Professor Martin Yarmush and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital have been awarded a 4-year, $1,539,000 research grant from the NIH for a project entitled, "High subzero preservation of liver for transplantation”. The project proposes a method for preserving mammalian organs which employs hibernating and freeze-tolerant strategies from nature, that are further augmented using bioengineering principles.
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July 2017
July 17, 2017
School of Engineering professor David Shreiber has been named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Shreiber, whose three-year term commenced on July 1, 2017, replaces Noshir Langrana who served as chair for twelve years.
June 2017
June 28, 2017
Dr. Hacihaliloglu was awarded the second place for the ' Best Technical Podium Paper Competition' at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) which was held in Aachen Germany from June 14-17. The research paper was reporting on the results obtained from the 2016-2017 Senior Design project (Christina Spinelli, Michael Cieslak, Nick Rupertus, Peidong He, Zahraa Alsinan) which was performed under the supervision of Dr. Hacihaliloglu.
June 27, 2017
Scientists at Rutgers and other universities build technology that could lead to rapid discovery of new medicines and biomarkers hidden in genomes
June 12, 2017
A biomedical engineering senior design project team has been selected as one of five finalists in the MGH-APF 9th Annual Student Technology Prize in Primary Healthcare competition for their work on creating a diagnostic tool that will mitigate the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
June 10, 2017
“Everyone I bumped into at Rutgers made me do things the right way.” –Dennis Doblar
June 7, 2017
Professors David Shreiber (BME) and Mina Pelegri (MAE) were awarded a 2-year, $200,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research for their project, entitled Multi-Scale Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of White Matter. The primary aim of the project is to characterize and model how dynamic loads affect the behavior of individual axons within white matter as well as the behavior at the tissue level.
June 5, 2017
A research team from the Rutgers School of Engineering, which includes Biomedical Engineering faculty member Dr. Mark Pierce and his PhD student J. P. Dumas and Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member Dr. Waheed Bajwa and his PhD student Asad Lodhi, received the 2017 Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey during its annual retreat.
May 2017
May 24, 2017
At the Aresty Research Center's annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Sarah Salter's poster, "Encapsulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Alginate for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis" was chosen as one of the best.
Sarah is a BME undergrad and advised by Dr. Rene Schloss and Dr. Martin Yarmush. Congratulations Sarah.
May 23, 2017
Professors Martin Yarmush, Francois Berthiaume, Rene Schloss have been awarded a 2-year $200,000 research grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research for a project entitled, "Pulsed Electric Fields for Spinal Cord Injury Wound Healing." The project is based on the group's previous work showing that pulsed electric fields, which kill only the cells in skin (while leaving all extracellular structures intact), can improve wound healing after burn injury.