biomedical engineering

Samuel Herberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a 2016 Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The award recognizes two individuals…

Case Western Reserve University licenses new sensor technology to company pursuing fast-track FDA approval Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed a portable sensor that can assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood 95 times faster than current methods—using only a single…

A team of faculty members and a graduate student were jointly awarded U.S. patent 9,483,822 for their invention “Co-Occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient Orientations.” The team consisted of Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, Pallavi Tiwari, assistant…

The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2016 cycle. Four projects were selected for full program funding. Projects range from diagnostic and screening technologies to cancer therapeutics. Six pilot grants also…

Electrical stimulation mimics natural touch, enabling amputees to feel a range of intensity that allows them to hold a child's hand, precisely operate machinery and more Walking through a busy store, Keith Vonderhuevel confidently held his 5-year-old granddaughter’s hand with his prosthetic…

A team of biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University is among seven of 23 research teams from the 2016 I-Corps@Ohio program selected to present to potential investors at the upcoming Ohio Collegiate Venture Showcase. The team will present its new technology in brain tumor treatment…

Case Western Reserve University-led research could speed identification of recurrent tumors, eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more…

What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), and his team were issued three patents in digital pathology and precision medicine. U.S. patent 9,424,460 titled "Tumor plus…

Jon Whitney, a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics in Case School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named by Case Western Reserve University as a 2015 Hartwell Foundation Fellow. He was recognized for his…