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UD students work to prevent pharmaceutical waste, theft in hospitals
With its new Summer Founders Program, the University of Delaware’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship is supporting the efforts of eight UD student teams to develop their business venture ideas. On Fridays throughout this summer, the Summer Founders Fridays series will...
Symposium promotes collaboration
In 2011, biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware was a fledgling undergraduate program with a handful of faculty from various departments teaching classes and conducting research. To spur collaborations, the program’s new director, Dawn Elliott, organized...
Research Symposium
BME Research Symposium June 20, 2016 Embassy Suites Newark Biomedical Engineering will hold a research symposium that features the breadth of biomedical research in Delaware and builds new research collaborations. Faculty from across UD and nearby institutions will...
Biomedical Engineering wins Dean's Cup
For the third year in a row, the students of Biomedical Engineering have won the Dean's cup. This award is earned by the department in the College of Engineering with the largest percentage of student donations. Thank you to all who participated in helping raise money...
Postdoctoral Researcher Position
A postdoctoral researcher position in the field of cancer nanomedicine is available in the laboratory of Emily Day, Ph.D. The candidate will develop nanoparticles for treatment of cancer, and test these nanoparticles using in vitro and in vivo models of disease. The...
Art in Science Exhibit
For two weeks in April, the BME Department, along with the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences sponsored UD’s first Art in Science exhibit in the Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory. This event was organized by BME...
Elliott published in Nature Materials
Dawn Elliott’s research shows that tiny non-fibrous regions within fibrous tissue affect behavior as reported in their Jan 4 publication in Nature Materials. Their findings were supported by collaboration with Robert Mauck's lab (University of Pennsylvania), and...
Gleghorn receives NSF grant to study the mechanics of lung development
Jason Gleghorn has received a three-year grant from the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Program of the National Science Foundation to study smooth muscle contractions that occur in the developing mammalian lung. This research will determine the cellular and molecular...
The gift of mobility
A donation from Kids with Confidence will give a local child the gift of mobility in 2016. With the bright and energetic Pediatric Mobility Laboratory as a backdrop, the organization’s board members presented a literal “big check” to the University of Delaware’s Go...
Two BME students named UD Innovation Fellows
BME undergraduate student Jason Bamford, and graduate student Ashutosh Khandha among first 4 students to be named a UD Innovative Fellow. The Innovation Fellows program promotes entrepreneurship for everyone. As part of the program the students had to evaluate the...
Kenneth Barner named IEEE Fellow for work in nonlinear signal processing
Kenneth Barner, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions in the area of nonlinear signal processing. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership...
Day lab paper describes new approach to enhance chemotherapy with nanotechnology
Students in Dr. Emily Day’s research group have published a paper in the International Journal of Nanomedicine describing a new way to sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy resistance in cancer is often attributed to cancer cells’ ability to keep drugs...