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Faculty-student team participating in summer cohort of research commercialization program
A faculty-student team from Case Western Reserve University is participating in a state-funded effort to accelerate the commercialization of university research designed to serve as an economic development tool for new businesses and jobs. Called I-Corps@Ohio, the program is modeled after a…
Biomedical Engineering’s Hunter Peckham receives 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from American Spinal Injury Association
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional…
Biomedical engineering's Nicole Steinmetz awarded NSF CAREER grant
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai…
Malaria-detection device developed by CWRU researchers selected for federal Patents for Humanity award
Only university awarded in national competition Brian Grimberg, lead researcher and assistant professor of international health While the industrialized world has been free of malaria for 50 years, the disease remains a major humanitarian issue that affects the health and quality of life of…
Biomedical engineering’s Anant Madabhushi receives grant to develop methods to predict precursor of breast cancer
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a $387,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop image-based methods to predict aggression in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor of breast cancer. Madabhushi is the director of the Center for…
Biomedical Engineering Professor Colin Drummond's mix of real world into classroom earns him Wittke Award
Among the thick white binders that line a bottom shelf in Colin Drummond’s office is one filled with current events—news articles the biomedical engineering professor uses to pepper his courses with context to draw real life from theory. There’s The Wall Street Journal feature on how a promising…
Attend 38th annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium on May 8
The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium—an annual student-organized symposium showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine—will take place Friday, May 8, from 8 a.m. to…
Biomedical engineering's Anant Madabhushi part of three teams receiving grants for cancer research
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology/oncology, were awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant titled, "Radiogenomic approach for predicting pathologic complete response in HER2+ breast cancers" as part of the Case Comprehensive Cancer…
Anthropology, engineering students work together to solve global health problems
During spring break, Case Western Reserve University students and faculty traveled to Uganda to work with Ugandan colleagues in the social sciences and engineering on two global health projects. The project is part of an initiative linking Case Western Reserve students with biomedical engineering…
Biomedical engineering adjunct professor Scott Bruder wins prestigious award from AIMBE
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has selected Scott P. Bruder as the 2015 recipient of the Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor AIMBE bestows on an individual. Bruder serves as an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve…