Pulling Together: Harnessing Intercellular Mechanical Forces to Build Capillaries
December 6, 2023
Can cells use mechanical forces as a means to communicate with each other and assemble into capillaries useful for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine? This is a question that Brendon Baker, Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering, and members of his lab are investigating, as profiled in a paper published recently in Advanced […]
Read more Ā»BME DEI Book Club Highlights āWhistling Vivaldiā for Its Opening Session
December 5, 2023
The BME DEI Book Club held its inaugural meeting on Friday, December 1. About 30 attendees shared lunch and a discussion focused on āWhistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,ā by Claude Steele. This book, which highlights issues of stereotypes and identity, was the first of three publications the book club […]
Read more Ā»U-M BME Students Learn About Genetics at NASEC Event
December 4, 2023
Three U-M BME studentsāNatalie Hanby, Nikita Lebedz, and George Rabadiāattended the 12th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC), from November 5-7, in Annapolis, Maryland. This year’s event, titled āGenetics: Understanding and Addressing Today’s Challenges,ā was organized around the themes of genetic technologies, use of genetic data, and genetics in public health. The conference offered […]
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
"Exploring heterogeneous macrophage cell-cell interactions: from dishes to tumors," with Kathryn Miller-Jensen, PhD
December 7, 2023 - 4:30 pm
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Making a Difference
Discover the BME Design Space
The BME Commons, teaching, learning, teamwork, collaboration and ideation space is a gathering place for the BME community. Several key features of the BME Commons include: The goals of the space are to foster teamwork and community, integrate professional practice into BME curriculum, and promote engineering / industry / medicine interactions. āWeāre excited to have […]
Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Happening Now
From an engineered scaffold to aid in the early detection of breast cancer metastasis, to a controlled form of ultrasound to non-invasively destroy bad tissue in the body, to a determined mission to enable neural control of prosthetics, Michigan Biomedical Engineering is developing incredible solutions to the worlds most pressing biological and medical challenges.
Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
The U-M Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program is a funding and commercialization program that accelerates development of medical product concepts invented at UM to the point of licensing to established companies or to venture/angel-backed startups. https://bme.umich.edu/research/coulter/