Developing nanoscale materials to outsmart cancerous tumors Emily Day, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to engineer membrane-wrapped nanoparticles for targeted...
Antibodies have emerged as invaluable tools for the study and treatment of cancer because they can manipulate, with high specificity, the signaling pathways that drive cancer progression. “However, although they’re effective, antibodies are extremely expensive and...
Jill Higginson and her team have received a 5-year educational grant from NIH to incorporate practical clinical design experience into UD’s Biomedical Engineering curriculum. The plan is to expand the BME interdisciplinary senior design program to include...
April Kloxin thinks science rocks, so her research group is reaching out to the public through an interactive kiosk called Mimicking Nature at the Delaware Museum of Natural History, as well as through a radio show called Science Rocks! on the University’s student-run...
Jason Gleghorn has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a network of 115 research-oriented schools around the nation, to study lung development. Read more.
Dawn Elliott was awarded the Van C. Mow Medal by ASME for significantly advancing the field of biomedical engineering through her contributions in musculoskeletal tissue structure-function research, her student mentorship with a focus on mentoring women, and her...
