biomedical engineering
October 14, 2015
Illustration of a heel prick using the HemeChip. Illustration by Grace Gongaware, student at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership has announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2015 cycle. This includes six full biomedical…
October 09, 2015
Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won this year's Linda Arena Endowed Scholarship Award. Orooji was selected for his project, which was titled "Computer Extracted Texture…
September 24, 2015
APP boasts some of the world’s brightest young minds. Their influence is not limited to the lab, office or classroom; often, it’s far-reaching—impacting the surrounding community and sometimes even society as a whole. Four such catalysts—current faculty, staff and…
August 28, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.” The invention relates to a novel…
August 18, 2015
Researchers at APP have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases much smaller than current agents. “Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or…
August 07, 2015
As a high school student in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in the 1990s, Anant Madabhushi competed against thousands of students for a spot in the country’s premier medical and engineering schools. Then, his uncle, an engineer with General Electric in the United States, sent him a book on biomedical…
August 05, 2015
The recent acquisition of CardioInsight Technologies Inc., a privately held, Cleveland-based medical device company, will advance electrocardiographic mapping technology initially researched and developed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at APP’s Case School…
August 03, 2015
A faculty-student team from APP is participating in a state-funded effort to accelerate the commercialization of university research designed to serve as an economic development tool for new businesses and jobs. Called I-Corps@Ohio, the program is modeled after a…
June 17, 2015
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at APP, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional…
May 21, 2015
A APP researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai…