Below mentioned are some of the sub-disciplines that lead to a better and higher level of
biomedical engineering research -
Another disadvantage to
biomedical engineering research is that it may take longer for work to come to fruition than in other, simpler fields.
Not exact matches
After more than a decade of
research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey,
biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.
Brendan Frey, CEO of Deep Genomics and a
biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, says his
research team trained its system to analyze individual cells to draw conclusions about the entire cellular system and, ultimately, make a diagnosis.
Her accomplishments are impressive: she speaks five languages, holds a master's in
biomedical engineering, and pursued a career as a cancer
research scientist.
Much of the
research on the applications of silk come out of the Tufts School of
Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., in particular from the work of two
biomedical engineering researchers, Fiorenzo Omenetto and David Kaplan.
Maggie is a chemical
engineer with a background in experimental and computational
biomedical research and genetic
engineering.
«However, this poses several challenges,» says Chao Wang, co-lead author of a paper on the microneedle
research and a postdoctoral researcher in the joint
biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC - Chapel Hill.
The Whitaker Foundation (Arlington, Va.), which awards grants for
research and education in
biomedical engineering at academic institutions in the United States and Canada, has a wealth of information about the field, including a list of programs that offer graduate degrees, on its Web site.
Sunday's vote ended an energetic campaign by Swiss biologists to convince the public that transgenic laboratory animals are essential to
biomedical research, and that genetic
engineering can provide benefits without posing a serious threat to the environment.
A long - standing and fervent supporter of
biomedical research — and a veteran of recurrent cancer, open heart surgery, and a mistaken diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease — Specter
engineered, with Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA), the original 1998 to 2003 doubling of NIH funding.
Also at the NUS, the Laboratory for
Biomedical Engineering focuses on
research efforts in
biomedical engineering between and among the various centres and groups from the
engineering, medicine, dentistry, and science faculties.
- The Wellcome Trust - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowships to support
research at the interfaces between biology, medicine, mathematics,
engineering, computer, and physical or chemical sciences and other
biomedical science grants
Jim Collins, a
biomedical engineer from Boston University not involved in the study, is interested in how the
research expands the capabilities of genetic
engineering.
The nation began ramping up its investments into
biomedical research around 2000, notes Chwee Teck Lim, an entrepreneur and provost's chair professor in the departments of
biomedical engineering and mechanical
engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
If you are a
biomedical engineer developing scaffolds to grow cartilage for regenerative medicine, you are unlikely to publish in top biology journals because your
research is not viewed as fundamental, Viceconti says.
The body of scientific knowledge and skills needed to work in
biomedical engineering is just as diverse as the range of
research topics.
The project has been a highly collaborative one, says Vunjak - Novakovic, whose team included three
biomedical engineers, a lung transplant surgeon, and a pulmonologist: «This study is truly emblematic of how
biomedical research is conducted at Columbia University.»
Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a
biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion
Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.
Michael Yartsev received his undergraduate and master's degrees in
biomedical engineering from Ben - Gurion University, Israel, in 2007 and conducting his doctoral
research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel before joining Princeton University in 2012.
James Collins, a professor of
biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not associated with this
research, says, «Efforts in synthetic biology to create complex gene circuits are often hindered by unanticipated or uncharacterized interactions between submodules of the circuits.
«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says
biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced
engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical
Research in Manhasset, New York.
Other main contributors include Thomas Milner, professor of
biomedical engineering in UT Austin's Cockrell School of
Engineering and his lab members; Jialing Zhang,
research associate at the Eberlin Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
In new
research published in PLoS Biology, a
biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has a new interpretation for an old observation, debunking an established theory in the process.
«Very elderly patients» bodies can't handle that,» said Cyndi Clark,
research assistant professor of
biomedical engineering and the first author on the paper.
Tilak Ratnanather, now an assistant
research professor in the department of
biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had a very helpful admissions tutor at his university in the United Kingdom.
Complementing the new education are additional funds to facilitate more innovative, interdisciplinary
research projects, particularly in new and rapidly evolving areas such as genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, tissue
engineering, bioinformatics, and
biomedical engineering.
The
biomedical engineering students met with Salimpour to learn about the
research he conducts in a clinical setting.
We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and
biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging
Research.
«With Teresa Woodruff's
research using Draper's human organ system platform, we have a compelling demonstration of the importance of a microenvironment that permits cells to function in vitro as they would in vivo, and the power of being able to interconnect organ models on a platform and operate them in a stable and precise manner for weeks to months,» said Jeffrey T. Borenstein, a
biomedical engineer at Draper.
