Researchers developed a new method using two-photon polymerization with multiple foci to create finely detailed structures, such as tissue scaffolds and microneedles, more quickly than traditional techniques. This enables faster production of microscale medical devices for tissue engineering applications.
A recent study by Erin Cech found that women engineering students develop less confidence in their engineering expertise and career fit compared to men, leading to lower persistence rates. The study suggests that subtle biases and cultural ideologies contribute to this issue.
Researchers at North Carolina State University and Purdue University have shown that gallium nitride (GaN) is non-toxic and biocompatible, making it a promising material for biomedical implants. The material was found to be stable in environments mimicking the human body and bonded effectively with cells when coated with peptides.
William M. Tierney, Regenstrief Institute president and Indiana University School of Medicine associate dean, will receive the AMIA Morris F. Collen Award for his efforts to advance biomedical and health informatics. He has implemented and studied electronic health record systems globally, including in Africa.
David A. Estell, a Genencor researcher, received the Enzyme Engineering Award for his work on protein engineering and developing efficient proprietary technology for producing advanced biofuels. He has also initiated new technology development and holds over 70 issued U.S. patents.
Researchers found widespread disagreement among scientists studying cancer metastasis, with no two scenarios identical. The study suggests making assumptions explicit can improve biomedical modeling and create new opportunities for understanding alternative theories.
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed an iPhone app that measures vital signs such as heart rate and blood oxygen saturation using a built-in video camera. The technology is comparable in accuracy to traditional medical monitoring devices, allowing patients to carry an accurate physiological monitor anywhere.
Researchers advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships between academia and industry to improve population health and address health inequities. They also propose training grants to bridge the 'valley of retirement' as experienced researchers retire.
The European Medical Research Councils' White Paper assesses the current status of biomedical research in Europe and its international collaborators. The report highlights five key recommendations to improve the quality of life for Europeans and address global challenges.
The FASEB MARC Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research. For the 2011 EMS Annual Meeting, 1 student received a $1650 travel award.
The Newark College of Engineering at NJIT has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a five-year program to keep engineering students enrolled. The ENGAGE program aims to improve student-faculty interaction and spatial visualization skills through evidence-based research-based strategies.
Researchers developed a noninvasive technique called Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) to map the source and pattern of ventricular tachycardia (VT) in just one heartbeat. The technology, which combines CT scans with electrocardiograms, can generate movies of VT excitation waves and reveal even more about the nature of the arrhythmia.
The University of Houston will provide 12 high school science teachers with research experience in nanotechnology through a three-summer grant program. The program aims to attract students to engineering and increase the country's STEM talent pool.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Dartmouth Medical School a $11 million grant to establish a network of institutions in northern New England for quantitative biologists. The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence will recruit, train, and support young scientists to investigate the interaction between genes and environment.
The University of Southampton has received £17m funding to support its world-leading nutrition and respiratory research facilities. The National Institute for Health Research has allocated £7.3m to the Respiratory Biomedical Research unit, while the Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle Biomedical Research Centre will receive £9.6m.
TRIAD simplifies biomedical research by aggregating and analyzing rare data, reducing time spent on data translation. The platform is adopted by multiple institutions worldwide, including the National Cancer Institute, for groundbreaking projects like CLL Research Consortium.
Biomedical education leaders propose a new model that breaks down silos between disciplines, teaching students to work across fields and study organisms at multiple levels. The new framework includes hands-on training and skills courses to help students tackle fundamental biological questions.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded $4,950 to 3 students and postdoctorates from underrepresented minority groups for their poster/platform presentations at the ASBMR 2011 Annual Meeting. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical research through mentorship and career development opportunities.
Charles Darkoh, a UTHealth graduate student, has been awarded a prestigious UNCF/Merck fellowship to conduct research on multidrug-resistant Clostridium difficile bacterial infection. His work aims to develop a cost-efficient diagnostic test and novel therapeutic strategies for C. difficile infection.
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has launched the Helios Scholars Program, a 8-week internship that strengthens biomedical education. The program provides high school, undergraduate and graduate level students with hands-on research access in state-of-the-art laboratories.
