Claire Sise '18, Luke Morales '18, Matthew Lo '18, and Matthew Borges MechE '19 will develop their venture Koi Prosthetics with B-Lab this summer.

Two BME PhD students, Amanda Khoo and Travis Wallace, were selected for the interdisciplinary Open Graduate Education program, which provides the flexibility and resources to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates. Amanda will add a master’s in Data Science, and Travis will add a master's in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Engineering (PRIME).

"Passion in a field will not only make the mandatory course load more relevant, but also provide a long-term dream of fulfillment that can motivate through the hours of study. Also, finding your passion can lead to promising relationships with faculty members that can be great resources for research, academic, professional and other opportunities." - Joshua Daniel

"In the case of many diseases, the technology is available to diagnose, treat and cure a patient, but, these technologies are often not feasible for those who have the greatest need. In order to truly reduce the global burden of disease, we need to approach problems from a multidisciplinary perspective, and combining a Master of Public Health with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering will allow me to do just that." -Rachel Deraney

The Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition is an annual design competition open to full-time graduate and undergraduate groups that encourages the teams to pitch designs to address major unresolved clinical needs, and to think about the necessary steps to move their ideas to commercialization. Hosted by Johns Hopkins Center for Biomedical Innovation & Design (CBID) in Baltimore, MD, the competition was open for the first time this year to teams from around the world, and attracted over 100 design proposals. Ten or fewer teams were ultimately selected as finalists in each of three categories: Healthcare Information Technology, Global Health, and Advanced Health Systems. Selected finalists hailed from 16 academic institutions from across three continents. Brown University was represented by both the Mobius and the EmboNet teams, in the Advanced Health Systems division.

The 1^st Annual Brown University Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) retreat held on April 11^th brought together the interdisciplinary research team from Brown’s Center to Advance Predictive Biology (CAPB) with world-leading experts in environmental toxicity testing. The day focused on the first year of progress on the 5-year, $2.5 million grant: Human 3D Microtissues for Toxicity Testing via Integrated Imaging, Molecular and Functional Analyses (U01 ES028184) awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).