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Robot Rehab
Biomed engineering professor receives American Heart Association grant to study robot-aided stroke rehabilitation. About every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Many stroke survivors have lingering brain damage that makes motor tasks, such as...
UD Biomedical Engineering Chair to lead national organization
As president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Dawn Elliott will focus on education. Dawn Elliott, chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). Founded in...
Alumni entrepreneur in the news!
36 Intriguing Delawareans • Amira Idris Could a wearable vibrating device ease the phantom pain felt by people who have lost a limb? Amira Idris, a native of Nigeria who came to the University of Delaware thanks to an academic and track scholarship. is applying her UD...
UD BME students win many awards at national biomechanics conference
Awards for undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni of UD BME department University of Delaware engineering students Sarah Peden, Marjelle Scheffers, Dylan Wergelis-Isaacson and Desik Somasundaram placed third in the Undergraduate Design Competition at the Summer...
UD teams get millions in NSF funding
A nano-lab for observing viruses and cells Gleghorn Lab is part of a team that has been awarded $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to probe how viruses interact with microbes. They will be developing new microfluidics technology to examine how a...
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...