The feds just tapped this George Mason University spinout to identify the next virus outbreak
From the Ebola to chikungunya to the Zika virus, more outbreaks that used to be confined to tropical climates are making their way to U.S. soil.
Now a George Mason University spinout is being tapped to help find a better way to identify future threats.
Ceres Nanosciences and George Mason University will join Seattle-based biomedical engineering company Tasso Inc. to develop a universal surveillance platform for infectious disease outbreak s. The $11.7 million program, which is being led by the U.S.… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 28, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tina Reed Source Type: news
UTSA receives $350,000 grant for prostate cancer research
(University of Texas at San Antonio) Jing Yong Ye, professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a two-year, $354,617 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute to support the development of his noninvasive method of detecting prostate cancer. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 25, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Developing highly specific computer models to better diagnose concussions in real time
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) As fall sports seasons get under way and concerns related to concussions in contact sports continue to grow, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute biomedical engineering professor is developing better tools to understand the mechanics of traumatic brain injuries in athletes. With two grants from the National Institutes of Health, Songbai Ji is using advanced neuroimaging to develop highly specific computer models of the head and brain to better diagnose concussions in real time. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Electrical nerve-block research aims at asthma, heart failure
(Case Western Reserve University) Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block implant, focusing their next step on new applications related to treating asthma and heart failure. The research builds on applications already in use for pain management and was bolstered recently by a four-year, $2 million National Institutes of Health grant. The research will be conducted in collaboration with teams at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 29, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
UAB receives $4.8 million biomedical engineering grant
The University of Alabama at Birmingham aims to make headway in cardiovascular research this fall when $4.8 million in grants arrive from the National Institutes of Health.
The grants will be awarded to biomedical engineering research that plans to attack two aspects of cardiovascular disease - heart failure after heart attacks and resistant high blood pressure. Two UAB investigators will be dividing the grant - Jiyani Zhang and Gangjian Qin.
Zhang, who is the chair and professor of the biomedical… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 25, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news
Disease diagnostics take top honors of DEBUT biomedical engineering design competition
NIH and VentureWell support undergraduate biomedical engineering challenge seeking innovative devices to improve health globally. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - August 25, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New biomedical engineering grants aim at heart failure and resistant high blood pressure
(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease -- heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of resistant high blood pressure -- with $4.8 million in National Institutes of Health grants that begin this fall. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 24, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
SPM in Real Life: Summer ‘17
NEW MEMBERS: Summer ‘17
Welcome new member, Geoffrey Milos! Geoffrey writes that he has a great interest in electronic health records (EHR) and how they enable individuals to more fully participate in the management of their own health care. Patient access to their respective, complete EHR is key to this empowerment. Individuals seem to be making progress on this front, slowly but surely. Geoffrey is interested in active innovators in the personal health care application space, specifically applications that can accept provider-sourced EHR inputs and other organizations that actively promote individual access to EHR da...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - August 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nanette Mattox Tags: Newsletter Community Members New Members Summer '17 Source Type: news
So Youve Been Mistaken as a White Nationalist
Biomedical engineer Kyle Quinn fends off a frenzied Internet mob after being wrongly identified as a Charlottesville protester. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - August 18, 2017 Category: Science Tags: Daily News Source Type: news
UCLA researchers demonstrate new material that could aid body ’s cellular repair process
A research team led by UCLA biomolecular engineers and doctors has demonstrated a therapeutic material that could one day promote better tissue regeneration following a wound or a stroke.During the body ’s typical healing process, when tissues like skin are damaged the body grows replacement cells. Integrins are class of proteins that are important in the cellular processes critical to creating new tissue. One of the processes is cell adhesion, when new cells “stick” to the materials between cells, called the extracellular matrix. Another is cell migration, where at the cell’s surface, integrins help “pull” the...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 15, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Liposomes triggered by ultrasound enable targeted pain-relief
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a technology to non-invasively trigger the release of nerve-blocking agents, helping to provide targeted pain-relief to patients as an alternative to addictive opioids.
The team’s work was published yesterday in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
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Source: Mass Device - August 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Drug-Device Combinations Pain Management Pharmaceuticals Research & Development Ultrasound Boston Children's Hospital Source Type: news
A sodium surprise
(Washington University in St. Louis) Irregular heartbeat -- or arrhythmia -- can have sudden and often fatal consequences. A biomedical engineering team at Washington University in St. Louis examining molecular behavior in cardiac tissue recently made a surprising discovery that could someday impact treatment of the life-threatening condition. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 20, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Antibiotic-eluting polymer could help treat prosthetic joint infections
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an antibiotic-eluting polymer that could be used to treat infections in orthopedic implants, according to a report published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Traditionally, treating a prosthetic joint infection involves removing an implant and replacing it with a temporary spacer made from antibiotic-releasing bone cement for at least six weeks. Then, a second surgery is needed to give the patient a new prosthesis.
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Source: Mass Device - July 19, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Drug-Device Combinations Implants Pharmaceuticals Prosthetics Research & Development Surgical Massachusetts General Hospital Source Type: news
A heart attack in a petri dish
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) In her laboratory at NJIT, biomedical engineer Alice Lee develops tiny proto-hearts from stem cells that she subjects to 'attacks' to observe in real-time how the heart repairs itself. With National Science Foundation funding, she aims to advance cell-based therapies, unsuccessful as yet in part due to limited knowledge of the biological mechanisms of the transplanted stem cells. To date, researchers have focused on mimicking healthy hearts with the goal of providing living surgical replacements. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Using an automated screening test that they devised, William Murphy, a professor of biomedical engineering, and colleagues Eric Nguyen and William Daly have invented an all-chemical replacement for the confusing, even dangerous materials, now used to grow stem cells. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
