Tag: Awards
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U-M BME Student Team Wins $15,000 Prize for Accessible Eye-Drop Applicator
The team received the Technologies to Foster Healthy Aging Prize, funded by the National Institute on Aging, through the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams Challenge, commonly known as the DEBUT Challenge.
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U-M BME Team Wins $15,000 National Prize for Device Designed to Improve Endometrial Cancer Treatment
Endura’s Chiral Uteri could help physicians customize brachytherapy treatment while reducing procedure complexity and the risk of uterine injury.
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Zhen Xu Receives Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
This award recognizes transformative work enabled by federal funding, which was crucial to advancing the tumor-destroying soundwaves until they were ready for the clinic.
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Nathan French Receives 2026 Derek Tat Memorial Award
The U-M BME Ph.D. student was recognized for academic excellence, innovative cardiovascular research and an exceptional commitment to mentoring others.
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Jan Stegemann Receives ASEE’s Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award
The award is the highest conferred by the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and recognizes significant contributions to biomedical engineering education.
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BME Faculty, Research Staff Honored with 2026 EBS Awards
EBS is a cooperative program for the nine U-M Medical School basic science departments, which funds research initiatives, supports faculty recruitment, and issues annual awards such as the EBS Teaching and Research Staff Awards.
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Paul Jensen Lab’s ‘Robot Scientist’ Earns U-M Empowering Research with AI Award
The award was presented during the MIDAS AI in Research Symposium, highlighting researchers across disciplines—from biological sciences to music—who are integrating AI into their work.
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Aaron Morris Receives NIH MIRA Award to Advance Immune-engineering Approaches for Chronic Wounds
The award will support Dr. Morris’s research program aimed at understanding, and ultimately improving, why certain wounds fail to heal.
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U-M BME Researchers Receive Frankel Innovation Initiative Award to Examine Next Generation Real-Time Directional Mapping for Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy
With support from the Frankel Initiative, Enrico Opri and his collaborators are proposing a methodology that leverages a new biomarker, called “DBS local field potentials—evoked by stimulation—that tells us whether we are at the optimal brain location,” Dr. Opri said.
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Aaron Morris Receives NSF CAREER Award to Engineer Lymphoid Microenvironments to Understand T cell Reprogramming
This research focuses on T cells, including regulatory T cells (Tregs)—a specialized population that can dampen harmful inflammation. Photo credit: Claire Agosti, SayoStudio.