Professors Francois Berthiaume and Martin Yarmush have received a 2-year $442,327 NIH R21 grant. The goal of the project is to develop new nanoparticle-based delivery systems for various growth factors and bioactive peptides that can be incorporated into conventional modalities currently used in clinical wound applications. This work will lead to a new generation of topical therapies for improved skin wound healing.
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July 2016
June 2016
June 15, 2016
Professor David Shreiber has received a 2-year Pilot Research Grant
from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research for $180,000.
The goal of the project is to develop biomaterials that respond to
components of secondary brain injury to enable targeting of
therapeutics to the injury site.
June 8, 2016
BME Assistant Professor Ronke Olabisi's research was highlighted for an article featured in Tech Insider. In the article, they describe her research with hydrogels and how she uses them in tissue engineering applications. For the complete article, see http://www.techinsider.io/tissue-engineering-to-regrow-bones-and-skin-2016-5
June 8, 2016
Kate O'Neill has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition. Awards offered by the Ford Foundation seek to maximize the educational benefits of diversity and to increase the number of professors who will use diversity for enriching education. Kate has been extensively involved in outreach, especially at the New Brunswick High School, where she volunteers in a bilingual physics class and encourages students to pursue careers in science and engineering.
June 8, 2016
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $383,491 to Prosenjit Bagchi and Jeffrey Zahn for supporting a project entitled "Network Hemodynamics: A Computational Study of Cellular Blood Flow and Particulate Transport in Microvascular Capillary Networks." This award starts July 1 , 2016 and ends June 30, 2019.
May 2016
May 9, 2016
Andrea Gray was chosen as this year’s recipient of the Rutgers School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award. Andrea graduated in January 2016 after completing her PhD thesis entitled, “Approaches for Improving the Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells”, under the guidance of Professor Martin Yarmush. Andrea is currently a Staff Fellow in the Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies within the Center for Biological Evaluation and Research at the US Food and Drug Administration.
May 9, 2016
BME Professor Stavroula Sofou has been nominated and selected to be named as a Chancellor`s Scholar at Rutgers effective July 1, 2016. The Chancellor's Scholar initiative was created through the New Brunswick Strategic Plan to recognize truly outstanding and highly promising scholars at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. As a Chancellor`s Scholar, she will receive $5k towards her research account for innovative research initiatives and/or program development for up to five years.
April 2016
April 29, 2016
BME Senior Varun Arvind is honored for his outstanding academic record at Rutgers University. He is inducted into the Matthew Leydt Society. This Society is named for the university's first graduate, in 1774, from what was then Queens's College. It was established last year to honor Rutgers University's top graduates from Rutgers–New Brunswick, commencing with the class of 2015. Professor Prabhas Moghe is Varun's adviser.
April 29, 2016
The Graduate School makes up to six Dean's Research awards each year to graduate students for excellence in research. This year, BME PhD candidate Ayesha Aijaz was awarded a Dean's Research Award for her research in wound healing. Ayesha works in Professor Ronke Olabisi's lab.
April 29, 2016
Antoinette Nelson, a BME Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Antoinette is advised by Professor Patrick J. Sinko and her thesis focuses on the development of a nano-based mucosal pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. Antoinette also recently received her fifth travel award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to attend the American Society for Pharmacology and Emerging Therapeutics National Meeting.