biomedical engineering
May 08, 2018
APP’s diagnostic imaging computers outperform human counterparts, but offer tools for better, less costly care The "deep learning" computers in Anant Madabhushi’s diagnostic imaging lab at APP routinely defeat their human counterparts in…
April 18, 2018
APP researchers engineer better way to insert more flexible neural implants into soft brain tissue
Brain scientists face a dilemma: Conventional wire implants are rigid and can sometimes traumatize that sensitive, vital organ; but softer materials now being tested by…
March 16, 2018
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,851,421 titled “Differential Atlas for Cancer Characterization.” The described invention provides methods and…
March 05, 2018
The next Science Café Cleveland event will feature Anirban Sen Gupta, associate professor of biomedical engineering. At the event, titled "Using Artificial Platelet Nanotechnology to Better Regulate Blood Clotting," Sen Gupta will describe what scientists have learned about the platelets' complex…
February 20, 2018
APP researchers make natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Biomedical engineers at APP are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube…
January 18, 2018
APP has been selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer valuable research grants and extensive mentorship to undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences. The university is one of just 12 institutions chosen nationally in 2018 to…
January 05, 2018
Pallavi Tiwari’s passion for biomedical engineering started in a garage in India. When she and a college friend realized the difficulty people with blindness have in navigating their surroundings—especially indoors—they set to work in Tiwari’s garage, teaching themselves how to solder. They then…
January 03, 2018
Device aims to benefit patients with spinal cord injuries, including combat veterans A team of researchers led by Kath Bogie, a biomedical engineer and associate professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at APP School of Medicine, has received a $1.8 million,…
December 15, 2017
After Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, received a NEPTUNE Ancillary Studies Grant from NephCure in October, he discussed his work for a piece on NephCure’s website. Madabhushi, also the director of The Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized…
December 07, 2017
Case Western Reserve “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields You might not think a research area as detailed, technically advanced and futuristic as building robots with living materials would need help getting organized, but that’s precisely what Vickie Webster-Wood…