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Aaron Morris Selected as a TED Fellow University of Michigan Precision Health Scholar and Biomedical Engineering Postdoc to present at TED2020
January 23, 2020
Ann Arbor, MI JANUARY 23, 2020—Aaron Morris, MS, PhD—a 2018 recipient of a Precision Health Scholars Award and a research fellow in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan—has been selected as a TED Fellow. Chosen for his work on tissue-engineered diagnostic sites, Morris joins a class of 20 change-makers from around the world to […]
Read more »How an AI solution can design new tuberculosis drug regimens A new method could replace trial and error drug development
November 21, 2019
With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool from the University of Michigan can predict how current drugs—including unlikely candidates—can be combined in new ways to create more effective treatments. “This could replace our traditional trial-and-error system for drug development that is comparatively slow and expensive,” said Sriram Chandrasekaran, a U-M […]
Read more »Debating Bioethics
November 4, 2019
Bioengineers tend talk a lot about how new technologies work. BME Lecturer Barry Belmont also wants to discuss their implications, and he isn’t the only one. “It’s one thing to learn the mechanics of gene therapy, for example, like how CRISPR works; it’s another to talk about some of the potential uses and the ethics […]
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