August 16, 2019 University of Minnesota Medical School
A new study by PhD student Nicole Provenza and Assistant Professor David Borton with their collaborators at UMN, published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, could improve patients' abilities to manage symptoms of mental illness.
August 12, 2019 News from Brown
In a finding that could shed light on tissue formation, wound healing and cancer spread, a new study shows that human cells follow the same rules as non-living particles to form fractal-like branching structures.
August 1, 2019 School of Engineering
BME poster presenters included Michelle Adler '20 (Wong lab), Shoham Benmelech ’21 (Wong lab), Evan Dastin-van Rijn ’21 (Borton lab), Eric DuBois ’20 (Wong lab), Andrea Llamas Sanchez ’22 (Coulombe lab), Christian Landis ‘20 (Kingon & Morse), Prince Ncube ’22 (Kingon & Morse), Thomas Usherwood ’22 (Tripathi lab), and Victoria Vafaee ’20 (Colvin lab).
July 11, 2019 News from Brown
Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact will award five faculty projects $100,000 each to accelerate promising medical solutions into commercial technologies. Morgan will use the award to advance a method of producing lab-grown, human-derived tissue to repair the heart after a heart attack. Carl Saab will use his award to apply his objective EEG-based test for measuring pain to aid in the diagnosis of acute and chronic low back pain.
July 10, 2019 Brown Alumni Magazine
Despite the demands of her concentration in biomedical engineering, Hsieh devoted many hours to practicing and playing with the Brown women’s [rugby] team and was a fearless competitor as a fullback.
July 9, 2019 School of Engineering
Assistant Professor Anita Shukla is among the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, the nation’s top honor for early-career scientists and engineers.
June 5, 2019 News from Brown
Fawzi’s award will support his work studying the interactions of disordered proteins within cellular assemblies. His project will serve as the foundation for understanding the structure, interactions, regulation and function of an entire class of RNA processing assemblies whose dysfunction has implications for several neurodegenerative diseases.
May 26, 2019 Commencement
30 ScB, 18 ScM, and 8 PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering were awarded at Commencement on May 26, 2019.
May 24, 2019 School of Engineering
Tayhas Palmore has been named the Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering. Palmore is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair that was made possible with the generous support of multiple donors and is named in honor of Elaine Savage Sc.M. ’74 Ph.D. ’76, who is the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in engineering from Brown.
May 20, 2019 Retreat
BME and Biotechnology students, faculty, and staff gathered at Whispering Pines Conference Center for an overnight retreat aimed at professional development and community building. Highlights included talks by Assistant Professor Vikas Srivastava and alum Michael Harrison '95 PhD'07, an elevator pitch competition, and a campfire!