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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 […]
Building Tissues From Scratch
Jennifer Elisseeff | Via John Hopkins Medicine | February 1, 2011Facing a limited supply of donor tissues and organs, scientists seek to grow their own using stem cells and biodegradable materials. Cornea transplantation is the most common transplant procedure. In the United States alone, surgeons perform 40,000 of the operations each year. Corneal tissue, however, is in tight supply in this country, and worldwide there […]
Pitt Researchers Grow Arteries With Highest Level of Elastic Protein Reported, Important Step for Living Vascular Transplants
Yadong Wang | Via University of Pittsburgh News | January 31, 2011University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a development that could overcome a major barrier to creating living-tissue replacements for damaged arteries, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team used smooth muscle cells from adult […]
Bioengineers among UC San Diego Researchers Awarded CIRM Grants in Support of Innovative Technologies
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | January 28, 2011The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded three grants totaling nearly $5.8 million to researchers at the University of California, San Diego – including bioengineering professors Shu Chien and Shyni Varghese — for development of innovative technologies designed to advance translational stem cell research. The grants are part of $32 million in Tools […]
US, UK Join Forces for Nano Safety
Vicki Colvin | Via Rice University | January 27, 2011Environmental and scientific agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have formed a joint $5 million scientific effort to develop new risk-management tools that government officials can use to effectively regulate nanomaterials. The Nanomaterial Bioavailability and Environmental Exposure (Nano-BEE) Consortia includes investigators from three universities each in the U.S. and the U.K. “Regulators […]
Universal Solvent No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel
Ka Yee Christina Lee | Via University of Chicago News | January 27, 2011Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A patent is pending on the substance, whose potential applications include use as an adhesive or coating for underwater machinery or in biomedical settings as a surgical […]
Prof. Ding Edits Book on The Dynamic Brain
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF Biomedical Engineering | January 26, 2011UF BME Professor Mingzhou Ding has edited a newly published book, The Dynamic Brain, by Oxford Press. His co-editor is Dr. Dennis Glanzman, the Program Chief of the Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. This carefully edited volume, with contributions from leading researchers around the world, is the first […]
Prof. Guo Leads Bone Strength Study
Edward Guo | Via Columbia Biomedical Engineering | January 24, 2011Biomedical Engineering Professor X. Edward Guo is part of a team of researchers that has produced a study finding that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far greater bone strength than their Caucasian counterparts, as determined by a breakthrough technological advance.
Medtronic Seeks Ideas with New Web Portal
Michael Hess | Via Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal | January 21, 2011If you’re a physician or inventor who’s dreamed up the next big innovation in medical technology, Medtronic Inc. wants to hear from you. The medical device giant has launched an online idea portal, called Innovate with Medtronic, that allows individuals to submit product proposals to the company via a website. Overall, the idea-portal concept isn’t […]
Columbia Study Finds That Chinese-American Women Have Greater Bone Strength Than Caucasian Women
Edward Guo | Via Columbia Engineering | January 15, 2011A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Center announced today the results of the first study comparing bone structure in Chinese-American women to Caucasian women. The report, just presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s annual meeting at Long Beach, CA, found that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far greater bone strength than […]