Category: Faculty
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Ph.D. Student Andrea Jacobson Receives 2024 Derek Tat Memorial Award
This honor is named in memory of Derek Tat, a student of Cindy Chestek, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics & Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
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BME Students Bring People-First Engineering to Life
The 450 Design Course is organized around a capstone team project.
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Karin Jensen Receives NSF Grant to Study Engineering Faculty Gender Equity
The broader impact of this project will be to enhance knowledge regarding ways to increase the number of women in tenure-track engineering faculty and leadership positions.
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U-M BME’s Deepak Nagrath is the Metabolic Transcriptome Leader for the Multi-Institutional Center for Transcriptional Medicine
The goal is to bring together this interdisciplinary team of experts to foster collaborations and accelerate the development of exciting findings into clinical populations.
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Pioneering Vision: U-M BME Researchers Focus on Retinal Prosthesis Technology
With an ultimate goal of restoring sight, their research is a collaboration that builds on Dr. Weiland’s experience with retinal prosthesis and Dr. Chestek’s work with carbon fiber neural electrodes, to create a sophisticated electronic device designed to stimulate the retina and restore usable vision for people whose photoreceptors have degenerated.
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Jiahe Li to Receive 2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award
The Young Innovators award is issued by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE), a journal focused on “research that studies how cellular behavior arises from molecular-level interactions to tackle the challenge of improving human health.”
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U-M BME Announces Fall Slate of BME 500 Seminar Speakers
U-M BME looks forward to welcoming our guest presenters to Ann Arbor.
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U-M researchers awarded $500K grant to develop a Cystic Fibrosis Research Center at the University of Michigan
The grant will fund the development of a CFF Research Development Program (RDP) at the University of Michigan. In collaboration with a cohort of CF research and clinical colleagues, this initial funding will enable the development of the research infrastructure needed to garner additional extramural support for this program in 2026.
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Fuel Up for the First Day!
BME welcomes students to the start of the new academic year!
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Tick-borne red meat allergy prevented in mice through new nanoparticle treatment
Lonnie Shea, the Steven A. Goldstein Collegiate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, along with other researchers at U-M and the University of Virginia, is studying how nanoparticles containing small amounts of allergen can prevent allergic reactions to food in mice.