Announcements
Xavier Intes, Xun Wang, and Uwe Kruger win SoE awards
Three biomedical engineering faculty have been selected to receive awards from the School of Engineering. Xavier Intes will receive the Research Excellence Award and Uwe Kruger will win a Research Excellence Award in the clinical faculty category while Xun Wang will receive an Education Innovation Award. The award ceremony will be held at the SoE Faculty Achievement and Recognition Dinner on Thursday, November 21st, 2019.
Liz Blaber's experiment to participate in space mission
Elizabeth Blaber has recently been awarded a NASA Space Biology grant to participate on the BionM2 spaceflight mission with RosCosmos. The title of her grant is "Single cell analysis of bone marrow progenitor and differentiated progeny populations in response to long-duration spaceflight" and the mission is scheduled to launch in 2022.
Gilbert group and collaborators publish article in Nature Communications
The paper "Vastly Extended Drug Release from Poly(pro-17β-Estradiol) Materials Facilitates in vitro Neurotrophism and Neuroprotection" was published in Nature Communications. The paper is a collaboration between Ryan Gilbert's group in Biomedical Engineering and Ed Palermo's group in Materials Science. The authors are Anthony D'Amato, Devan Puhl, Samuel Ellman, Bailey Balouch, Ryan Gilbert, and Edmund Palermo.
The abstract of the paper is shown below:
Four biomedical engineering students will be honored with Rensselaer's Founders awards. The award recipients are: Jessica L. Funnell, Jonathan Kulwatno, Nicos Prokopiou, and Haokang Zhang The Founders Award of Excellence was established in 1994 to honor students who embody qualities of creativity, discovery, leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer. The award consists of a special certificate, recognition by faculty, staff, and peers at the Honors Convocation ceremony, and a cash prize.
Xavier Intes elected OSA Fellow
Xavier Intes has been elected a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) by the Board of Directors during their 16 September 2019 meeting in Washington, DC. Since 1959, over 2,500 members have joined the ranks of OSA Fellow. These members have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business and society.
Juergen Hahn invited to Speak to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board
Juergen Hahn, the head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been invited to speak at the next meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST). Hahn also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Joan Llabre receives 2019 ASBMR Young Investigator Award
Joan Llabre, a graduate student in Dr. Deepak Vashisht's lab, has received a 2019 ASBMR Young Investigator Award for her abstract presentation Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Combination with High-Fat Diet alters Glycemic Control and impair Bone Health.
Eric Ledet promoted to Professor
The Rensselaer Board of Trustees has approved Eric Ledet's promotion to the rank of Professor. Eric Ledet joined the Rensselaer faculty in 2005 as an assistant professor and he was promoted to associate professor in 2012. In 2013, Dr. Ledet received the Board of Trustees' Outstanding Teacher Award and in 2015 he was awarded the ISSLS prize by the International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine and the journal SPINE. Dr. Ledet's laboratory focuses on translational orthopaedic biomechanics and medical device design.