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Regrowing Blood Vessels With a Potent Molecule
Yadong Wang | Via University of Pittsburgh News | August 2, 2011Ever since the Nobel Prize for nerve growth factor was awarded more than 30 years ago, researchers have been searching for ways to use growth factor clinically. University of Pittsburgh Professor Yadong Wang has developed a minimally invasive method of delivering growth factor to regrow blood vessels. His research, which could be used to treat […]
Duke Innovation Wins Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge
Robert Malkin | Via Duke Global Health Institute | August 2, 2011Last week, nearly $14 million was awarded to innovations aimed at saving the lives of mothers and children around the world Thursday in a landmark event hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. The innovative Pratt Pouch developed by Pratt School of Engineering and DGHI faculty member Robert Malkin […]
Roche Appoints Mara G. Aspinall President of Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
Mara Aspinall | Via PR Newswire | August 1, 2011Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, announced today the appointment of Mara Aspinall to the role of President, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. Aspinall was most recently Founder, President, and CEO of On-Q-ity, a start-up diagnostics company focused on circulating tumor cell technology. Prior to this, Aspinall spent twelve years with […]
Justin Hanes, Ph.D. Honored as the New Lewis J. Ort Professor and Director of the Center for Nanomedicine
Justin Hanes | Via Johns Hopkins Medicine | August 1, 2011Sisters Kim Alkire and Marlee, Cherie , and Karen Ort were invited to Wilmer this August to meet Justin Hanes, Ph.D., the new Lewis J. Ort Professor and Director of the Center for Nanomedicine; for a special champagne toast and tour of the Smith Building. Dr. Hanes is working with other Wilmer investigators to focus […]
New Chair of Biomedical Engineering Conducts Medical Imaging Research to Personalize Treatment of Heart Ailments | UVA Today
Frederick H. Epstein | Via UVA Today | July 28, 2011As medical imaging continues to improve – providing sharper and clearer pictures of living human tissues – University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor Frederick Epstein is moving beyond better pictures toward images that quantify the details of the workings of organs such as the heart. This can allow physicians to make more accurate diagnoses and […]
NSERC Invests $42 Million in U of T Research
Milos Popovic | Via University of Toronto | July 27, 2011The Government of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada gave U of T research a huge boost July 27 when it announced $42 million in investment to 158 U of T faculty members, as well as graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral students. The announcement was made by Steven Fletcher, federal Minister of […]
Susan Margulies Receives $6.7 million NIH/NINDS Grant
Susan Margulies | Via Penn Engineering | July 21, 2011Susan S. Margulies, Professor and George H. Stephenson Term Chair of Bioengineering, has recently been awarded a $6.7 million, 5-year NIH/NINDS grant to conduct preclinical Cyclosporin A trials to treat pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). This multi-institutional, collaborative study is the first of its kind to use immature porcine models of TBI with developmental and […]
UCSF Bioengineer Builds Miniscule Medical Implants to Treat Diseases
Tejal Desai | Via UC San Francisco | July 20, 2011As a Santa Barbara high school student, UCSF bioengineer Tejal Desai got a kick out of making things work. Her father was a chemical engineer, and she thought she knew what engineering was all about. So, she was startled when a bioengineer visited her class and told the students about research to develop artificial organs […]
Canon U.S. Life Sciences and the University of Maryland Launch New Collaboration
William Bentley | Via UMD Newsdesk | July 19, 2011Joint Team to Develop Automated Machine Designed to Expedite the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., and the University of Maryland have launched a new research collaboration to develop a highly automated system providing rapid infectious disease diagnosis. Utilizing Canon U.S. Life Sciences’ proprietary genetic analysis […]
Six Faculty Members Named CIC-ALP Fellows
Joseph M. K. Irudayaraj | Via Purdue University | July 18, 2011The Office of the Provost has selected six faculty members to participate in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program during the 2011-12 academic year. The CIC is a consortium of the Big Ten member universities plus the University of Chicago. “This program is a broad-based learning experience to develop the leadership and […]
Kristi Kiick Named Deputy Dean of College of Engineering Effective Aug. 1
Kristi Kiick | Via University of Delaware | July 18, 2011Kristi Kiick, professor of materials science and engineering, has been named deputy dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering effective Aug. 1. As deputy dean, Kiick replaces Babatunde Ogunnaike who has been appointed interim dean of engineering. “I am honored to have this opportunity to serve the college and look forward to working […]
Medtronic Invests in Lens Implant Company
Stephen Oesterle | Via MedCity News | July 15, 2011California-based startup PowerVision announced Friday that Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has become a strategic investor in a $24.7 million funding round that included other investors. As a result of the investment, Medtronic’s Dr. Stephen Oesterle, senior vice president, medicine and technology at Medtronic, will serve as an observer on the board of PowerVision, an ophthalmology company. PowerVision […]
Editing the Genome
George M. Church | Via Harvard Gazette | July 14, 2011The power to edit genes is as revolutionary, immediately useful, and unlimited in its potential as was Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. And like Gutenberg’s invention, most DNA editing tools are slow, expensive, and hard to use — a brilliant technology in its infancy. Now, Harvard researchers developing genome-scale editing tools as fast and easy as […]
Colvin and Farach-Carson Named to Vice Provost Positions
Vicki Colvin | Via Rice University | July 13, 2011Professors Vicki Colvin and Mary ”Cindy” Farach-Carson have been named to vice provost positions by Provost George McLendon. Colvin, director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), is vice provost for research. Farach-Carson, scientific director of the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC), is vice provost for translational bioscience. ”Vicki and Cindy are both well-respected […]
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. […]