Directory with Faculty Research Interests
Prof. Yu-li Wang is awarded with a National Institutes of Health R01 grant entitled "Mechanical Regulation of Cell Migration". The project is to apply engineering approaches to understand how cell migration is affected by the input and output of mechanical signals under normal and diseased conditions.
Prof. Steve Chase is awarded with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award entitled "Neural Mechanisms of Skill Learning". The project is to use brain-computer interface to detect brain neuronal activities associated with the learning of motor skills.
[large photo]The Department of Biomedical Engineering has moved into its new home in Sherman & Joyce Bowie Scott Hall, which has been under construction since 2012. The location and design of the building, based on innovative concepts to promote interactions, collaborations, and resource sharing, are expected to greatly boost the research and education missions of the Department.
The research of Prof. Chris Bettinger on ingestible medical devices is described recently in Wired and Chicago Tribune. Prof. Bettinger has addressed a major obstacle of these devices by inventing a biocompatible ("edible') battery based on ingenious use of pigment molecules found in squids (read the article).
[large photo]PhD candidate Elnatan Mataev (left), together with other students (Sahil Rastogi, center; Nicholas Lamprinakos, right) advised by Prof. Cohen-Karni, published a paper in Nano Letters entitled "Synthesis of Group IV Nanowires on Graphene: The Case of Ge Nanocrawlers". The team synthesized novel hybrid nanowires with potential applications in a new generation of photo-sensors and electrical devices (see the publication and read the story).
Professor Kris Dahl was a guest editor for a special topic issue of the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, focusing on "Nuclear Mechanobiology". The journal is sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Society (see the issue).
Professor Bob Tilton delivered a keynote speech for the Surfactants and Detergents Program at the American Oil Chemists Society Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. The speech is about collaborative research with Professors Todd Przybycien and Steve Garoff on the effects of polymer-surfactant complexation on surface tension-driven flows at complex fluid interfaces.
BME Ph.D. student Diane Nelson won a Reviewers Choice Award for her abstract "In Vitro Evaluation of Lysophosphatidic Acid for use in Perfluoro-carbon-Based Pulmonary Delivery to Enhance Alveolar Repair Following Acute Lung Injury". The award allowed her to deliver a full-conference podium presentation at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Conference held on April 17-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Prof. Cohen-Karni received an NSF CAREER Award entitled "3D Nanosensors Array for Elucidating the Electrical Activity of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived Cardiomyocytes". The $500,000 grant is aimed to develop 3D nanosensors array for elucidating the electrical activity of induced pluripotent stem cells derived cardiomyocytes (see the announcement and read the news).
Professor Dennis Trumble won the Top Presentation Award for his presentation entitled "A Muscle-powered Counterpulsation Device for Tether-free Cardiac Support" at the Design of Medical Devices Conference held on April 12-14 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BME Ph.D. student Shinjini Kundu won the second place and Blue Martin was a finalist in this year's CMU Three Minute Thesis contest, an internationally recognized competition that challenges Ph.D. students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just 3 minutes (watch the video and read the news).
BME Associate Head Prof. Zapanta receives the 2016 Theo Pilkington Award from American Society for Engineering Education's Biomedical Engineering Division, for his significant contributions to biomedical engineering education as evidenced by the development of successful teaching programs, curricula, and publications.
BME student Eric Parigoris (BME and MechE '16) has received a Whitaker International Fellowship to go to ETH Zurich for a year of research. The Whitaker Fellowship sends emerging leaders in Biomedical Engineering overseas to advance their skill set and the larger profession (read the news).
Molly Blank, Ph.D. 2016, has leveraged her thesis research to found a startup company PalpAid. Her innovative technology for tracking benign breast masses has been selected by the AlphaLab Gear, a national startup accelerator, as a finalist for its National Hardware Cup.
Team CMU won a Gold Award in the 2015 Giant Jamboree Competition of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), with a project entitled "Biosensor Emission Analysis Machine". The team includes BME students Dominique Maccalla ('16) and Lei Mon Lu ('17). (read the news and see the poster).
Prof. Byron Yu and Steve Chase published a paper in eLife entitled "Internal models for interpreting neural population activity during sensorimotor control". Leveraging a brain-machine interface paradigm, the study examines neural population activities in the context of how prior briefs guide the transformation of sensory input into motor output (read the news and read the paper).
The group of Prof. Adam Feinberg published a paper in Science Advances on Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH), a technique for 3D printing of complex soft biological materials for tissue engineering (read the news or view a video demonstration).
