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...
Designing for health
Interdisciplinary senior design projects of BME and ME undergrads yield new engineering designs for better diagnostics, treatment. Read more
Professor named
BME congratulates Michela Taufer for being elected to the steering committee of the SC Conference Series, a premier international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis that hosts more than 10,000 people each year. Read more
Innovative technology
Emily Day is leading groundbreaking cancer research with UD students. Her team is currently creating second-generation spherical nucleic acids that have decreased brain tumors in animals and will soon be tested on breast cancer in human subjects. Read more
SimuTrach awarded 1st place technology innovation
SimuTrach, a device developed by UD engineering students that provides realistic training for the care of tracheostomy patients, was selected as the first-place technology innovation winner by the 15th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare Scientific...