biomedical engineering

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,”…