biomedical engineering

The Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center’s (CHSC) Board of Directors voted unanimously to name Jennell Vick, a nationally recognized professor, renowned scientist and experienced leader, its next executive director. Vick, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, assumed duties ...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics at Case Western Reserve University, was elected unanimously to the National Cancer Institute's Quantitative Imaging Network on account of his ongoing NCI-funded gra...

New company developing “point-of-care” blood analyzer Punkaj Ahuja (left) and Patrick Leimkuehler (right) with a functional prototype blood test analyzer. A blood test yields a wealth of information crucial to a person's health. What's needed is a device that is small and inexpensive, yet capable ...

Almost immediately after he joined the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), DaShawn Hickman knew he wanted to help lead it. Four years later, he’s getting that opportunity. In January, the dual MD-PhD biomedical engineering student was named the national chair of SNMA, and he’ll officially ...

Ever since she was young, Adithy Nagarajan has had a mind geared toward engineering. Growing up in New Berlin, Wis., she loved visiting interactive science museums. She could always be found at the exhibits that let her build, fix and learn how things worked. Her favorite toy? Legos. Now, Nagaraj...

Dustin Tyler created this version of the prosthetic arm, which only can be used in the lab. Case Western Reserve University researchers who helped restore a sense of touch to amputees in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lab in Cleveland are finalizing contract negotiations for a $4.4 million g...

Anant Madabhushi, professor and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Madabhushi was nominated and elected for his contri...

Nicole Steinmetz Health care workers must diagnose and isolate Ebola victims at an early stage to have a chance to save them and prevent the virus from spreading. But the most sensitive and quickest diagnostic test produces a small percentage of false negative results that undermine efforts to cont...

Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, has been named a 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow for contributions to rapid magnetic resonance imaging technologies. He joins an exclusive group of scholars in this hono...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, has been invited to serve as associate editor for the Journal of Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), one of the top international journals in computer science. MedIA ...