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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. […]
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 […]