Announcements

Two faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering Department were honored at the 2017 Trustee Celebration. Specifically, the honored faculty were: - Ryan Gilbert (received School of Engineering 2017 Classroom Excellence Award) - Juergen Hahn (appointed to IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors) Congratulations to everyone! This has been a successful year for the department.

Seeking the Secret Sauce of Graduate School Success

BME Faculty Highlights Series Professor Deepak Vashishth and the Success Stories of his Former Students This article is the third in a series aimed at spotlighting the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI. In this series, we will highlight biomedical research areas, cutting edge engineering techniques, student and trainee successes, as well as the broader societal impacts of the work in BME.

Sending Teachers Back to School

BME Faculty Highlights Series Associate Professor Deanna Thompson and the Pre-College Teachers Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Bioengineering This article is the second in a series aimed at spotlighting the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI. In this series, we will highlight biomedical research areas, cutting edge engineering techniques, student and trainee successes, as well as the broader societal impacts of the work in BME.

Eight biomedical engineering students will be honored with Rensselaer's Founders awards. The award recipients are: Khaled T. Abdoun, Allison K. Fleck, Lydia R. Krauss, Taylor M. MacEwen, Kuwabo Mubyana, John C. Ramsdell, Theodor A. Ross, Hayley M. Roy Gill 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.

Denzel Faulkner, a graduate student supervised by Dr. Xavier Intes, has won the Young Scholar's Award of the Road from Nanomedicine to Precision Medicine Conference, an annual and international event. The title of his poster was "Multispectral Mesoscopic Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (MFMT)". More detail about the Pharmaceutical Research Institute which sponsored the conference can be found on their web site: https://pri-albany.org/

Do cells lean left or right?

BME Faculty Highlights Series Associate Professor Leo Wan and the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Morphogenesis This article is the first in a series aimed at spotlighting the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI. In this series, we will highlight biomedical research areas, cutting edge engineering techniques, student and trainee successes, as well as the broader societal impacts of the work in BME.

Pingkun Yan's paper titled "Detection and Grading of Prostrate Cancer using Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound: Combining Deep Neural Networks and Tissue Mimicking Simulations" has won the best paper award of a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery devoted to papers presented at the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) conference. The abstract of the paper is shown below: PURPOSE: Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound (TeUS) has been proposed as a new paradigm for tissue characterization based on a sequence of ultrasound radio fr

Due to the generosity of Dr. Peter A. Torzilli, M.S.’70, Ph.D.’74, the department is able to establish the Torzilli Family Endowed Fund for Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Engineering. This fund recognizes the need for technically educated people who will serve the betterment of mankind through the application of engineering and science to the common purposes of life. The fund recognizes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as one of the finest universities and a leader in providing an excellent and rigorous technical education - preparing its students to contribute to a better world.