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New Pediatric Nanomedicine Center Links Health Care and Engineering
Gang Bao | Via Georgia Tech | March 28, 2011Physicians and engineers within a new center devoted to pediatric nanomedicine will develop targeted, molecular-sized nanoparticles as part of a unique approach to treating pediatric diseases. Specific focus areas will include pediatric heart disease and thrombosis, infectious diseases, cancer, sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. The Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine (CPN) is the first of […]
Cheap Fuel Cell Catalyst Made Easy
Liming Dai | Via Case Western Reserve University | March 22, 2011Catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells, a team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has found. The researchers are certain that they’ll be able to boost the power output and maintain the other advantages by matching the best nanotube […]
Role of Intermolecular Charge Transfer Promises Efficient Metal-Free Catalysts
Liming Dai | Via Nanowerk | March 21, 2011The efficiency of catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) – the process that breaks the bonds of oxygen molecules – to a large degree determines the electrochemical performance of fuel cells. Platinum and platinum-based composites have long been considered as the most efficient ORR catalysts. Platinum’s drawback, besides its high cost, has been its lack […]
A Better Way to Heal Broken Bones
John Fisher | Via UMD Bioengineering | March 17, 2011Your own stem cells could one day be quickly and efficiently cultured into new bone and tissue used to heal a serious injury, thanks to advances in the development of a device designed in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) at the Clark School. A paper about the device, “Tubular Perfusion System for the Long […]
New Blood Analysis Chip Could Lead to Disease Diagnosis in Minutes
Luke Lee | Via UC Berkeley | March 16, 2011A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external […]
Are we ready for ‘wafer-sized’ implantable medical devices?
Stephen Oesterle | Via TEDMED | March 16, 2011Five Named UB Distinguished Professors
Robert Baier | Via University at Buffalo | March 10, 2011Five faculty members representing dentistry, medicine and the social sciences have been named University at Buffalo Distinguished Professors for 2011. The appointments are effective Sept. 1. The UB Distinguished Professor designation — not to be confused with the State University of New York Distinguished Professor designation, a rank above that of full professor awarded by […]
UTSA Engineering Dean C. Mauli Agrawal Reappointed to Texas Emerging Technology Fund Advisory Board
C. Mauli Agrawal | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | March 9, 2011C. Mauli Agrawal, the UTSA David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair for the Dean of Engineering and Peter Flawn Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed to a second two-year term on the advisory board of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). Agrawal’s new term will expire Aug. 31, 2012. "At the recommendation of Governor […]
First-of-its-kind Study Shows Benefits of Electrical Stimulation Therapy for People Paralyzed by Spinal Cord Injury
Milos Popovic | Via University of Toronto | March 8, 2011A new treatment approach which uses tiny bursts of electricity to reawaken paralyzed muscles “significantly” reduced disability and improved grasping in people with incomplete spinal cord injuries, beyond the effects of standard therapy, newly published research shows. In a study published online in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Toronto researchers report that functional electrical […]
Matthew Tirrell Named Founding Director of Institute for Molecular Engineering
Matthew Tirrell | Via UChicago News | March 7, 2011Matthew Tirrell, a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, has been appointed founding Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s new Institute for Molecular Engineering, effective July 1. The institute, created in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, will explore innovative technologies that address fundamental societal problems through modern advances in nanoscale […]
UK Receives Multi-million Dollar Grant to Help Reduce Reliance on Imported Oil
Sue Nokes | Via UK Now | March 6, 2011The University of Kentucky has received a $6.9 million federal grant to help reduce America’s reliance on imported oil, one of eight awards issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy. As part of the Obama Administration’s comprehensive plan to address rising gas prices, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and […]
Empower Employees to Boost Productivity
David Hankin | Via Smart Business | March 2, 2011David Hankin could pass for an entertainment executive as he sits in the courtyard of The Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel. Donning a sleek suit and squinting into the sun, he cracks jokes about which doctor he might portray on TV. And when you hear his mantra, you’ll really think Hollywood. “You have to take care of […]
Biodegradable Biomaterial Platform Technology for Human Body Repair
Chih-Chang Chu | Via Cornell University CCTEC | March 1, 2011Dr. Chih-Chang “C.C.” Chu, the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor of Fiber Science at Cornell University, has developed many technologies with new biomaterials. His research includes the design and synthesis of biodegradable polymeric biomaterials for wound healing/closure, tissue regeneration, vascular grafts, heart valves, artificial skins, bone regeneration, infection control, drug control/release, DNA carriers for gene […]
February Awards: Four School of Medicine Faculty Named AAAS Fellows
James Anderson | Via Case Western Reserve University | February 28, 2011Four School of Medicine faculty members have been named Fellows of the prestigious American Association of for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are: Jerry Silver PhD, professor of neurosciences; James M. Anderson, professor of pathology, macromolecular science, and biomedical engineering, and a pathologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center; Qing K. Wang, PhD, professor […]
Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep
Emery Brown | Via New York Times | February 28, 2011Dr. Emery Neal Brown, 54, is a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a practicing physician, seeing patients at Massachusetts General Hospital. Between all that, he heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works. We spoke for three hours last […]
UCSF Collaborates with Zcube to Develop New Ways to Deliver Drugs
Tejal Desai | Via UC San Francisco | February 28, 2011A pill filled with microscopic, drug-laden adhesive patches is at the center of an agreement between UCSF and Zcube srl, the research corporate venture arm of Italian pharmaceutical leader Zambon Co., SpA, to license UCSF-developed microtechnology and support early research into new ways to deliver oral medications directly to a targeted site in the body. […]
Dean Lutchen Elected President of National Biomedical Engineering Institute
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | February 24, 2011College of Engineering Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen was elected president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) at the group’s annual meeting in Washington, DC, on Feb. 22. Dean Lutchen will lead the non-profit organization’s mission to advance public understanding of medical and biological engineering, and honor significant achievements in the field. […]
Nanoparticles May Enhance Circulating Tumor Cell Detection
Shuming Nie | Via Emory University | February 10, 2011Tiny gold particles can help doctors detect tumor cells circulating in the blood of patients with head and neck cancer, researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have found. The detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is an emerging technique that can allow oncologists to monitor patients with cancer for metastasis or to evaluate the progress […]
John Gore Elected to National Academy of Engineering
John Gore | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | February 9, 2011John C. Gore, Hertha Ramsey Cress University Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University and professor of biomedical engineering, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development and applications of magnetic resonance and other imaging techniques in medicine. Gore is the director of […]
5 Researchers Given Technology Development Grants
Gregory N. Tew | Via University of Massachusetts | February 8, 2011Five campus researchers been awarded $25,000 grants from the university”s Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund. Chemical engineers George Huber and Geoff Tompsett, polymer scientist Gregory Tew, computer scientist Kevin Fu and T.J. “Lakis” Mountziaris of the UMass NanoMedicine Institute will receive the grants to advance commercial development of leading-edge technologies based […]