biomedical engineering

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…

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…

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…

Allison Kipling, a graduate student in the translational health technology master's program at Case School of Engineering, launched a company to develop a product that started as a class project. She won $10,000 in the Brien Holden Vision Competition in March for her business plan and used the…

Pallavi Tiwari, research assistant professor, and Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, were awarded a Phase II Coulter award on their project "NeuroRadVisionTM: Image based risk assessment for presence of recurrent tumor or radiation effects on MRI" at the Center for Computational…

A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma. In preclinical tests led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher, the artificial…

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a grant from The V Foundation for Cancer Research for $41,727. Their submission was titled "Use of PET and MR Imaging Biomarkers to Predict Response of Renal Cell Carcinoma to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor…

The Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University invites post-doctorate, graduate and undergraduate students to attend the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PiNO) Conference Friday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Thwing Center. Registration and…

Scott P. Bruder, adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, will present a talk titled "Creating a sustainable innovation portfolio in the evolving medical device sector” Wednesday, June 18, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Clapp Hall 108. Bruder is the chief medical and scientific officer at the Stryker…