Category: Faculty
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RSVP Now for Engineering in Cardiovascular Medicine–a BME Summer Workshop @ Michigan
The two-day event will be geared towards delivering high quality presentations, poster presentations, workshop-wide activities for engagement and networking, as well as focused sessions on building bridges between clinical and engineering trainees.
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2026 BME Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture Highlights Research and Community Across Campus
This year’s event featured a mix of faculty and student research talks, poster presentations, networking opportunities, and recognition of outstanding student achievement.
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U‑M Biomedical Engineering Celebrates 30 Years as a Department, Building on a Foundation that Began in 1962
While BME’s history as an official academic department spans 30 years, Michigan’s biomedical engineering influence can be traced far earlier to the 1960s—beginning with a bold experiment in graduate education.
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Register Today for May 13’s BME Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture
This event is intended to build the BME community across campus and honor the legacy of the first graduate chair of the Biomedical Engineering program.
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BME 419/519 Art Fair Spotlights the Beauty and Creativity of Human Physiology
Held on the final day of class, the event encouraged students to choose any physiological system covered during the term and interpret it through an original art piece made using any medium.
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Paul Jensen Lab’s ‘Robot Scientist’ Earns U-M Empowering Research with AI Award
The award was presented during the MIDAS AI in Research Symposium, highlighting researchers across disciplines—from biological sciences to music—who are integrating AI into their work.
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Aaron Morris Receives NIH MIRA Award to Advance Immune-engineering Approaches for Chronic Wounds
The award will support Dr. Morris’s research program aimed at understanding, and ultimately improving, why certain wounds fail to heal.
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U-M BME Researchers Receive Frankel Innovation Initiative Award to Examine Next Generation Real-Time Directional Mapping for Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy
With support from the Frankel Initiative, Enrico Opri and his collaborators are proposing a methodology that leverages a new biomarker, called “DBS local field potentials—evoked by stimulation—that tells us whether we are at the optimal brain location,” Dr. Opri said.
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Aaron Morris Receives NSF CAREER Award to Engineer Lymphoid Microenvironments to Understand T cell Reprogramming
This research focuses on T cells, including regulatory T cells (Tregs)—a specialized population that can dampen harmful inflammation. Photo credit: Claire Agosti, SayoStudio.
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GaitWay wins first place at U-M CFE’s MTank, spotlighting a new approach to freezing of gait in Parkinson’s
MTank is a project similar to the reality TV show Shark Tank, where startups come to pitch their ideas, receive live feedback and guidance from judges, and compete for capital from Venture Capitalists.