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Investing in the Future
The University of Delaware Department of Biomedical Engineering welcomes two new faculty during the 2018-2019 academic year. Meet the scholars who are helping our department to grow.
Young Innovators
University of Delaware assistant professors Emily Day and Jason Gleghorn have been named Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering for 2018.
UD Engineering’s Next Era
Levi T. Thompson shares vision as new dean of College of Engineering Levi T. Thompson joined the University of Delaware in early October as dean of the College of Engineering. It’s a homecoming for Thompson, who received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering...
New insights into the adolescent brain
The inner workings of the teenage brain are now slightly less mysterious, thanks to a research team led by University of Delaware engineers.
Best in Class
Sarah Rooney is this year’s winner of the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
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...
New award supports BME junior faculty
Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, is the first recipient of the new Dr. Bernard Canavan Biomedical Engineering Early Career Faculty Research Award.
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...
UD Biomedical Engineer Lands NSF CAREER Award
John Slater to build an in vitro model of microstroke John Slater, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to develop a tissue-engineered model of ischemic...
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...