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Ian Wong featured as Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator

Ian Wong featured as Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator - in recognition of some of the best work in the field of miniaturisation at the micro- and nano-scale, being conducted by early-career researchers.

Jeffrey Morgan is Co-PI on $19M NSF EPSCOR Award

The new initiative, supported by a $19 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will focus on monitoring and predicting the impacts of climate variability on Narragansett Bay. Geoff Bothun, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, is the grant’s principal investigator. Jeffrey Morgan, a professor of medicine and engineering at Brown, will serve as one of the grant’s co-principal investigators.

Pirozzi ’18 Embraces Translational Approach to Medicine

DiMase Summer Fellow Ileana Pirozzi '18 was recently featured on the Brown School of Engineering site.

BMES 2017 - Phoenix, AZ

Brown students and researchers presented 6 oral presentations and 15 posters at the annual BMES conference.

October Faculty Spotlight - Braden Fleming

"When I was a junior in high school, I had a serious finger injury. Because the hospital was overfilled, I was treated in a nurses’ lounge. I talked to a nurse and told her about my interests, and she suggested biomedical engineering to me. That set the stage and once I got a taste of research experience at UVM I fell in love with the field and it sealed the deal."

Teams from BME Win Top Awards at Brown’s Second Annual Hack Health

GrowUPS team members Matthew Lo ’18 (biomedical engineering), Alexander Lo ’18 (biomedical engineering), Mark Hays ’18 (biomedical engineering), and Franklin Tarke ’18 (mechanical engineering) took first place and overall Best Engineering Project. Brown’s SimpleIR, made up of team members Sarah Syrop ’17 ScM ’18 (biomedical engineering), Kabisa Baughen ’17 ScM ’18 (biomedical engineering), Christina Andrews ’17 ScM ’18 (biomedical engineering), Karisma Chhabria ’19, Wellesley’s Subha Baniya, MIT graduate Raymond Asare, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Research Associate Prakrit Jena, took third place. Anubhav Tripathi gave opening remarks on Friday evening, Trey Crisco served as a mentor on Saturday, and Celinda Kofron was part of the judging panel on Sunday.

Recent Collaborative Publications from Our Researchers

Braden Fleming, Leigh Hochberg, and Gregory Jay have recently co-authored collaborative research articles.

August Faculty Spotlight - Arto Nurmikko

"In the physical sciences experiments fail more often than not, and in the biological sciences experiments fail even more often than that."

September Faculty Spotlight - Michelle Dawson

"When I was an undergraduate, I thought I wanted to be a nurse, but at a public library, I came across the book The Transformed Cell by Stephen Rosenberg. It was a story filled with the trials and tribulations to generate one vial of interleukin-2. I was so amazed by his seemingly insurmountable goal, but the scope and the impact made it seem worth it to me. I look where he is now, but when he started people didn’t believe him. He believed it and persevered through giving up a lot of things to be a pioneer in immunotherapy."

Wong Lab - Stereolithographic printing of ionically-crosslinked alginate hydrogels for degradable biomaterials and microfluidics

The Wong lab has developed 3D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand. Their article in Lab on a Chip demonstrates that alginate can be patterned with a technique called stereolithography, and these patterns can be degraded by manipulating the ions present in solution. BME graduate student Thomas Valentin was the lead author on the study entitled, Stereolithographic printing of ionically-crosslinked alginate hydrogels for degradable biomaterials and microfluidics. BME alumni Jaskitanjeet (Jessica) Sodhi (ScM '17) and Hayley McClintock (ScB '16) were also authors on the paper.

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