Announcements
Congratulations to all BME graduates!
The department congratulates the graduates of the class of 2020 who will be receiving their degrees during virtual commencement on Saturday, May 23. There is usually a departmental graduation ceremony held the day before graduation, however, due to the campus being closed, the department has instead put together a video about the graduating class which can be found here:
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were announced today and Christopher Wiedeman has been selected as a winner of the NSF fellowship. Chris is a first year graduate student who works under the supervision of Dr. Ge Wang.
In addition to the fellowships, two current/former students, have revived honorable mentions: Derek Nelson and Sara Harper.
Deva Chan receives NSF CAREER award
Deva Chan has been issued an award by the National Science Foundation for her proposal "CAREER: Regulation of Hyaluronan Production and Function by Biomechanical Signals". This is a five year award for close to $600k and is considered NSF's flagship award for new investigators. A detailed description of the summary of the proposed work can be found below.
About the NSF CAREER award:
Article by Juergen Hahn's group on cover of I&EC Research
The paper "Biomarker Identification of Complex Diseases/Disorders: Methodological Parallels to Parameter Estimation" was featured on the cover of the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. The authors are Genevieve Grivas, Troy Vargason, both of who are students in Juergen Hahn's group, and their supervisor.
The abstract of the paper is shown below:
The annual graduate symposium was held on Wednesday, January 15, 2020. The graduate students presented their research as either podium or poster presentation to their peers, the faculty, and a group of judges. The presentations were of very high quality reflecting the research performed by the students. Several awards were presented to the students at the end of the symposium. Specifically, these were:
Podium talks:
1st Place: Genevieve Grivas
2nd Place: Devan Puhl
Honorary mentions: Cassandra Roberge and Ahmad Arabiyat
Posters:
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: