Fleming Lab: FDA Authorizes Marketing of New Implant to Repair a Torn ACL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization—under the De Novo premarket review pathway—for an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) implant, intended to serve as an alternative to ACL reconstruction to treat ACL tears. Professor Braden Fleming and his collaborators developed the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair (BEAR) Implant.

Tripathi Lab: Johnny Boustany ’22 and Nathalie Westres ’22 focus on gathering user-centered data to inform their engineering summer projectncy of testing, types of tests

Boustany and Westres originally planned to work on developing a saliva-based diagnostic technique in the Tripathi lab. But due to the pandemic, the student researchers, who are studying remotely, pivoted to virtual projects, including a survey to identify students’ preferences for the frequency of testing, types of tests — saliva-based or nasal-based — and the testing process.

Researchers discuss BrainGate, restorative neurotechnology at Brown and beyond

On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Brown engineering professors David Borton and Leigh Hochberg sat down for a virtual discussion about the future of restorative neurotechnology as well as its history at Brown. Neuroscientists Diane Lipscombe, director of Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science, and Christopher Moore, associate director, hosted the event, which is part of a series called Carney Conversations. 

Experimental treatment conceived by Josh Cohen '14 might hold promise for slowing progression of ALS and Alzheimers

Patients who took the medication — initially dreamed up over beers and obsessive internet searching in a Brown University dormitory — retained a higher level of certain motor functions than those given a placebo, according to the researchers’ study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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