Tag: Awards
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BME Faculty Kelly Arnold, Muneesh Tewari Among Bold Challenges 2025 Boost Cohort
The Bold Challenges Initiative, now in its third cohort, funds early-stage, boundary-pushing research teams with up to $75,000 and personalized workshops, accelerating projects with the potential for large-scale impact.
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U-M BME’s Undergraduate Program Ranked #6 in U.S. News & World Report
The College of Engineering maintained its strong ranking of #5 nationwide for the second consecutive year, reinforcing Michigan’s place among elite institutions advancing engineering education, research, and innovation.
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Ph.D. Student Jingrui Liu Receives 2025 Derek Tat Memorial Award
Dr. Chestek established the award to recognize second-year Ph.D. students who excel in research and mentoring others.
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U-M BME Awards $1.4M in Funding to 13 Multidisciplinary Teams Via the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
Established with a $20M endowment in 2005, the U-M BME Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program supports research directed at promising technologies within research laboratories that are progressing towards commercial development and clinical practice.
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Collaboration, Innovation Lead to Success at iGEM for the Michigan Synthetic Biology Team
MSBT has been making significant strides in bringing synthetic biology solutions to pressing environmental and health issues.
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BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan Highlight the ‘Future of Neurotechnology’
The event also featured a new session: a student-focused hackathon, which encouraged hands-on collaboration and rapid prototyping developed around neurotechnology-themed challenges.
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Cindy Chestek Named a 2025 MBioFAR Recipient
Launched in 2018, MBioFAR was created to support “superstar” mid-career researchers at a pivotal point in their careers.
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MIDAS PODS Grant Fuels U-M BME Innovation in Drug Synergy Prediction Using AI
Many computational models work on the principle of “homophily”—assuming that similarly acting drugs will yield the best results. However, this assumption may overlook the complexity of biological systems.
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Michigan Neuroscientist Changyang Linghu Awarded Klingenstein Fellowship
The Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience were established in 1981 by the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund to advance research on neurological disorders.
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BME Ph.D. Student Receives FIMH Conference Award
The award recognized Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.