Category: Research
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BME Graduate Students Receive Trainee Professional Development Award from Society for Neuroscience
This award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and post baccalaureate and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.
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Harnessing Gut Bacteria to Combat Cancer: Innovations in Tumor-Targeted Immunotherapy
A team of researchers has examined a promising new approach, which uses engineered non-pathogenic bacteria to enhance the body’s immune response against tumors.
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Zhen Xu Receives IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award
This is the highest honor for mid-career researchers in ultrasonics internationally.
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Carlos Aguilar, Maria Coronel Honored in Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists
This publication is a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.
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Ph.D. Student Andrea Jacobson Receives 2024 Derek Tat Memorial Award
This honor is named in memory of Derek Tat, a student of Cindy Chestek, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics & Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
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Karin Jensen Receives NSF Grant to Study Engineering Faculty Gender Equity
The broader impact of this project will be to enhance knowledge regarding ways to increase the number of women in tenure-track engineering faculty and leadership positions.
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U-M BME’s Deepak Nagrath is the Metabolic Transcriptome Leader for the Multi-Institutional Center for Transcriptional Medicine
The goal is to bring together this interdisciplinary team of experts to foster collaborations and accelerate the development of exciting findings into clinical populations.
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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.”