Announcements

Dr. Dai has been awarded a four-year American Heart Association's National Scientist Development Grant ($308,000). The grant, awarded to junior faculty at their early career stage, is one of the most prestigious awards in Cardiovascular Medicine. The title of the project is "Arterial venous differentiation for tissue engineering application." In this project, Dr.

One of the major challenges in tissue engineering field is the lack of a functional vasculature with adequate perfusion. Biomedical Engineering Department faculty Dr. Xavier Intes and Dr. Guohao Dai have led the team of investigators to develop an integrated platform that combines 3-D tissue printing and 3-D tissue imaging to study vasculature formation in thick tissues.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Deanna Thompson is utilizing more than $300,000 in New York state funding as part of the state stem cell research program, NYSTEM, to study adult neural stem cells. The NYSTEM program is New York’s $600 million publicly funded grant program to advance scientific discovery in the area of stem cells. For more information, please read the article in RPI News.

Dr. Corr received an NSF Career Award for his project, entitled "CAREER: Engineering Functional Muscle - Tendon Structures using Scaffold - Free Cell - Based Directed Assembly and Theoretical Modeling". He was also awarded an NIH two year R56 grant to investigate the "Control of Stem Cell Microenvironments for White and Brown Adipogenesis" from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

We are happy to announce that the collaboration between RPI’s BME Capstone Design and the Center for Disability Services has been awarded this year’s annual Technology Innovation Award by the Center for Economic Growth. The award is based on the strong collaboration between our Capstone Design course and the work our students have done over the last 6 years with the Center for Disability Services. Within RPI, we share the recognition with the MDL who has worked with the Center for the last two years.

Department of Biomedical Engineering RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Undergraduate Seminar Series in Global Health Presents Dr. Eric H. Ledet Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tuesday, April 3, 2012 4:00 p.m. Academy Hall Auditorium A Tale of Two Systems: Immersion in South African Health CareAdequate healthcare remains a significant challenge in developing nations. State-of-the-art technology and equipment are often unsustainable. Accessibility of facilities is often prohibitive due to limited infrastructure.

The Biomedical Engineering Department would like to congratulate Christopher Rivet on his achievement as a finalist for the Lemelson-MIT award! Christopher's project, titled "A Hydrogel and Electrospun Fiber Composite Material," is one of the three finalists for the 2012 prize. The award will be presented March 7. Additional information regarding the Lemelson-MIT award can be found here: http://www.eng.rpi.edu/lemelson

It is a great pleasure to share the news that Ryan Gilbert has received an NSF Career Award for the project entitled: "CAREER: Study of Astrocyte Migration and Reactivity Using Novel Biomaterial Platforms". The award, totaling $496,366 over a period of five years, is funded by the Division of Materials Research/ Biomaterials Program. The grant will support the Gilbert laboratory's pursuit of developing novel biomaterial strategies for treatment of spinal cord injury.