Shining a Light on Gene Regulation
Cancer treatments—from radiation to surgery to chemotherapy—are designed to remove or kill cancerous cells, but healthy cells often become collateral damage in the process. What if you could use lasers to pinpoint the treatment area and deliver medicine to cancer cells only?
Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Rachel Riley
Rachel Riley Graduate Student Rachel Riley will be defending her dissertation on Monday, June 18th at 10:00 am in ISE Lab Room 322. TITLE: Nanoshell Platforms for Targeted Gene Regulation and Light-Triggered Cancer Therapy When: 10:00 am Monday, June 18, 2018...
Engineering’s Emily Day Earns NSF Career Award
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...
Gleghorn & Ogunnaike team study blood vessel formation
FIVE WIN SUPPORT FROM UD RESEARCH FOUNDATION Awards provide traction for promising research Five University of Delaware professors have won support for promising early-phase research projects in widely diverse areas. The new awards from the University of Delaware...
Killian & Slater Awarded Bioscience Grants
DELAWARE BIOSCIENCE CAT GRANTS 12 collaborative grants funded in 2017 The Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) awarded Applied Research Collaborations or Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept grants to four College of Engineering faculty...
Faculty and Students Take Home Honors
UD biomedical engineers earn national recognition John Slater, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, won a Rising Star award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) group...
Discovering How Cells Divide
UD professor part of NIH grant to understand mechanisms controlling cell division Abhyudai Singh, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, and mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, is part of a new...
Art in Science
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART IN SCIENCE Art in Science competition and exhibit to highlight beauty of science and engineering Students, faculty and staff of the University of Delaware are invited to submit original, research-related artwork for the 2018 Art in Science...
Recent Graduate makes international news
BME Alumni Marjelle Scheffers is part of a team of engineers who have successfully built a wheelchair from bamboo. Read about her success here.
Amanda Studnicki puts Delaware First on the court and in the world
Tennis players know that net play takes nerve, speed, confidence and commitment. “I love to play the net,” says Amanda Studnicki—in life, it seems, as well as on the court. Co-captain of the UD women’s tennis team, Studnicki maintains a 3.98 average in a challenging...