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New Vaccine that Elicit Pulmonary Cytotoxic T Cell Responses
Jeffrey Hubbell | Via École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne | November 2, 2011Nanoparticle conjugation of antigen enhances cytotoxic T-cell responses in pulmonary vaccination. Disulfide-linked nanoparticle-antigen conjugates could be useful for creating vaccines that elicit pulmonary cytotoxic T cell responses. As shown by the groups of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell (LMRP – Merck Serono Chair in Drug Delivery) and Prof. Melody Swartz (LLCB – Laboratory of Lymphatic and Cancer […]
Scientist’s Revolutionary Drug Pump Draws NSF Support
Ellis Meng | Via University of Southern California News | November 2, 2011Last month, for the first time in 11 years, USC associate professor Ellis Meng found herself raising her hand and asking questions in the classroom – not answering them. Meng, whose research at USC focuses on developing a tiny, implantable medication-delivery system, is enrolled in a business crash-course sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]
Paul Benkeser, Ph.D: Reflections of the Outgoing Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Paul Benkeser | Via Pioneer | November 1, 2011Stemming from the tremendous growth of the department, several changes were made within the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s administration faculty shortly before the commencement of the 2011-2012 academic year. Paul Benkeser, Ph.D. was the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for almost ten years, and has been with the Coulter Department since its […]
Harvard Med School Researchers Help Direct Stem Cells
Jeffrey Karp | Via Boston Business Journal | October 31, 2011Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and other hospitals have taken a step toward making stem cell therapies more effective by adding homing receptors to those cells. Attaching the chemical receptors to stem cells has the potential to increase the concentration of cells at target locations in the body, according to the researchers, who published […]
Lung Regeneration Closer to Reality With New Discovery by Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers
Sina Rabbany | Via Weill Cornell Medical College | October 28, 2011Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to “turn on” lung regeneration — an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. In the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Cell, the research team reports that they have uncovered the biochemical […]
Programming Cells to Home to Specific Tissues may Enable More Effective Cell-based Therapies
Jeffrey Karp | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | October 27, 2011Stem cell therapies hold enormous potential to address some of the most tragic illnesses, diseases, and tissue defects world-wide. However, the inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier to effective cell therapy. To address this hurdle, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a platform approach to chemically […]
FDA Awards University of Maryland a New Center for Regulatory Science
William Bentley | Via UMD Newsdesk | October 26, 2011Maryland is one of two new centers that will pilot ways universities can help improve how drugs and medical devices are evaluated. The University of Maryland has created a new Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), funded by an initial $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The center […]
President Obama Awards Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien National Medal of Science in White House Ceremony
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | October 25, 2011What did UC San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien and President Barack Obama talk about as Chien received the National Medal of Science from the president Friday at the White House? About the importance of science education and research, of course. The president had just given a short speech on that topic, before bestowing the […]
Giorgio is BMES 2011 Fellow
Todd D. Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | October 24, 2011Todd Giorgio, professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department at Vanderbilt University, is a member of the 2011 class of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Fellows. The six newly elected fellows were nominated by their peers and elected by the BMES Fellows Committee chaired by board member Nicholas A. Peppas of the University of Texas.
Bioengineer David Mooney Honored with Senior Scientist Award
David Mooney | Via Harvard SEAS | October 21, 2011Honor From The Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society-North America Recognizes His Significant Contributions On behalf of the Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society-North America (TERMIS-NA), Harvard’s David Mooney has been awarded the Senior Scientist Award. Mooney is the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and […]
Shu Chien to Receive National Medal of Science in White House Ceremony on Oct. 21
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | October 19, 2011President Barack Obama will present University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). The ceremony will be carried live by satellite feed and webcast on the White House website at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live. Chien will be […]
Research Teams Win IBB, Hamill Awards
Kyriacos Zygourakis | Via Rice University News | October 19, 2011Fortified foods, pediatric heart valves that grow with a patient and the effects of biochar on microbes are among the winners of awards presented by Rice University’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB). The Hamill Awards and IBB Medical Innovations Awards, which include seed grants, will be presented Nov. 29. The Hamill Foundation and the […]
Biology Rides to Computers’ Aid
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 18, 2011Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity. Cost-effective ways of producing them have proved elusive, but researchers have recently been turning toward a surprising source for help: DNA molecules. In a paper […]
$1.35 Million to Fisher Lab for Development of Bone Regeneration Technology
John Fisher | Via UMD Bioengineering | October 18, 2011A proposal to advance the development of a system for regenerating large areas of bone in patients with serious injuries has received a four year, $1.35 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Clark School Associate Professor and Associate Chair John […]
Dr. David Fischell, CEO Angel Medical Systems Discusses AngelMed Implantable Heart Attack Medical Device Detection System—Video Interview AdvaMed 2011 Conference
David Fischell | Via Stock News Now | October 12, 2011David Fischell, CEO of Angel Medical Systems spoke with our host at the AdvaMed Conference 2011 in Washington D.C. to discuss AngelMed’s latest Medical Device. AngelMed came to AdvaMed to talk about their implantable heart attack detection system called the AngelMed Guardian Cardiac Monitor and Alert System that “detects and warns patients of acute episodes […]
Coté Elected BMES Fellow
Gerard Cote | Via TAMU Times | October 10, 2011Dr. Gerard L. Coté, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Charles H. & Bettye Barclay Professor, has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Class of 2011 Fellows.
Light Can Detect Pre-Cancerous Colon Cells
Adam P. Wax | Via Duke Engineering | October 10, 2011After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary experiments. This technology could be a non-invasive way for physicians to detect abnormal cells, or dysplasia, which have the potential of turning […]
Shutting Off Inflammation
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 9, 2011Using short snippets of RNA to turn off a specific gene in certain immune cells, scientists have shown that they can shut off the inflammation responsible for diseases such as atherosclerosis. This technique, known as RNA interference, offers a targeted way to stop inflammation and could be useful in treating not only atherosclerosis, but also […]
$6.3 Million Center at UCSF and UC Davis Seeks Ways to Diagnose and Prevent Osteoarthritis
Sharmila Majumdar | Via UC San Francisco | October 6, 2011How people walk, jump and run and how their knees look in an MRI scanner may hold the secret to predicting years or even decades in advance whether they will develop osteoarthritis, the common degenerative joint disease that strikes half of all Americans by the time they reach the age of 70. Doctors today cannot […]
William A. Hawkins Appointed New CEO of Immucor
William Hawkins | Via Immucor Investor Relations | October 6, 2011The Board of Directors of Immucor, Inc. announced today that William A. Hawkins will be Immucor’s next CEO. Immucor, Inc. is a private company, wholly owned by TPG Capital. Mr. Hawkins’ appointment follows the decision of current CEO Joshua Levine to step down from his role. The transition will be effective October 17, 2011. In […]