biomedical engineering

Case Western Reserve University researchers engineer better way to insert more flexible neural implants into soft brain tissue Brain scientists face a dilemma: Conventional wire implants are rigid and can sometimes traumatize that sensitive, vital organ; but softer materials now being tested by…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,851,421 titled “Differential Atlas for Cancer Characterization.” The described invention provides methods and…

The next Science Café Cleveland event will feature Anirban Sen Gupta, associate professor of biomedical engineering. At the event, titled "Using Artificial Platelet Nanotechnology to Better Regulate Blood Clotting," Sen Gupta will describe what scientists have learned about the platelets' complex…

Case Western Reserve University researchers make natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube…

Case Western Reserve University has been selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer valuable research grants and extensive mentorship to undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences. The university is one of just 12 institutions chosen nationally in 2018 to…

Pallavi Tiwari’s passion for biomedical engineering started in a garage in India. When she and a college friend realized the difficulty people with blindness have in navigating their surroundings—especially indoors—they set to work in Tiwari’s garage, teaching themselves how to solder. They then…

Device aims to benefit patients with spinal cord injuries, including combat veterans A team of researchers led by Kath Bogie, a biomedical engineer and associate professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a $1.8 million,…

After Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, received a NEPTUNE Ancillary Studies Grant from NephCure in October, he discussed his work for a piece on NephCure’s website. Madabhushi, also the director of The Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized…

Case Western Reserve “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields  You might not think a research area as detailed, technically advanced and futuristic as building robots with living materials would need help getting organized, but that’s precisely what Vickie Webster-Wood…

The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership, which helps to commercialize projects by clinicians and biomedical engineering faculty that improve human health and well-being, has awarded more than $1.1 million in financial backing and other support for the 2017 round of funding. The…