OHSU's Mr. Gray goes to Washington to champion foreign collaboration in science
Joe Gray, chair of Biomedical Engineering, said while there have been instances of espionage and theft, the U.S. government shouldn't overreact. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 6, 2019 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
Expert in dynamical systems elected a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) Maurizio Porfiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and biomedical engineering known for his research in dynamical systems, has been selected as a fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Porfiri, who directs the Dynamical Systems Laboratory at NYU Tandon, is recognized for a decade of research contributions spanning several areas, including biomimetic robotics, collective behavior, multiphysics modeling, and complex systems. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 31, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
National Academy of Medicine Announces 10 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced the 2019 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from microbiology and surgery to sociology and biomedical engineering. (Source: News from the National Academies)
Source: News from the National Academies - May 23, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: news
How Some Generic Drugs Could Do More Harm Than Good
For the 16 years that Dr. Brian Westerberg, a Canadian surgeon, worked volunteer missions at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, scarcity was the norm. The patients usually exceeded the 1,500 allotted beds. Running water was once cut off when the debt-ridden hospital was unable to pay its bills. On some of his early trips, Westerberg even brought over drugs from Canada in order to treat patients. But as low-cost generics made in India and China became widely available through Uganda’s government and international aid agencies in the early 2000s, it seemed at first like the supply issue had been ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Eban Tags: Uncategorized generic drugs medication medicine Source Type: news
Paul Sajda awarded DoD's Vannevar Bush Fellowship
(Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science) Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, has won the 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. This honor is the US DoD's most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact. The 5-year, $3M fellowship will support Sajda's research in cognitive neuroscience. 'This fellowship will support any of my 'blue sky' research ideas,' Sajda says, 'and will really help me pursue some research directions that are very risky.' (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Chemotherapy or not?
Case Western Reserve University researchers and partners, including a collaborator at Cleveland Clinic, are pushing the boundaries of how "smart" diagnostic-imaging machines identify cancers - and uncovering clues outside the tumor to tell whether a patient will respond well to chemotherapy.
The recent findings in breast and lung cancer research build off work pioneered by biomedical engineering professor Anant Madabhushi, founder of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 24, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers
(Michigan Technological University) Imagine wounds that heal without scars. It's possible with electrospun nanofibers. A team from Michigan Tech streamlined the tissue scaffold production process, cutting out time spent removing toxic solvents and chemicals. Using a unique blend of polymers, they hope to speed up biomedical engineering prototyping using identical materials for a range of tests. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NYU Tandon professor inducted into biomedical engineering elite
(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering has inducted Jin Kim Montclare, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, to its College of Fellows. AIMBE cited her 'outstanding contributions to biomaterials and biocatalyst design via synthetic biology and protein engineering.'She has developed protein-lipid macromolecule systems that can deliver genes, nanoparticles, and drugs for potential treatment of multi-drug resistant cancer cells, diabetes, and other conditions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 26, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Homeland Security Warns of Cybersecurity Flaws Affecting Medtronic ICDs
The Department of Homeland Security and FDA alerted healthcare providers and patients last week about cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in a wireless telemetry technology used for communication between Medtronic’s implantable defibrillators, clinical programmers, and home monitors.
FDA said healthcare providers and patients should continue to use these devices as intended and follow device labeling. The agency said the system's overall design features help safeguard patients, and that the company is developing updates to further mitigate t...
Source: MDDI - March 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Software Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news
Lian receives ENGINE grant for stem-cell-based diabetes therapy
(Penn State) Xiaojun 'Lance' Lian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was one of three recipients of the College of Engineering's ENGineering for Innovation& Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant for 'Small Molecule-Based Definitive Endoderm Kit and Pancreatic Progenitor Kit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy.' The project focuses on differentiating stem cells into pancreatic beta cells to be used for therapies to treat Type 1 diabetes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Engineering treatments for the opioid epidemic
(Washington University in St. Louis) A biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is developing a therapeutic option that would prevent opiates from crossing the blood-brain barrier, preventing the high abusers seek. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
UTSA BRAVe program grows research pipeline to help active and military vets
(University of Texas at San Antonio) The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will launch a new program aimed at boosting student engagement and retention. The Biomedical Engineering Research for Active military and Veterans (BRAVe) program will target undergraduate students, including those at two-year colleges or who haven't declared majors, and place them in a 10-week summer research lab program to work on projects including: regeneration of damaged tissue, non-invasive tissue recovery, and/or treating soldiers in the battlefield. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
In small groups, people follow high-performing leaders
(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have cracked the code on how leaders arise from small groups of people over time. The work is detailed in a study, 'Social information and Spontaneous Emergence of Leaders in Human Groups,' published in The Royal Society Interface. The team included Maurizio Porfiri, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of biomedical engineering at NYU Tandon and Shinnosuke Nakayama, postdoctoral researcher at NYU Tandon. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Leadership in biomedical engineering
(University of Delaware) Dawn Elliott, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been recognized as the inaugural recipient of the Orthopaedic Research Society's Adele L. Boskey, PhD Award. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 21, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
