Category: News
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New funding for high-fidelity nerve mapping research
NIH’s SPARC program seeks to research and develop how nerves interact with organs in order to develop treatments and therapies for diseases, including hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, and gastrointestinal disorders.
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BME PhD student Yiying Zhu wins 2016 ESB EDGE Award
The award is provided by the Endowment for the Basic Sciences (EBS).
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Closest look yet at killer T-cell activity could yield new approach to tackling antibiotic resistance
An in-depth look at the work of T-cells, the body’s bacteria killers, could provide a roadmap to effective drug treatments.
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Identifying New Targets in Cancer Metabolism and Treatment
Nagrath takes a systems biology approach, combining a metabolic isotope tracing technique with a computational framework, together known as 13C-based metabolic flux analysis.
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Bionic heart tissue: U-Michigan part of $20M center
Scar tissue left over from heart attacks creates dead zones that don’t beat. Bioengineered patches could fix that.
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Reading cancer’s chemical clues
A nanoparticle-assisted optical imaging technique could one day read the chemical makeup of a tumor.
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$7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain
A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists.
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Mildred F. Denecke Scholarship Fund endowed
The fund will provide need-based support for students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME).
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Bright ideas
Master’s student research explores concept generation in design
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M-HEAL + Mentors = Design Progress
The College’s Multidisciplinary Design Minor enables M-HEAL students to pursue academic credit for their project work.