biomedical engineering
January 15, 2016
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture at a workshop in Doha, Qatar, in December. His lecture, titled "Quantitative Data Convergence: Integration of Radiology Pathology Omics Data for Predicting Disease Aggressiveness,” was part of the "Computer Vision for…
January 08, 2016
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,183,350 for his invention titled "Quantitatively characterizing disease morphology with cell orientation entropy.” The invention relates…
January 08, 2016
The Government of India selected Pallavi Tiwari, research assistant professor in biomedical engineering and in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, as one of the 100 Women Achievers of India. The award recognizes women who are making an impact in diverse fields.…
January 04, 2016
Mice are tumor-free and protected from metastases after treatment
The shells of a common plant virus, inhaled into a lung tumor or injected into ovarian, colon or breast tumors, not only triggered the immune system in mice to wipe out the tumors, but provided systemic protection against metastases,…
December 10, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), and his team were issued two patents—U.S. patent 9,177,105 and U.S. patent 9,177,014—in pattern recognition of cancer from digital pathology and imaging…
December 10, 2015
Combining nanotechnology with traditional chemotherapy drug and resistance-inhibitors A APP researcher has received a five-year, $2.82 million National Institutes of Health grant to make, in essence, stealth bombs that slip past the brain’s defenses to attack an…
October 28, 2015
Sen Gupta adapting platelet technology to treat stroke and heart attack Anirban Sen Gupta A APP researcher has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform clot-forming synthetic platelet technology into devices…
October 26, 2015
A five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at APP and Harvard University to build a microfactory that churns out a formula to produce joint cartilage. The end product could one day benefit many of the tens of millions of…
October 23, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, and Satish Viswanath, a research assistant, have been awarded U.S. patent 9,159,128. Their patent is titled “Enhanced multi-protocol analysis via intelligent…
October 20, 2015
The next Allen and Constance Ford Distinguished Lecture Series event will feature a panel discussion on the topic of “Forward Thinking: How Biomedical Engineering Can Positively Impact Health and Health Care.” The event will be held Monday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University…