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- MCW's Dean Joseph E. Kerschner tours Biomedical Engineering Laboratories in the Translational and Biomedical Research Center (Infoscope News, December 2022)
- Dr. Amit Joshi and graduate student Shayan Shafiee take runner up in Marquette's Picture This photo contest (Marquette Today, December 2022)
- GoBabyGo! Milwaukee presents product improvements at MCW's 2022 Community Engagement poster session (November 2022)
- OREC's Global Mobility project opens New Gait Analysis Lab in collaboration with St. Xavier's in Mumbai, India (The Indian Express, November 2022)
- New certificate by Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering to offer clinical immersion experiences for medical device design professionals (Marquette Today, November 2022)
- OREC hosts the first Build Day for its new collaboration with Penfield Children's Center, building adaptive toys for children with differing disabilities (Spectrum News, Fox 6, Marquette Today, Marquette Wire, November 2022)
- Students Showcase Curiosity and Discovery at the Opus College of Engineering's Undergraduate Research Day (Marquette Today, November 2022)
- Dr. Brian Schmit discusses how his recent R01 grant research will test "shaky" treadmill training to prevent falls among individuals with MS (Multiple Sclerosis News Today, October 2022)
- Dr. Brian Schmit receives $3.34 million R01 grant to study improved mobility for those with multiple sclerosis (Marquette Today, October 2022)
- Dr. Brian Stemper and Dr. Narayan Yoganandan of the Zablocki VA Medical Center Laboratories, along with their collaborators, have received a $1.5 million dollar award from the United States Air Force: Air Force Research Laboratory Wright Research Site for the project, "Determination of the Etiology of Neck and Back Pain in High Performance Aircrew." (September 2022)
- Dr. Frank Pintar of the Wisconsin Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) Center has received a $1.5 million dollar award from the Department of Transporation: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the project, "CIREN Pedestrian and Motor Vehicle Occupant Enrollment," in collaboration with Dr. John Humm from the Medical College of Wisconsin. (September 2022)
- Dr. Amit Joshi of the Nanomedicine & Image-Guided Interventions Laboratory (NIGIL), and his collaborators, have received a 5-year, $1,784,250 award from the National Institutes of Health for the project, "Leveraging genetic mapping for personalized targeting of breast cancer microenvironment." Additionally, Dr. Joshi has received a shared equipment grant for the purchase of an IVIS Spectrum Imager for the Medical College of Wisconsin, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. (September 2022)
- Dr. Brian Schmit of the Integrative Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (INERL), and his collaborators, have received a multi-million dollar, 5-year award from the National Institutes of Health for the project, “High-Intensity, dynamic-stability gait training in people with multiple sclerosis." (September 2022)
- Dr. Robert Scheidt seeks to enhance wearable robotic technologies that facilitate motor functions after neuromotor injury (Marquette Today, September 2022)
- BME Faculty Dr. Jay Goldberg discusses his experience as a Jewish faculty working in a Jesuit institution (Conversations on Higher Jesuit Education, September 2022)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft and collaborator Dr. Aoy Tomita-Mitchell discuss the 3D printing of biomaterials for pediatric congenital heart disease (CTSI Discovery Radio, Episode 100: Emerging Technologies and the Art of Science, August 2022)
- Dr. Brian Schmit of the Integrative Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (INERL) and his collaborators received a 2-year award from Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment for the project, “Virtual reality training paradigm to rehabilitate hand dexterity in degenerative cervical myelopathy.” (August 2022)
- Dr. Bing Yu of the Biophotonics Laboratory received a one-year, $50,000 award, from the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center for a Pre-Clinical Award Pilot grant entitled, “Development of a deep-learning algorithm to enable deep-UV microscopy for intraoperative assessment of breast tumor margins.” (August 2022)
- Dr. Adam Greenberg, principal investigator of the SNAP Lab, and his collaborator have received a 2-year award from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Institute for the project titled, "Understanding the Real World Effects of Breast Cancer and its Treatment of Cognitive Function: A Longitudinal, Nationally Representative Study." (August 2022)
- Dr. Robert Scheidt of the NeuroMotor Control Laboratory, and his collaborator have received a two-year, $427,772 grant from the National Institutes of Health, Institute of Child Health and Human Development, for the project, "Addressing arm non-use by encouraging idle-time activity during early recovery from stroke." (August 2022)
- Dr. Robert Cooper, Principal Investigator of the Ocular and Computer Vision Laboratory, Dr. Adam Greenberg, Principal Investigator of the SNAP Lab, and Dr. Joseph Carroll, Director of the Advanced Ocular Imaging Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin, have received a 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health—National Eye Institute for the project title, "Retinal Contributions to Vision Loss in Albinism.” (August 2022)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft elected Chair of TERMIS TWIG, a group dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in cardiovascular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (August 2022)
- GoBabyGo! Milwaukee welcomes colleagues from Mexico to grow the program internationally (Marquette Today, July 2022)
- Dr. Ranjan Dash, in collaboration with Dr. Dexuan Xie, has received a 600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project titled, "Advanced Ion Channel Modeling and Computational Tool with Application to Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel and Mitochondrial Model Development." (July 2022)
- Dr. Bo Wang, Principal Investigator of the Tissue Regenerative Engineering Lab, has received a two-year, $200,000 award sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment for her project titled, "Development of a Compliant and Biomimetic Small Vascular Graft with Human Amnion Membrane." (July 2022)
- Advancing Surgery Across the Globe (MCW Knowledge, June 2022)
- OREC's Biomaterials & Histology Laboratory's manuscript discussing host inflammatory response to debris from SHILLA Growth Guidance System published in European Spine Journal (June 2022)
- Dr. Bing Yu and his breast tumor margin imaging team have been awarded pre-clinical pilot award from the Cancer Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin for the project "Development of a deep-learning algorithm to enable deep-UV microscopy for intraoperative assessment of breast tumor margins." (June 2022)
- Dr. Azarnoosh takes 2nd place in MCW's Best Scientific Image award for Fluid-Structure Interaction imaging of Coarctation of the Aorta (June 2022)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft awarded 2-year, R21 grant from the NIH-NHLBI for the project, "Rapidly healing flow diverters using magnetic cell targeting for intracranial aneurysm treatment." (June 2022)
- Feature Story: Targeted Therapy for Middle Ear Infections (May 2022)
- Marquette University Class of 2022 received their diplomas in commencement ceremonies held this year at Summerfest's American Family Insurance Amphitheater (Marquette Today, May 2022)
- Cardiovascular Regenerative Engineering Laboratory research featured by Project Wonder (May 2022)
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Dr. Brandon Tefft and MCW Engineering Core awarded Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health (May 2022)
- Supremes Program Celebrates another year of student research at Supremes Symposium 2022 (May 2022)
- Dr. Taly Gilat-Schmidt of the Medical Imaging Systems Laboratory has received a $102,000 award from a partnership with GE Healthcare for the project, "Photon-counting CT Grayscale Image Generation." (April 2022)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft selected as guest editor of special issue of Bioengineering discussing cell-ECM interactions for tissue engineering and regeneration (April 2022)
- Go Baby Go! MKE Celebrates 200th Car Donation (Marquette Today, April 2022)
- BME Students Celebrated by Marquette with Contemplatives in Action Student Leadership Awards (April 2022)
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Dr. Brandon Tefft of the Cardiovascular Regenerative Engineering Laboratory has been awarded a 3-year Career Development Award from the American Heart Association for his research entitled, "Bioengineered heart tissue for studying and treating congenital heart disease." (April 2022)
- Women's History Month spotlight on Marquette University Opus College of Engineering's first ever female dean (WDJT Milwaukee, March 2022)
- Dr. Jordan Williams of the Neural Engineering, Interfacing, Modulation and Optimization Laboratory is a co-investigator on a 2-year US Department of Veterans Affairs project, “Spreading Depolarizations and Perfusion in Non-traumatic Spinal Cord Injury,” with Dr. Matthew Budde at the Medical College of Wisconsin. (March 2022) Learn more about NEIMO Lab Research
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Dr. Joseph Carroll and the Eye Institute Research provide New Clues to Family Mystery (February 2022)
- OCOE Cake Wars featured on Milwaukee TMJ4 News (February 2022)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft and Co-PIs Chen and Guerts receive 1.5m grant from the National Institutes of Health for project entitled, "Transcriptomics of Adherent endothelial cells for improved endothelialization of small-diameter vascular grafts." (February 2022)
- Dr. Adam Greenberg and collaborators receive $50,000 funding for new inquiry into Early Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's (February 2022)
- CaRE Lab Members Join Cullen Club Run for Heart Health Research (February 2022)
- Dr. Said Audi and collaborators Clough and Jacobs of the Computational Lung Physiology Laboratory receive funding from Marquette University for project titled, "Evaluation of a Novel Therapeutic for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)." (January 2022) Learn more about CLPL Research
- Dr. Kristina Ropella named to board of Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (January 2022)
- Go Baby Go! Milwaukee named 'Notable Hero in Healthcare' by Milwaukee BizTimes (December 2021)
- Dr. Scott Beardsley and Dr. Taly Gilat-Schmidt honored for 15 years of teaching excellence at Marquette University (November 2021) View more MU faculty and staff milestones.
- Feature Story: Preparing Students for Successful Careers
- OREC's Biomaterials & Histology Lab abstracts accepted for presentation at Orthopaedic Research Society's 2022 Annual Meeting (November 2021)
- Go Baby Go! Milwaukee grows, announces new affiliation with OCOE's Biomedical Engineering Society (November 2021)
- OREC's New Course in Global Mobility Offers Students the Opportunity to Study Abroad (November 2021)
- CaRE Lab Presents at 2021 BMES Annual Meeting (October 2021)
- Dr. Jordan Williams has been awarded a 1-year $125,000 NIH K12 grant from the Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Development Program for the project titled, “Addressing the clinical feasibility of peripheral optogenetic strategies for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.” (October 2021)
- BME Faculty recognized by MCW as Outstanding Graduate School Educators for AY '20–'21 (October 2021)
- BME interns present at Medical Students Summer Research Virtual Poster Session 2021 (October 2021, MCW Network Access Required)
- Drs. Michael McCrea and Brian Stemper collaborate with the CARE Consortium to Examine Concussion Incidence in College Football (September 2021)
- The Biomaterials & Histology Laboratory (BIMA) co-authors article for Science Advances, a peer-reviewed, general science publication with an impact factor of 14 in 2020. Learn more (September 2021)
- Drs. Gerald Harris and Joycie Abierta discuss Global Mobility program in Elsevier's webinar series, Global Perspectives on Medicine, Rehabilitation and Robotics (September 2021)
- Dr. Brian Schmit, in collaboration with Drs. Xiaoyan Li and Paul Barkhaus, has received a 2-year $431,700 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project “High-density surface EMG based CMAP scan for motor unit number estimation.” (September 2021)
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Dr. Bob Scheidt, along with Dr. Scott Beardsley, Dr. Leigh Ann Mrotek, and Dr. Kristy Nielson, has received a 2-year $420,750 award from the National Institutes of Health for the project titled, “Neural mechanisms of error correction during manual interception of moving targets.” (September 2021)
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Dr. Rob Cooper received a 1-year award in the amount of $39,226 for a collaborative project with Translational Imaging Innovations, Inc. titled, “Validating Automated Photoreceptor Analytics Software For Degenerative Eye Disease Research and Biopharma Clinical Trials.” The work is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. (September 2021)
- Spectrum News features MU-MCW BME Engineers and OREC in collaboration with Children’s Wisconsin: Fitting Motorized Cars for Kids with Special Needs (June 2021)
- Advancements in Imaging: Dr. Taly Gilat-Schmidt discusses her recent work in reducing radiation exposure to pediatric cancer patients by improving radiation dose tracking (May 2021)
- Dr. Robert Cooper contributes to Journal of Biomedical Optics top-cited publication (May 2021)
- Dr. Taly Gilat-Schmidt honored at 2021 Pere Marquette Award Ceremony (May 2021)
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From Concept to Cover: A 10-year milestone on Dr. Bing Yu's road to innovation (March 2021)
- Dr. Frank Pintar and staff of ZVAMC Vehicle Crashworthiness Lab discuss NHTSA project to enhance vehicle occupant safety with Milwaukee VA Medical Center (March 2021)
- Dr. Frank Pintar represents MU-MCW BME and ZVAMC Crash Lab in discussion with Milwaukee's NPR regarding vehicle occupant safety (March 2021)
- BME graduate Dr. Ben McHenry featured as Marquette Difference Maker for work with Milwaukee's Go Baby Go program, adapting vehicles for children with disabilities (March 2021)
- Dr. Bing Yu and collaborators Dr. Joseph Kerschner and Dr. Wenzhou Hong receive 2-year, $397,000 NIH R21 award for the project titled, "Optical confirmation and monitoring of endotracheal tube position in pediatric patients" (March 2021)
- Dr. Ranjan Dash appointed an Associate Editor of Computational Physiology and Medicine for Frontiers in Physiology (March 2021)
- Dr. Adam Greenberg discusses SNAP Lab research with Milwaukee PBS on Timbre, an MATC Production Exploring Music, Acoustics and Sound (February 2021)
- Allison Scarbrough wins MU Graduate Teaching Excellence Award: Non-Instructor of Record for Lab-based Sections (February 2021)
- Allison Scarbrough is awarded MU's Seeds of Faith Fellowship (February 2021)
- BME Graduate Student Joey Avila takes second place in MU's 3 Minute Thesis Competition (February 2021)
- Dr. Brandon Tefft Elected to a three-year term on the Biomedical Engineering Society Ethics Subcommittee beginning in January, 2021 (January 2021)
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