011

Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity. Cost-effective ways of producing them have proved elusive, but researchers have recently been turning toward a surprising source for help: DNA molecules. In a paper […]

$1.35 Million to Fisher Lab for Development of Bone Regeneration Technology

John Fisher | Via UMD Bioengineering | October 18, 2011

A proposal to advance the development of a system for regenerating large areas of bone in patients with serious injuries has received a four year, $1.35 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Clark School Associate Professor and Associate Chair John […]