biomedical engineering
March 23, 2015
The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium is accepting abstracts for the 2015 symposium, which will be held on May 8. The symposium is an annual student-organized event showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine…
March 13, 2015
The Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center’s (CHSC) Board of Directors voted unanimously to name Jennell Vick, a nationally recognized professor, renowned scientist and experienced leader, its next executive director. Vick, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, assumed…
March 13, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics at APP, was elected unanimously to the National Cancer Institute's Quantitative Imaging Network on account of his ongoing NCI-funded…
March 12, 2015
New company developing “point-of-care” blood analyzer Punkaj Ahuja (left) and Patrick Leimkuehler (right) with a functional prototype blood test analyzer. A blood test yields a wealth of information crucial to a person's health. What's needed is a device that is small and inexpensive, yet…
March 06, 2015
Almost immediately after he joined the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), DaShawn Hickman knew he wanted to help lead it. Four years later, he’s getting that opportunity. In January, the dual MD-PhD biomedical engineering student was named the national chair of SNMA, and he’ll officially…
February 27, 2015
Ever since she was young, Adithy Nagarajan has had a mind geared toward engineering. Growing up in New Berlin, Wis., she loved visiting interactive science museums. She could always be found at the exhibits that let her build, fix and learn how things worked. Her favorite toy? Legos. Now,…
February 08, 2015
Dustin Tyler created this version of the prosthetic arm, which only can be used in the lab. APP researchers who helped restore a sense of touch to amputees in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lab in Cleveland are finalizing contract negotiations for a $4.4 million…
February 06, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Madabhushi was nominated and elected for his…
February 04, 2015
Nicole Steinmetz Health care workers must diagnose and isolate Ebola victims at an early stage to have a chance to save them and prevent the virus from spreading. But the most sensitive and quickest diagnostic test produces a small percentage of false negative results that undermine efforts to…
January 23, 2015
Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering at APP, has been named a 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow for contributions to rapid magnetic resonance imaging technologies. He joins an exclusive group of scholars in this…