Category: News
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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.
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Undergraduate Innovation in High-Throughput Screening Earns SLAS Poster Award
The award highlights the exceptional caliber of research and presentation skills exhibited by BME undergraduate student Christian Reinhardt, whose work drew considerable interest from conference attendees.
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Congratulations to BME’s 2025-2026 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Recipients
BME is proud of our graduate students for receiving top Rackham Award recognition. The following BME Ph.D. students received Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships:
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NIH-Funded U-M BME Team Develops Adaptive Vision Assistant to Deliver Personalized Navigation Cues
This wearable device is engineered to deliver personalized navigation cues for visually impaired users, offering information through vibration, sound, or other customizable formats.
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Connie Wu receives NSF CAREER award to advance ultrasensitive tools for profiling low-abundance proteins
Dr. Wu’s CAREER research aims to accelerate biomarker discovery, strengthen the future biotechnology workforce, and improve readiness for future public health challenges.
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AI-powered “smart patient retrieval” could transform tumor board decision-making
AI figure developed by Katelyn Lu, University of Michigan
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NSF CAREER Award supports U-M BME’s Maria Coronel in developing smart biomaterials to monitor wounds in real time
Chronic wounds are a major clinical challenge affecting many patient populations, yet the underlying biology often remains unclear.