BME students Akshit Chhabra ’23, Nova Chin-Hua Chavez Dea ’24, Emma Lynn Hagenaars ’24, Daniel Gabriel McDermott ’23, Evrim Efe Ozcan ’24, Connor Francis Purcell ’24,  Joshua Saskin (AB) ’23, Finja Alexandra Scholz ’24,  Jonah Evan Schwam ’23, Caroline Ann Snyder ’24, and Albert Qize Wu ’24 were inducted into Tau Beta Pi. They join  Mallory Ehlers ’23 and Ariana O’Brien ’23 inducted last year. 

Riley Flores ’22.5 received the best research presentation award at the 2022 National Convention of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, held in Charlotte, N.C. Her presentation, titled “A Device for Multiplexed Processing of Glioblastoma Spheroids,” is part of a research project in the University’s Tripathi Laboratory for Microfluidic Diagnostics and Biomedical Engineering, supervised by engineering PhD candidate Cel Welch GS.

Kiara Lee, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was recently published in ACS Analytical Chemistry for her research on a new testing method of dried blood spots (DBSs). Lee’s research provides a new, simpler way to test DBSs, which are commonly used to analyze blood for a variety of purposes, including pharmacological testing, genetic analyses, monitoring of viral infections and more. DBSs are an alternative method to collect blood for disease testing because their collection is less invasive than other techniques. 

Forbes Magazine unveiled its 30 under 30 Class of 2023 yesterday, recognizing young leaders that are turning to entrepreneurship to solve the world’s biggest problems. Brown biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate Cel Welch was among the honorees in the science category, landing on the list for their research focusing on the creation of new technologies for cellular diagnostics, such as novel electrical and electronic devices, microfluidics, and machine learning techniques.

"We're using cutting edge imaging technology to predict Alzheimer's before symptoms start." -Jonghwan Lee