Prof. Gustavo Rohde has been awarded an NIH R21 grant, entitled "Deformation-Based Computational Morphometry for Cell Biology Applications". The project is to develop sophisticated informatics tools for analyzing images acquired in cell biological studies.

Prof. Ender Finol has been awarded an NIH R21 grant, entitled "A
Fluid-Structure Interaction Method for Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Modeling". The project is to develop an efficient computational methodology for analyzing strongly coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) for domains with multiple materials. Prof. Finol has in addition received two supplemental awards for this grant, which will enable him to hire post-doctoral fellows.

Graduate student Sanna Gaspard received an Honorable Mention Graduate Student Research Award at the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Her study is entitled "A Point-of-Care Device for Quantitative Stage-I Pressure Ulcer Diagnosis Regardless of Skin Color".

BME graduate student Chris Highley receives the 2009-10 Dowd-ICES Fellowship, which provides support for graduate students doing cutting edge research. More...

Former BME M.D./Ph.D. student David Wang published two papers from his Ph.D. research with Prof. George Stetten.  The first describes successful clinical trials for “Sonic Flashlight”, a new image guidance device, in the placement of catheters in the deep veins of the arm.  The second paper describes an automated system for identifying the jugular vein and carotid artery using ultrasound.  Dr. David Wang has accepted a resident position in Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Professor and Head Yu-li Wang delivered the opening keynote speech, entitled "Fluorescence Imaging of Live Cells - Seeing and Understanding Leaves, Trees and Forests", at the 2009 European Light Microscopy Initiative Meeting held in Glasgow, Scotland on June 9-12, 2009.