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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.
New Material Could Offer Hope to Those with No Voice
Robert Langer | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | July 13, 2011In 1997, the actress and singer Julie Andrews lost her singing voice following surgery to remove noncancerous lesions from her vocal cords. She came to Steven Zeitels, a professor of laryngeal surgery at Harvard Medical School, for help. Zeitels was already starting to develop a new type of material that could be implanted into scarred […]
UTSA’s Mauli Agrawal Joins San Antonio Mayor and Others on Israel Trip
C. Mauli Agrawal | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | July 12, 2011Mauli Agrawal, dean of The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering, joined San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and other San Antonio representatives in witnessing a historic moment between Israel and the Alamo City.
More Oxygen in Eyes of African-Americans May Help Explain Glaucoma Risk
David Beebe | Via Washington University in St. Louis | July 11, 2011Measuring oxygen during eye surgery, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a reason that may explain why African-Americans have a higher risk of glaucoma than Caucasians… …“We began studying oxygen in the eye after our basic studies showed that it was tightly regulated there, with the lowest levels near […]
Knothe Tate Wins Life Sciences Award
Melissa Knothe Tate | Via Case School of Engineering | July 11, 2011The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce awarded Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, a $25,000 Chairmen’s Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist Award. Knothe Tate is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of orthopaedic mechanobiology as well as the development and clinical translation of novel technologies and […]
Transforming Drug Delivery
Ellis Meng | Via University of Southern California Engineering | July 10, 2011Ellis Meng, an associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, stands at the bold crossroads of medical research. She seeks new ways to deliver and monitor drugs for patients through nanotechnology and wireless communication. Through a grant from the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) […]
Federal Grant to Advance Imaging for Primary Care Physicians
Stephen A. Boppart | Via University of Illinois Engineering | July 5, 2011The National Institutes of Health has awarded bioengineering professor Stephen Boppart a $5 million grant for a bioengineering research partnership that will develop new handheld optical imaging technology for primary care providers. “The result of this – if successful, could really reduce our health care costs and streamline our delivery of health care,” Boppart said. […]
Putting Evolution to Work
George M. Church | Via Forbes | June 29, 2011It is perhaps fitting that the new prototype of a machine Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church developed to “mass produce” new genes looks a little like a high-end stove. (Linked Photo courtesy of Marie Wu.) “Cooking,” as one lab director once told me, is basically what lab researchers do. They cook with genes. The […]
Cheng Dong Named New Head of Bioengineering Department
Cheng Dong | Via Penn State News | June 27, 2011Cheng Dong, distinguished professor of bioengineering, has been named the new head of Penn State’s Department of Bioengineering, effective Aug. 1. The major focus of Dong’s research is to elucidate biomechanical, biophysical and biochemical aspects of cellular function in the circulatory systems, with particular interest in cellular biomechanics, cell adhesion, cell migration, cell signaling, systems […]
New Technique Yields Troves of Information From Nanoscale Bone Samples
Deepak Vashishth | Via Rensselaer News | June 22, 2011Engineering Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Have Developed New Process for the Microdissection and In-Depth Biochemical Analysis of Bone Tissue A new technique developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute allows researchers to collect large amounts of biochemical information from nanoscale bone samples. Along with adding important new insights into the fight against osteoporosis, this innovation opens […]
Robert Langer Wins Top Chemistry Award
Robert Langer | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 21, 2011David H. Koch Institute Professor Robert S. Langer has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) to receive the 2012 Priestley Medal, the society’s most prestigious prize, for his “distinguished services to chemistry.” Langer was honored for his “cutting-edge research that helped create the controlled-release drug industry and the field of tissue engineering,” according […]
Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains
Theodore Berger | Via University of Southern California News | June 17, 2011Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off – literally with the flip of a switch. Using an electronic system that duplicates the neural signals associated with memory, they managed to replicate the brain function in rats associated with long-term learned behavior, even when the rats had been drugged to forget. “Flip […]
Carnegie Mellon Engineering Professors Create World’s Smallest Fuel Cell Powered By Biology
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | June 17, 2011Carnegie Mellon University’s Kelvin B. Gregory and Philip R. LeDuc have created the world’s smallest fuel cell powered by bacteria. Future versions of the biology-powered fuel cell could be used for self-powered sensing devices in remote locations where batteries are impractical, such as deep ocean or geological environments… …”Our biology-powered fuel cell could be less […]
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D., Named 2011 Mendel Medalist
Joseph DeSimone | Via Villanova University | June 17, 2011Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D., the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named the 2011 Mendel medalist. DeSimone also is an adjunct member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. DeSimone […]
Engineers Control the Environment to Direct Stem Cell Differentiation
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | June 16, 2011New research presented on June 16, 2011 at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) shows that systematically controlling the local and global environments during stem cell development helps to effectively direct the process of differentiation. In the future, these findings could be used to develop manufacturing procedures for producing […]
Controlled Release Society Presents Mikos with 2011 College of Fellows Award
Antonios Mikos | Via Rice Bioengineering | June 14, 2011Antonios G. Mikos has been selected for the Controlled Release Society’s (CRS) 2011 College of Fellows Award for his landmark contributions in material and drug delivery research that has brought about significant advances to the field of tissue engineering. The College of Fellows Award, the most prestigious level of membership of CRS, credits decades of […]
U of T Researchers Win $3.2 Million to Tackle Cancer, Other Health Challenges
Warren Chan | Via University of Toronto News | June 9, 2011Seven U of T researchers have won a total of $3.2 million in grants from the collaborative health research projects program (CHRP). Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear was on campus June 9 to announce $15 million in funding for 17 universities across Canada. U of T researchers won 21 per cent of […]
New Imaging Tech Promising for Diagnosing Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes
Ji-Xin Cheng | Via Purdue University | June 9, 2011Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser. The new method could be used to take precise three-dimensional images of plaques lining arteries, said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue […]
Two Engineering Faculty Members Named Fellows with Renowned Science Group
Rena Bizios | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | June 6, 2011Earlier this year, Sos Agaian, Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Rena Bizios, Peter T. Flawn Professor of Biomedical Engineering, were inducted as fellows into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an elected honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
UTSA and Southwest Research Institute to Collaborate on Biomedical Research
Rena Bizios | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | June 2, 2011The UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announce an award of $200,000 in FY 2013 Connect program funding to UTSA Peter T. Flawn Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rena Bizios and SwRI Senior Research Scientists Vicky Poenitzsch and Xingguo Cheng for their collaborative research proposal, “Novel Scaffolds for Tendon-Ligament […]
Contact lenses: Look Into My Eyes
Daniel Kohane | Via The Economist | June 2, 2011EYES can reveal an awful lot about somebody. Look into someone’s eyes and you can tell if he is happy or sad, truthful or insincere, sober or drunk. By peering deeper still, ophthalmologists are even able to gauge a person’s health, spotting far more than just conditions that affect the eye itself: hypertension and brain […]