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Using big data to identify triple-negative breast, oropharyngeal and lung cancers
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and colleagues used “big data” analytics to predict if a patient is suffering from aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, slower-moving cancers or non-cancerous lesions with 95 percent accuracy. If the tiny patterns they found in magnetic resonance ...
CWRU wins $1.9 million grant to lead artificial platelet study
Researchers aim to staunch bleeding, detect and treat disease A research team led by Case Western Reserve University and collaborating with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation received a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop injectable artificial platelets that halt bleeding ...
Biomedical engineering's Dustin Tyler receives SPiRE grant
Dustin Tyler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is a co-lead investigator on a team that received a $199,913 grant from the Rehabilitation Research and Development (RRD) Service Small Projects in Rehabilitation Research (SPiRE) program to develop advanced in-line connectors. In the stu...
Longtime engineering professor Roger Marchant passes away
Services will be held on campus this Saturday in memory of longtime biomedical engineering professor Roger Marchant, who died last week at the age of 62. Marchant, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Case Western Reserve, spent his entire professional career at the university. In additi...
Biomedical engineering's Eben Alsberg appointed to editorial boards, academic society
Eben Alsberg, associate professor of biomedical engineering, recently was selected to the editorial board of Tissue Engineering, a leading journal in his field, and Nature Scientific Reports. He also was elected to the Americas Council of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Internation...
Researchers receive grant to build complex polymer nanostructures on plant virus scaffolds
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received a $540,000 federal grant to devise methods for building minute structures tailored to precisely deliver medicines to tumors or carry dyes that help imaging technologies detect disease, create more efficient nanowires and nanoelectronics, a...
5 questions with…TEDx speaker, biomedical engineer Megan Moynahan
Megan Moynahan’s early interest in biomedical engineering stemmed from an article she read in a science magazine about bionic people and the idea of artificial organs and limbs. As a 14-year-old, she wrote letters to researchers to help her replicate a famous experiment by physicist Luigi Galvani f...
CWRU researchers use nanotechnology to fight aggressive cancers
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received two grants totaling nearly $1.7 million to build nanoparticles that seek and destroy metastases too small to be detected with current technologies. They are targeting aggressive cancers that persist through traditional chemotherapy and ca...
5 questions with…biomedical engineering faculty member, race car driver Cameron McIntyre
Like anyone else, Cameron McIntyre likes to unwind after a long week in the office or, in his case, the lab. However, his idea of relaxing doesn’t involve the calm of a golf course or ballgame; rather, he prefers a seat behind the steering wheel of a race car, taking hairpin turns at breakneck speed...
Biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science chairs named
Case Western Reserve University has appointed Robert F. Kirsch chairman of the biomedical engineering department and Kenneth A. Loparo chairman of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Kirsch and Loparo are prolific researchers, proven leaders among their peers and consistentl...