Stories from BME | In the News | Grants & Awards | Other News

Stories from BME

 

Goldberg Wins TAA New Textbook Award

Mar 2024: Biomedical Engineering Design, a textbook co-authored by Dr. Jay Goldberg, professor of practice in biomedical engineering, is one of 25 texts to earn a TAA Most Promising … Continue Reading 

 

Future of the Field

Sep 2023: A Q&A with Mike Ahmad, director of clinical engineering in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. In Spring 2023, the Opus College of Engineering welcomed … Continue Reading 

 

Marquette's VisLab Cave Reopens

March 2023: The Marquette Visualization Laboratory is a unique space that heightens the educational and research outcomes for a vast array of projects. Engineers … Continue Reading 

 

In the News

• Celebrating more than a major: Photos from Engineers Week 2024 (Marquette Today, February 2024)
•  Emeriti Faculty, Dr. Jack Winters, among top 2% of world’s most-cited scientists (Marquette Today, January 2024)
• Dr. Schmit, Dr. Hyngstrom and collaborators receive $3.2 million NIH R01 award to study muscle fatigue in stroke survivors (Marquette Today, November 2023)
• Go Baby Go!: OREC Engineers work to adapt motorized cars for children with special needs (Fox6 Milwaukee, November 2023)
• Adaptive Toy Build:  OREC Engineers work with Penfield Children's Center and a host of volunteers to adapt toys for use by children with different abilities  (Marquette Today, NBC 4, TMJ4, FOX6, 620WTMJ, WISN 12, AMT, November 2023)
• Dr. Kristina Ropella, Opus Dean of Engineering and Primary Faculty in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, named Groundbreaker honoree for Betty Awards (Marquette Today, November 2023) 

Grants & Awards 

• Tefft, Brandon J. (Principal Investigator); "CAREER: Origami-inspired design for a tissue engineered heart valve." A CAREER Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation (July 2024–June 2029).
• Audi, Said H (MU Principal); Clough, Anne (MU Co-I); "Molecular Imaging of the Lungs for Predicting Survival in Subjects Early Following Exposure to Radiation." A subaward from Columbia University for an ongoing project sponsored by NIH titled, "Center for High-Throughput Minimally-Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry" (August 2023–July 2024).
• Dash, Ranjan K. (Principal Investigator); Terhune, Scott (Co-Principal Investigator); Zamora, Anthony (Co-Principal Investigator). "Data-Driven Computational Modeling of Cellular Response in CART Therapy." Sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (January 2024–December 2024).
• Greenberg, Adam (Principal Investigator); Uyar, D. (Co-Investigator); “Assessing Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction in the Elderly.” Sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (January 2024–December 2024).
• Wang, Bo (Principal Investigator); Chen, Y. (Co-Investigator); Rossie, P. (Co-Investigator);  "Biofabrication of Small Vascular Graft with Human Amniotic Membrane." Sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (January 2024–December 2024). 

Other News

• BME Members Present at the 2024 American Physiology Summit (April 2024)
• Joint Department faculty receive seed grants from AHW for promising new research (March 2024)
• Alli Scarbrough—PhD Student from Biophotonics Lab—has paper featured on SPIE and EurekaAlert! websites (February 2024)
• ZVAMC Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery Labs Announce Change in Leadership (February 2024)
• Dr. Shashanka Rao wins poster award at MCW's CVC Research Retreat (December 2023)
• Dr. Guilherme Garcia's research featured on the FDA's Spotlight on CDER Science (November 2023)
• The Joint Department celebrates Meg Sullivan's 15 years of service (November 2023)
• The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering attends the 2023 BMES Annual Meeting (November 2023)
• Dr. Adam Greenberg to give IEEE Keynote Address on Neuroimaging (November 2023)

 

Not seeing what you're looking for?  Find archived BME News—including feature stories, grants, awards and appointments—in the BME News Archive. 

 Visit BME News Archive.