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A Heart Beats to a Different Drummer: Researchers Pace Embryonic Heart With Laser
Andrew Rollins | Via Case Western Reserve University | August 16, 2010Love, exercise and, new research shows, an infrared laser can make a heart beat faster. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University found that pulsed light can pace contractions in an avian embryonic heart, with no apparent damage to the tissue. The work, “Optical pacing of the embryonic heart,” will be published in […]
Biomedical Engineering Society Honors Health Center VP
Cato T. Laurencin | Via UConn Today | August 13, 2010Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, vice president for health affairs at the University of Connecticut Health Center and dean of the medical school, has been elected a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The BMES bestows this honor in recognition of outstanding contributions and achievements in biomedical engineering.
NIH EUREKA Award Will Enable Design of New Brain Tumor Treatment
Ravi Bellamkonda | Via Georgia Tech News Center | August 10, 2010$1M grant awarded to Coulter Department professor Ravi Bellamkonda The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a EUREKA grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design a new way to treat invasive brain tumors by capturing the migrating cells that spread the disease. The EUREKA — Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration — […]
Mikos Wins Distinguished Scientist–Isaac Schour Memorial Award
Antonios Mikos | Via Rice University News | August 5, 2010Antonios Mikos has received the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Award–Isaac Schour Memorial Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). The award recognizes his outstanding scientific contributions in the anatomic sciences, including tissue engineering, tissue regeneration and stem cell research as it relates to the oral, dental and craniofacial complexes. The highest honor in the […]
Bioengineer Recognized for Research into Structure-Function Relationship of Heart Valves
Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | August 4, 2010Rice University’s Jane Grande-Allen has been selected for the 2011 A.J. Durelli Award by the Society for Experimental Mechanics Inc. (SEM) for her significant innovative contributions of new techniques in experimental mechanics. The award is given annually to recognize younger members of the society in honor of A.J. Durelli, one of the most outstanding experimental […]
UA Professor’s Autonomous Robotic Space Exploration Research Featured in Science Magazine
Wolfgang Fink | Via Arizona Engineer | August 3, 2010Science magazine recently published an article featuring UA professor Wolfgang Fink’s research on using intelligent robots for planetary exploration. Science was founded in 1880 using seed money provided by Thomas Edison, and has grown into the world’s most widely read general science journal, with more than a million readers worldwide. The main thrust of the […]
Ravi Bellamkonda Named Associate Vice President for Research
Ravi Bellamkonda | Via Georgia Tech News Center | July 26, 2010Three-year appointment allows continuation of research agenda Ravi Bellamkonda, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named an associate vice president within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR). The three-year appointment, which begins on August 1, enables Bellamkonda to divide his time evenly between his […]
Two UCSF Scientists Put Their Discoveries to Work
Tejal Desai | Via UC San Francisco | July 19, 2010Together, diabetes and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) drive billions of dollars in health care costs each year, while hampering quality of life and causing premature death in millions of people worldwide. Existing therapies, while helpful, are flawed. Now two projects funded by the National Institutes of Health at UCSF’s Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences […]
Bioengineering Promises Help to Patients, Cost Savings
Joseph Pancrazio | Via George Mason News | July 19, 2010Do engineers hold the key to cutting health care costs? By inventing new technologies that will help the sick and disabled to live more independently, they just might. Bioengineering applies engineering tools and approaches to solve problems in biology and medicine and has already had a substantial influence on medicine. Mason’s new bachelor of science […]
Milestone in Mind Control
Bin He | Via University of Minnesota | July 15, 2010Seated before a computer screen, Elissa Gutterman does what once seemed impossible: She guides a helicopter through virtual 3-D space by the force of her thoughts. Watching her move the helicopter is fun, but biomedical engineering professor Bin He has a serious purpose in mind. He hopes that someday his work on brain-computer interfaces will […]
Alan Waggoner Receives ISAC Distinguished Service Award-Department of Biological Sciences – Carnegie Mellon University
Alan Waggoner | Via Carnegie Mellon University | July 9, 2010The International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) presented Biological Sciences professor Alan Waggoner with the Distinguished Service Award at its 25th annual conference held in Seattle, Washington this spring. Waggoner is one of six eminent scientists to receive the honor, which acknowledges his significant contributions to both the advancement of flow cytometry and ISAC.
New Magnet to Sharpen Imaging Capabilities at Vanderbilt
John Gore | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | June 10, 2010The Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science has received a $3.45 million federal stimulus grant to purchase one of the world’s strongest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The 15 Tesla scanner will be used in studies of genetically engineered mice and other small animal models to further understanding of cancer, diabetes and brain disorders in […]
MassDevice Q & A: Boston Scientific Co-Founder John Abele
John Abele | Via MDT Magazine | June 9, 2010There aren’t many multi-billion-dollar companies that can say they got their start in the basement of a Catholic church rectory. Still fewer can claim a connection to a famous Czech mystic credited with pioneering research into human consciousness (and, not incidentally, with inventing the steerable catheter). But according to co-founder John Abele, Boston Scientific Corp. […]
Wyss Founding Director Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology
Donald Ingber | Via Wyss Institute | June 7, 2010Donald E. Ingber, MD, PhD, Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, today received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology in recognition of his trailblazing work in advancing the field of in vitro biology. Ingber has developed or applied several technologies — such as microcontact printing, cell magnetometry, laser nanosurgery, and […]
Shankar Subramaniam Named Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Shankar Subramaniam | Via UC San Diego | June 7, 2010Shankar Subramaniam has been named a Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), to assist the Organized Research Unit of the University of California, San Diego, in identifying new opportunities and solutions in the area of bioinformatics. Subramaniam’s appointment is effective June 1, 2010. Subramaniam, a professor of bioengineering, chemistry and biochemistry, cellular […]
$12 Million Grant to Fund New Approach to Cancer Study at Stanford
Sylvia K. Plevritis | Via Stanford Medicine | June 3, 2010The Stanford University School of Medicine has been awarded $12.8 million over five years by the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center for Cancer Systems Biology. The center is one of 12 recently funded by the NCI to stimulate integrative systems approaches and the application of computational modeling to cancer research. “Our work views […]
Pioneering Engineering Track of Study to Help Prevent Large-scale Disasters Like Gulf Oil Spill
Martha Bidez | Via University of Alabama at Birmingham | June 1, 2010A newly created and first-of-its-kind graduate-level track of study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering will educate engineers and safety, health and environmental professionals across industries in the best practices to prevent expansive disasters like the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Upper Big Branch Mine explosion […]
Zhang inducted into Austrian Academy of Sciences
Shuguang Zhang | Via MIT News | May 27, 2010Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, was inducted as a foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on May 19 in Vienna. Zhang is one of 13 foreign members elected this year to the academy, which was founded in 1847.
Pentagon to Troop-Killing Superbugs: Resistance Is Futile
Gregory N. Tew | Via Wired | May 24, 2010A super-germ that’s become a lethal threat to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may have met its match in a novel technique that kills entire bacterial colonies within hours. Today’s troops have a nine in 10 chance of surviving their battle injuries. But wounds and amputation sites leave them vulnerable to infection, especially by Acinetobacter […]
Libraries of Flesh: The Sorry State of Human Tissue Storage
Allison Hubel | Via Wired | May 24, 2010Located in hospitals, universities, nonprofit organizations, and pharmaceutical companies, biobanks play a quiet but crucial role in health care. Like libraries of the human organism, they archive a wide range of biospecimens—including blood, hair, sperm, saliva, plasma, whole organs, and purified DNA—to use in research and experimentation. From drug development to assisted reproduction, progress in […]