biomedical engineering
December 10, 2015
Combining nanotechnology with traditional chemotherapy drug and resistance-inhibitors
A ϳԹ researcher has received a five-year, $2.82 million National Institutes of Health grant to make, in essence, stealth bombs that slip past the brain’s defenses to attack an incurable...
October 28, 2015
Sen Gupta adapting platelet technology to treat stroke and heart attack
Anirban Sen Gupta
A ϳԹ researcher has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform clot-forming synthetic platelet technology into devices ...
October 26, 2015
A five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at ϳԹ and Harvard University to build a microfactory that churns out a formula to produce joint cartilage.
The end product could one day benefit many of the tens of millions of p...
October 23, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, and Satish Viswanath, a research assistant, have been awarded U.S. patent 9,159,128.
Their patent is titled “Enhanced multi-protocol analysis via intelligent supe...
October 20, 2015
The next Allen and Constance Ford Distinguished Lecture Series event will feature a panel discussion on the topic of “Forward Thinking: How Biomedical Engineering Can Positively Impact Health and Health Care.” The event will be held Monday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Cente...
October 14, 2015
Illustration of a heel prick using the HemeChip. Illustration by Grace Gongaware, student at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership has announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2015 cycle. This includes six full biomedical engineerin...
October 09, 2015
Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won this year's Linda Arena Endowed Scholarship Award.
Orooji was selected for his project, which was titled "Computer Extracted Texture Fe...
September 24, 2015
ϳԹ boasts some of the world’s brightest young minds. Their influence is not limited to the lab, office or classroom; often, it’s far-reaching—impacting the surrounding community and sometimes even society as a whole.
Four such catalysts—current faculty, staff and studen...
August 28, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.”
The invention relates to a novel algori...
August 18, 2015
Researchers at ϳԹ have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases much smaller than current agents.
“Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or met...