«One of the main barriers to treating and preventing HIV is adherence,» says Giovanni Traverso, a
research affiliate at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women's H
research affiliate at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer
Research and a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women's H
Research and a gastroenterologist and
biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
She was assisted by co-authors Thomas Neuberger, assistant professor of
biomedical engineering in Penn State's Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, working with the Penn State's High - Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, and Kate Anthony,
research technician in animal science.
Bendy Estime, a
biomedical and chemical
engineering Ph.D. candidate, has devoted his
research to this area, and developed a new technology for energy efficient cultivation and harvesting of microalgae.
Anthony Fiumera, associate professor of biological sciences, and Gretchen Mahler, assistant professor of
biomedical engineering, are collaborating on a
research project funded by a Binghamton University Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence (TAE) grant to discover the role ingested nanoparticles play in the physiology and function of the gut and gut microbiome.
Biomedical Engineering (BME),
Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD), and Biophotonics Programs This program supports research that applies engineering principles to problems in biomedical science while contributing to the body of knowledge in engi
Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD), and Biophotonics Programs This program supports
research that applies engineering principles to problems in biomedical science while contributing to the body of knowledge in engi
research that applies
engineering principles to problems in
biomedical science while contributing to the body of knowledge in
engineering.
She plans to do theoretical as well as applied
research and steer her
research toward energy, electronic, and
biomedical applications, combining materials science, applied physics, and
engineering with biomedicine.
Peiyuan Wang, graduate student, kinesiology; Amanda Chennavasin, recent undergraduate,
biomedical engineering; Jacqueline R. Tucker, sophomore,
biomedical engineering; Marissa Reynolds, project coordinator; Cynthia L. Huang - Pollock, associate professor, psychology; and Koraly Pérez - Edgar, associate professor, psychology, all at Penn State; and Shaadee Samimy, graduate student, psychology, now at The Ohio State University, also contributed to this
research.
In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic
research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the
biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and
biomedical engineering.
Mathew Yarossi, a
biomedical engineer at Kessler Foundation, co-authored the
research.
PHENOMIN offers an international and first class 4 - day session training to provide
engineers (Master's degrees), PhDs and researchers with a wealth of information about the good practices regarding the use of mouse models in
biomedical research.
In addition to Professor He, who also serves as director of the University of Minnesota Institute for
Engineering in Medicine, the
research team includes
biomedical engineering postdoctoral researcher Jianjun Meng (first author);
biomedical engineering graduate student Bryan Baxter; Institute for
Engineering in Medicine staff member Angeliki Bekyo; and
biomedical engineering undergraduate students Shuying Zhang and Jaron Olsoe.
Expertise to design and produce genetically
engineered mouse models for use in biological and
biomedical research.
«Our
research team includes
biomedical engineers, biochemists, surgeons and a lawyer working on every aspect of this game - changing field of medicine so it becomes part of everyday medical practice in the near future.
Our current
research focuses on the discovery and functional characterization of novel proteins, the rational
engineering of proteins with improved functional properties, and de novo design of molecular scaffolds for a variety of biotechnological and
biomedical applications.
«Sometimes Cas9 can recognize sequences that are very similar but not identical to the target sequence,» said biological
engineer Feng Zhang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a co-founder of Editas and head of a lab at the Broad Institute, a Harvard - MIT
biomedical research collaborative.
My work spans
research in photonic devices, optical systems
engineering, optimization, computer vision, and
biomedical applications.
As one of six GRA universities, Emory has benefited from this unique partnership in numerous ways: through its 11 Eminent Scholars, multidisciplinary university and industry collaborations, and support for
research in vaccines, nanomedicine, transplantation, neurosciences, pediatrics,
biomedical engineering, clinical
research, and drug discovery.
The team will also carry out Mars - relevant
engineering research, testing
biomedical tele - science, spacesuit technologies, EVA traverse strategies, astronaut cross-training in the field and habitat technologies.
The MDI Biological Laboratory inaugurates its Center for Science Entrepreneurship this week with a new course that will help University of Maine and College of the Atlantic science and
engineering undergraduates explore approaches to
biomedical research using concepts and tools that promote collaboration across disciplines.
The BioE joint program is a unique intercampus, interdisciplinary graduate program that combines the strength of the
biomedical sciences and
engineering at UCSF with the outstanding
engineering, physical, and life sciences
research at Berkeley.