biomedical engineering

The campus community is invited to celebrate the appointment of biomedical engineering department chair Robert F. Kirsch as the Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor in Biomedical Engineering. A chairing ceremony will take place Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 4:30 p.m., in the Nord Atrium. Guests can R...

Artificial platelet mimics developed by a collaborative research team from Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Santa Barbara, are able to halt bleeding in mouse models 65 percent faster than nature can on its own. For the first time, the researchers have been able to integ...

Jacob Antunes, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student, was awarded the "Reviewer's Choice Award" from the Biomedical Engineering Society conference for his poster, titled "Identifying PET/MRI Parameters for Early Treatment Response in Renal Cell Carcinoma." Co-authors on the poster include ...

Prateek Prasanna, a biomedical engineering PhD student, was named runner up for the young scientist award at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), a leading medical imaging conference, for his oral presentation, titled "Co-occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient Orien...

The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity invites the campus community to a lecture by Andrew M. Rollins, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine and faculty adviser of Engineers Without Borders, titled "Developing Our Students, and the World, Through Service." The presenta...

Case Western Reserve University researchers hope to take a healthy salad up a level by growing a vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer in leafy greens. “In the long run, one could think about administering the vaccine either by eating the salad or making a pill from the plant tissue,” sai...

System providing sensation for more than two years Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident four years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps. Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs raise when a researche...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded a R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study predicting aggressive head and neck cancers from digital pathology. His project is titled "His...

Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, awarded Shriya Srinivasan a $2000 scholarship for the 2014-2015 year. Tau Beta Pi Scholarships are awarded to junior members on a competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering ...

Close your eyes and you can get a sense of the challenges of blindness; a sense of deafness by plugging your ears. However, the most difficult of the five senses to understand the devastating impact of its loss is touch. Dustin Tyler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will discuss the ...