UK PubMed Central will be led by EMBL-EBI for the next five years, providing access to over 2 million full-text biomedical research articles. The service aims to build a gold-standard digital repository for the biomedical literature, benefiting researchers worldwide.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to launch a national center for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering. The center at Stanford's School of Engineering will provide resources, including curriculum development, dissemination tools, and industry mentorship, to undergraduate engineering stud...
The Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) has received a $60,000 grant from the Chicago Biomedical Consortium to improve its operations and increase efficiency. The program, which cultivates university technology commercialization, now has nearly 60 mentors and 20 mentoring projects underway.
A comprehensive whole sequence variation map of rhesus macaque has been published, providing a valuable resource for evolutionary and biomedical research. The study identified 5.5 million SNPs and 125,150 structural variations, including annotated nonsynonymous SNPs related to human disease and drug-target genes.
The FASEB MARC Program has selected three travel award recipients to promote diversity in the basic science community and encourage young scientists at the 2011 SLB Meeting. The awards totaled $4,950 and aim to increase competitiveness of underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical research.
Researchers call for integrated strategies to prevent HIV infection, building on progress in vaccine research and the development of a vaginal gel. A combination of biomedical and non-biomedical approaches is seen as crucial to address the evolving landscape of HIV prevention.
Professor Ali Khademhosseini, a leading expert in biomedical microdevices and biomaterials, will join the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering as a Donald D. Harrington Fellow. He aims to develop tissue-engineered organs and control cell behavior using novel, modular approaches.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded $13,200 to 8 students and postdoctorates from underrepresented minorities for their participation in the SDB 70th Annual Meeting. The awards aim to promote diversity in the biomedical research community.
The University of Missouri has secured a $5 million grant from the Coulter Foundation to support collaborative projects between biomedical engineers and clinicians. The funding will enable researchers to take their discoveries to clinical practice, with the goal of improving patient lives and suffering worldwide.
The University of Arizona College of Engineering has been awarded grants from the US Department of Defense to develop high-tech measuring equipment for real-world applications in chemical and civil engineering. Armin Sorooshian's project aims to study cloud droplets and their effect on precipitation, while Jennifer Duan's project focus...
The 2011 Pew Scholars will advance research leading to medical breakthroughs and treatments, covering human diseases like Alzheimer's and diabetes. The program, investing over $125 million, recognizes early-career scientists with innovative ideas.
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named 10 outstanding early-career Latin-American scientists as Pew Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. The program provides $60,000 in salary support and additional funding to establish research laboratories in their home countries.
The FASEB MARC Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical research, with a total of $1,650 awarded this year. Dr. Patricia B. Lodato from University of Maryland School of Medicine has been selected as the recipient of the FASEB MARC Travel Award.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded $9,900 to underrepresented minority students and postdoctorates attending the AAI 2011 Advanced Course in Immunology. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical and behavioral research.
The Heat Wave system uses heated, humidified air delivered through an oxygen mask to rapidly transfer heat to the blood via convection. Tests show it's more effective than current treatments, decreasing treatment time for hypothermic patients to just four hours.
The FASEB MARC Program has announced a $1,650 travel award recipient for the 2011 GSA C. elegans meeting. The program aims to increase underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical research, with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded 3 travel grants totaling $4,950 to support underrepresented minority students and postdoctorates at the 22nd American Peptide Symposium. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical research by promoting participation of young scientists from underrepresented groups.
The FASEB MARC Program has selected two award recipients for the 2011 GSA Mouse Genetics conference, recognizing poster/platform presenters and faculty mentors from underrepresented minority groups. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical research by providing travel awards totaling $3,300.
Dr. Joseph V. Brady, a pioneer in spaceflight training, is being honored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) with its Pioneer Award. NSBRI recognizes his role in launching early US human spaceflights and his contributions to the field of behavioral biology.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded a travel grant of $1,650 to promote diversity in the field of bioinformatics. The award recognizes Cynthia N. Prudence's poster/platform presentation at the ISCB Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference.
Fiorenzo Omenetto, a Tufts biomedical engineer, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to develop bioresorbable optical and electronic components. His research focuses on silk-based photonics, which could address unmet needs in medical, food safety, and environmental applications.
Louisiana Tech University students Louis Reis and Mark Wade have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The fellowships provide three years of support for their graduate education in science and engineering research.
Three UC San Diego researchers, Jack Bui, Pamela Itkin-Ansari and Adriana Tremoulet, receive $100,000 grants for their innovative research on improving childhood diseases. Their projects focus on immune system responses to cancer, Type-1 diabetes treatment and Kawasaki disease diagnosis.
The FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 2011 GSA 26th Fungal Genetics meeting. Three awards totaling $4,950 were conferred to underrepresented minority students and scientists. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical research.
Dr. Christopher J. Morris, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). He will investigate the effects of sudden shifts in sleep/wake patterns on the cardiovascular system in astronauts.
Dr. Joel D. Oppenheim of New York University School of Medicine has been honored with the 2010 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award for his efforts to increase diversity in the Ph.D. biomedical workforce. He has successfully recruited and supported students from underrepresented backgrounds, transforming institutional demographics.
Scientists can now focus light to a controllable position within tissue, overcoming the challenges of scattering in biological tissues. This breakthrough technology uses an ultrasound guide star and time-reversal mirror to create high-resolution images of objects within tissue.
The Chicago Biomedical Consortium has secured a five-year funding extension of $25 million from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. This support fuels innovative multi-institutional collaborations, resulting in over 200 published papers and $118 million in grants.
The FASEB MARC Program has awarded 5 travel grants to promote diversity in biomedical research, totaling $8,250. The awards recognize underrepresented minority students and postdoctorates participating in ABRF 2011.
The FASEB MARC Program awarded 3 travel grants totaling $3000 to support underrepresented minorities at the 2011 ACSM Texas Chapter Annual Meeting. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical research through mentorship and career development opportunities.
The FASEB MARC Program has selected two recipients to receive travel awards totaling $2,000 for their poster presentations at the 2011 ACSM Southeast Chapter Annual Meeting. The program aims to increase diversity in biomedical and behavioral research by supporting underrepresented minority students and postdoctorates.
Quality of life measures are most useful in breast cancer clinical trials using non-biomedical interventions. The authors recommend including QOL measures as secondary endpoints in adjuvant therapy trials for vulnerable populations or when minimal survival difference is expected.
Ananth Annapragada, a professor at UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics, has been inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows for his innovative research and entrepreneurial endeavors. He is being honored for his work on glucose-sensing technology and contrast agents for medical imaging.
Four leaders in biomedical and health informatics received the AMIA Signature Awards for their groundbreaking work in digitalizing health data and information. Adam Wright's research on clinical decision-support systems and data mining transformed patient care, while Judy Ozbolt's pioneering work in nursing informatics improved profess...
Dr. Don Detmer is recognized for his efforts to advance biomedical and health informatics through his work at AMIA. He emphasizes the importance of electronic health records in delivering high-quality care.
Jacob Hooker, a Brookhaven National Laboratory assistant chemist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was recognized for his research on radiochemistry and biomedical imaging, as well as his efforts to mentor and outreach to the community.
A new study published in PLOS ONE reveals that full-text analysis is needed to uncover duplicate citations in the scientific literature. The researchers found that most papers are novel, but certain sections like the introduction and methods section frequently have reused content. The study offers hope for developing guidelines on acce...
Researchers at UC San Diego are developing a national center for biomedical computing, iDASH, to share anonymized data and create novel algorithms. The grant aims to democratize science and bridge the computational divide between institutions.
The UK's NIHR Biomedical Research Centres have established a cutting-edge translational research infrastructure, driving progress in disease research and treatment. With strong focus on interdisciplinary working, public engagement, and industry partnerships, the centres aim to deliver rapid benefits for patients.
NASA has formed a single systems engineering organization for its James Webb Space Telescope, combining Northrop Grumman's expertise with NASA's mission-level decision-making. The new team aims to streamline communication and decision-making, reducing costs and meeting the launch goal with minimal risk.