Category: News
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BME Appoints a Student Career Planning and Alumni Engagement Coordinator
Please watch for events in her BME Career Pathways Bulletins, event emails, and BME Community Connections.
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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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U-M BME Awards $1.2M in Funding to 10 Multidisciplinary Teams via the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
Outcomes of previous Coulter funding and support include the formation of 22 start-up companies and over $544 million raised in angel or venture capital from 2006 through 2023.
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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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Caroline Dugopolski Named 2024 BME Alumni Merit Award Recipient
Dugopolski was honored with other College of Engineering department recipients during alumni awards activities on Homecoming Weekend.
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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.
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Research Team Receives $1.5M NSF Grant to Study Faculty Mental Health and Well-Being
This research will be a national study focusing on the prevalence and severity of mental health problems among faculty working in STEM disciplines.