Modeling Metastasis
Slater lab awarded NIH funds to develop new tissue-engineered device to mimic organ-specific breast cancer metastasis patterns Metastasis, which is the development of a malignant growth somewhere in the body other than the primary tumor site, is responsible for 90...
Elucidating lung development
Gleghorn awarded NIH funding to identify molecular mechanisms underlying lung development and congenital diaphragmatic hernia The University of Delaware’s Jason Gleghorn has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate pressure...
Improving Cancer Detection
Undergrad biomedical engineering student is lead author on PLOS ONE paper Accurate detection of antigens — receptors that are overexpressed on diseased cells relative to healthy cells — is imperative for clinicians to diagnose disease, assess treatment success and...
BME Grad Students Shine at Biomechanics Research Symposium!
14th annual event features keynote, ongoing research in biomechanics More than 100 people turned out for the 14th annual Biomechanics Research Symposium at the University of Delaware STAR Campus on Friday, May 12. The event was hosted by the Center for Biomechanical...
Engineering’s Dawn Elliott named Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor
Dawn Elliott, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been named Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering. “Under Dawn’s leadership, biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware has grown from...
Biomedical Engineering Graduate student won prestigious Whitaker Fellowship
Axel Moore, a graduate student in biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has won a prestigious Whitaker Fellowship to study abroad for a year. The program sends young biomedical engineers anywhere outside the U.S. or Canada for academic or scientific...
Frizzling cancer – UD researchers demonstrate potential of tiny new tool in fighting breast cancer
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...
BME Students Winning Awards and Making the News
Biomedical Engineering graduate student Aditya Jagarapu won one of four University Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Awards administered by the Faculty Senate. Read more... Erica Comber, Senior BME undergraduate won the Brad and Jennifer Bono Award for...
BME undergraduates and alumni take home top prizes in entrepreneurship competition
Winners of the Hen Hatch competition were announced during its final round on Tuesday at the World Café Live at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware. Hen Hatch, which is hosted by the Horn Program in Entrepreneurship, is the University of Delaware’s premier start up...
BME Undergraduates and Alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Twelve UD students, alumni win prestigious research support A dozen University of Delaware students (undergraduate and graduate) and alumni have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships as the prestigious competition marks its 65th year. Fourteen...