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Khademhosseini Receives Technical Achievement Award for Biomedical Engineering
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham & Women's Hospital | May 21, 2013Ali Khademhosseni, PhD, the principal investigator in the Khademhosseini Laboratory in BWH’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the 2013 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The award will be presented at the EMBS’s annual meeting in July in Japan. The Technical Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have made […]
High-Tech Gel Could Be New Diabetes Treatment
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 20, 2013For Type 1 diabetes sufferers, constant monitoring of insulin and blood sugar levels is both inconvenient and time consuming. But now there is some good news: An MIT project currently underway could allow the body to do it automatically. MIT researchers have created a type of nanoparticle—for those of us not enrolled at MIT, that’s an extremely […]
Top Innovators in Massachusetts
Omid Farokhzad | Via The Boston Globe | May 19, 2013Big thinker Omid Farokhzad is thinking small. How small? “The typical nanotechnology we develop is on the order of 100 nanometers in size, enough to put a thousand side by side on the cross-section of a hair,” said Farokhzad, 44, a biotech pioneer who believes he has found the silver bullet in medicine — targeted […]
Meet U of T’s Inventors of the Year
Milos Popovic | Via University of Toronto | May 17, 2013“The Inventor of the Year Award is meant to recognize inventions that have the potential to improve our quality of life,” said Professor Paul Young, vice-president (research and innovation). “The winning inventions represent the very best of innovation at U of T, and on behalf of the University, I extend my congratulations.” To qualify for […]
Bear Cub Grants Foster Entrepreneurship
David Beebe | Via Washington University in St. Louis | May 16, 2013Scientists are natural problem solvers, full of innovative ideas. But moving those ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace can be difficult, even for those with an entrepreneurial bent. In part, that’s because federal research dollars typically don’t support the proof-of-concept studies needed to demonstrate the feasibility of a promising new technology or diagnostic test. […]
West Caldwell Doctor Honored for Bone Research
Adele Boskey | Via Hospital for Special Surgery | May 16, 2013Hospital for Special Surgery has honored Dr. Adele Boskey of West Caldwell, for her research in osteoporosis and her role as a mentor to young scientists. Boskey was recognized at a symposium on the latest research in bone mineralization and its role in bone disease at the hospital in New York City on May 2. […]
Richard Waugh Appointed Associate Vice President for Research
Richard Waugh | Via University of Rochester | May 16, 2013Richard Waugh, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed to the newly-created position of associate vice president for research. “Rick has been collaborating with researchers on both the River Campus and the School of Medicine and Dentistry for more than three decades,” said Robert Clark, senior vice president for research. “His great […]
‘Folding Materials’ Researchers Earn NSF Grant
Dan Luo | Via Cornell Chronicle | May 16, 2013Cornell researchers Jenny Sabin, assistant professor of architecture, and Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering, are among the lead investigators on a new research project to produce “buildable, bendable and biological materials” for a wide range of applications. Sabin and Luo will share in a $2 million, four-year National Science Foundation grant with […]
Nanotechnology Could Help Fight Diabetes
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 15, 2013Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin. The nanoparticles were designed to sense glucose levels in the body and respond by secreting the appropriate amount of insulin, thereby replacing the function of pancreatic islet cells, […]
Using Clay to Grow Bone
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Harvard Gazette | May 15, 2013Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are the first to report that synthetic silicate nanoplatelets (also known as layered clay) can induce stem cells to become bone cells without the need of additional bone-inducing factors. Synthetic silicates are made up of simple or complex salts of silicic acids, and have been used extensively […]
Engineered Biomaterial Could Improve Success of Medical Implants
Buddy Ratner | Via University of Washington | May 14, 2013It’s a familiar scenario – a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to an already compromised system. Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body’s natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. Now, University of […]
New PhD Program in Molecular Engineering Marks Historic First for UChicago
Matthew Tirrell | Via UChicago News | May 14, 2013The University of Chicago will offer an engineering PhD for the first time, emphasizing the development of solutions to technological problems of society based on molecular-level science. “Traditional engineering schools divide engineering into disciplines; IME combines disciplines into a new approach to engineering research and education,” said Matthew Tirrell, the Pritzker Director of the Institute […]
Prof DeLisa Selected as the 2013 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator
Matthew P. DeLisa | Via Cornell University | May 13, 2013Professor Matthew DeLisa was selected as the 2013 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator. “This award recognizes outstanding excellence in research and practice contributed to the field of biochemical engineering by a young community member. The award and associated lecture are presented on an annual basis either at the Annual AIChE meeting in conjunction with the FPBE […]
Sports Science, Featuring WSU’s Cynthia Bir, Wins Award at 34th Annual Sports Emmys
Cynthia A. Bir | Via Wayne State University Engineering | May 10, 2013ESPN Sport Science, the popular Emmy-winning television series featuring Wayne State University Professor of Biomedical Engineering Cynthia Bir, won a Sports Emmy Award for Best New Approach on May 7, 2013. Bir was listed as a producer on the nomination.
New EPIC Studio Will Equip ENG Students with Design Skills
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | May 10, 2013By many accounts, manufacturing is making a comeback in the United States. US manufacturers have added 500,000 new workers since the end of 2009, energy costs have dropped, and labor costs in competing countries such as China and India have been inching upward. President Barack Obama has been pushing to expand advanced manufacturing, most recently […]
Alyssa Panitch Appointed Leslie A. Geddes Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Alyssa Panitch | Via Purdue University | May 10, 2013The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved Alyssa Panitch as the Leslie A. Geddes Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Panitch came to Purdue in 2006 as an associate professor of biomedical engineering. She has been associate head of research for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue since 2009. Prior to coming to Purdue, she […]
Six Collaborations Win IBB Innovation Awards
George N. Bennett | Via Rice University News | May 9, 2013Rice University’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) this week announced the winners of both the 2012-2013 Hamill Awards, which promote collaboration among Rice faculty, and the 2012-2013 IBB Medical Innovations Awards, which promote collaborations between faculty at Rice and institutions in the Texas Medical Center. The awards will be formally presented at IBB’s annual […]
Jin Kang Named Jammer Professor of Electrical Engineering
Jin U. Kang | Via Johns Hopkins University Engineering | May 9, 2013Jin U. Kang, chair and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named the Jacob Suter Jammer Professor of Electrical Engineering as of Jan. 1, 2013. Kang’s research focuses on fiber optic devices and biophotonics for applications in medicine and sensing. Much of his recent research emphasizes the development of […]
Symposium Promotes Biotechnology Teaching
Lonnie Shea | Via Northwestern University | May 8, 2013Northwestern, Baxter International, Lindblom Academy sponsor hands-on summer teacher workshops Bringing today’s science into Chicago classrooms is the driving goal of a summer series of professional development workshops in biotechnology that kicks off Tuesday, May 14 with a symposium on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. The May 14 event – “Bringing Biotech from the Bench to […]
Bone Grafting — Is There Another Way?
Sachin Mamidwar | Via Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | May 7, 2013When a bone graft is performed, surgeons use allografts from dead bodies, autografts from the patient himself, and occasionally from the bone of an animal, or xenografts. Each of these pose a certain amount of risk, which is why many companies are looking for ways around it, producing new materials in a laboratory setting that […]