Category: Campus and Community
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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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BME Graduate Student Council Strengthens Community through Academic, Wellness, and Social Programming
The BME Graduate Student Council’s goal is helping students feel supported throughout the demands of graduate training
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M-HEAL Returns to Ghana to Strengthen Partnerships and Advance Neonatal Care Prototypes
U-M student organization Michigan Health Engineered For All Lives (M-HEAL) has a team called The Initiative, which is charting its next phase of work in Ghana, focused on newborn health, sustainable collaboration, and locally informed design.
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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.
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BME’s Third AMPED Cohort Prepares to Graduate
This class consisted of 31 engineers who are pursuing careers in the medical device industry.
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Carlos Aguilar, Xudong Fan Named to AIMBE College of Fellows
Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top two percent of engineers in these fields.
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MedLaunch: Building assistive technology—and a community—one partner at a time
MedLaunch operates as a collection of project teams, each assigned a community partner in the greater Ann Arbor region and guided by a yearlong design process grounded in frequent end-user feedback.