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Bioengineer David Mooney Honored with Senior Scientist Award
David Mooney | Via Harvard SEAS | October 21, 2011Honor 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, 2011President 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, 2011Fortified 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, 2011Photonic 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, 2011A 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 […]
Dr. David Fischell, CEO Angel Medical Systems Discusses AngelMed Implantable Heart Attack Medical Device Detection System—Video Interview AdvaMed 2011 Conference
David Fischell | Via Stock News Now | October 12, 2011David Fischell, CEO of Angel Medical Systems spoke with our host at the AdvaMed Conference 2011 in Washington D.C. to discuss AngelMed’s latest Medical Device. AngelMed came to AdvaMed to talk about their implantable heart attack detection system called the AngelMed Guardian Cardiac Monitor and Alert System that “detects and warns patients of acute episodes […]
Coté Elected BMES Fellow
Gerard Cote | Via TAMU Times | October 10, 2011Dr. Gerard L. Coté, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Charles H. & Bettye Barclay Professor, has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Class of 2011 Fellows.
Light Can Detect Pre-Cancerous Colon Cells
Adam P. Wax | Via Duke Engineering | October 10, 2011After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary experiments. This technology could be a non-invasive way for physicians to detect abnormal cells, or dysplasia, which have the potential of turning […]
Shutting Off Inflammation
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 9, 2011Using short snippets of RNA to turn off a specific gene in certain immune cells, scientists have shown that they can shut off the inflammation responsible for diseases such as atherosclerosis. This technique, known as RNA interference, offers a targeted way to stop inflammation and could be useful in treating not only atherosclerosis, but also […]
$6.3 Million Center at UCSF and UC Davis Seeks Ways to Diagnose and Prevent Osteoarthritis
Sharmila Majumdar | Via UC San Francisco | October 6, 2011How people walk, jump and run and how their knees look in an MRI scanner may hold the secret to predicting years or even decades in advance whether they will develop osteoarthritis, the common degenerative joint disease that strikes half of all Americans by the time they reach the age of 70. Doctors today cannot […]
William A. Hawkins Appointed New CEO of Immucor
William Hawkins | Via Immucor Investor Relations | October 6, 2011The Board of Directors of Immucor, Inc. announced today that William A. Hawkins will be Immucor’s next CEO. Immucor, Inc. is a private company, wholly owned by TPG Capital. Mr. Hawkins’ appointment follows the decision of current CEO Joshua Levine to step down from his role. The transition will be effective October 17, 2011. In […]
‘Nanostructure’ Process to Streamline Production of Magnetic Materials
Gregory N. Tew | Via University of Massachusetts | October 4, 2011Polymer Science and Engineering”s Gregory Tew and colleagues have designed a completely new and simpler method of preparing ordered magnetic materials by coupling magnetic properties to nanostructure formation at low temperatures. The innovative process, outlined by Tew in the current issue of Nature Communications, allows them to create room-temperature ferromagnetic materials that are stable for […]
Langer Honored for Achievements in Biomedical Engineering
Robert Langer | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 3, 2011Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, who has enabled the creation of artificial skin now used for burn victims and skin-ulcer patients and whose work may someday enable the creation of new vocal cords, is the winner of this year’s Innovation Award in the category of bioscience. The Innovation Awards, given […]
The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts
Barbara Oakley | Via New York Times | October 3, 2011…Barbara Oakley, an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan and an editor of the new volume, said in an interview that when she first began talking about its theme at medical or social science conferences, “people looked at me as though I’d just grown goat horns. They said, ‘But altruism by definition […]
Ali Khademhosseini Receives Early Career Award from White House
Ali Khademhosseini | Via University of Texas at Austin | September 27, 2011Two scientists from The University of Texas at Austin are among the 2011 recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The recipients are Ali Khademhosseini, a 2011 Donald […]
White House Awards UC San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien National Medal of Science
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | September 27, 2011President Barack Obama today named University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien one of the seven eminent researchers to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers. Chien is the only engineer among the seven medalists. Shu Chien, a professor in the […]
Rensselaer Professor Steven Cramer Named Fellow of AIChE
Steven Cramer | Via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | September 27, 2011Bioseparations and bioprocessing expert Steven Cramer, the William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The AIChE commended Cramer for his wide-reaching research successes, and for demonstrating “significant accomplishments in, and contributions to, the profession” of chemical engineering. “Professor […]
Katherine Ferrara Collaborates on New $3.8 Million Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
Katherine Ferrara | Via UC Davis Biomedical Engineering | September 26, 2011The National Institutes of Health today awarded $3.8 million to the University of California, Davis, to fund a new mouse-based research center devoted to studies of the physiology and genetics of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Katherine Ferrara is one of the collaborators in the new Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center. A major focus for the […]
Protein ‘Switches’ Could Turn Cancer Cells into Tiny Chemotherapy Factories
Marc Ostermeier | Via Johns Hopkins University News Releases | September 23, 2011Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a protein “switch” that instructs cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication. In lab tests, the researchers showed that these switches, working from inside the cells, can activate a powerful cell-killing drug when the device detects a marker linked to cancer. The goal, the scientists said, is to deploy […]
How to Reverse General Anesthesia
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | September 22, 2011When patients awaken from surgery, they’re usually groggy and disoriented; it can take hours for a patient to become fully clearheaded again. Emery Brown, an MIT neuroscientist and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), thinks it doesn’t have to be that way. Brown and colleagues at MGH are studying the effects of stimulants that […]