Effect of zero gravity on microscopic worm genes
Chandran Sabanayagam is studying the effect of zero gravity on the genes of the common ground worm, C. Elegans, work that could produce new insights into the effect of long periods in space on humans. Read more. And can also read in VOA news.
BME undergrads present at Spin In Showcase
At DBI's Spin in Showcase, BME undergrad Gabriel Szczepanek (on right) presented with his team their innovation mTrigger. This device plugs into an iPhone's headphone port and then attaches to sensor pads on a patient’s skin. As the patient goes through various...
Summer research opportunity
The Delaware Rehabilitation Institute (DRI) at the University of Delaware is seeking four highly qualified undergraduate students for 10-week paid internships in summer 2015 in the areas of biomechanics and movement sciences. Read more
BME grad students receive IGERT fellowships
BME grad students Omar Banda and Andrea Lee have been selected as 2015 IGERT fellows. Banda is doing his PhD in John Slater's lab studying biofunctional materials and cellular engineering. Lee is doing her PhD in Dawn Elliott's lab investigating the mechanics of...
Mining for biomedical information
Hagit Shatkay and Chandra Kambhamettu in computer and information sciences have received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to apply to biomedical research the principle of “computational glancing." Read more
Google glass explorer
Jingyi Yu, in collaboration with Steven Stanhope, explores the use of computer vision to enable better health care. Read more
Engineering video contest
UD's College of Engineering invites students to participate in a National Academy of Engineering video contest that focuses on the century’s challenges and solutions. Read more
Detecting dangerous chemicals
Mark Mirotznik's lab is working with the Army Research Office to engineer nanoplasmonic surfaces — materials structured at the atomic scale to interact with light in unusual and specific ways. Read more
BME welcomes three new faculty
Jason Gleghorn earned his doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from Cornell University. During his postdoctoral work at Cornell, he developed microfluidic systems to isolate rare circulating tumor cells from patient blood samples and to assay them for...
Ogunnaike named 2014 NAI fellow
Dean Ogunnaike named 2014 fellow of National Academy of Inventors, a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible...