The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the NIH has awarded Rutgers a $1.47M grant on Translational Research in Regenerative Medicine. This five year award (July 2012-June 2017) will support NIH Fellowships for postdoctoral scientists in the fields of biomaterials science and stem cell/tissue regenerative technologies.
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August 2012
July 2012
July 30, 2012
One of BME senior colleagues, Litsa Micheli-Tzanakou decided to retire after 31 years of service at Rutgers School of Engineering effective June 30, 2012. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as Assistant Professor in January 1981. When BME Department was formed in 1986 she was appointed as Co-Graduate Director. She was promoted to Professor I and served as the Second BME Chair from 1990 to 1998.
July 30, 2012
Professor Martin Yarmush and collaborators at the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded a 2-year, $2.2M grant from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the NIH for a project entitled, "A3-D Biomimetic Liver Sinusoid Construct for Predicting Physiology and Toxicity". The goal of this project is to construct a microfluidic liver module which mimics the functions and responses of the human liver, with readouts designed to indicate both normal liver function and toxic responses.
July 2, 2012
Research performed in the laboratory of Professor Martin Yarmush on the use of nanoporous gold to deliver drugs that can modulate cellular responses was featured on the March 2012 cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials. The goal of this work is to ultimately produce indwelling electrodes composed of drug-loaded nanoporous gold which can reduce the fibrotic reaction that frequently accompanies implantation. The paper`s results clearly demonstrated that drug release from nanoporous gold coatings could significantly reduce cellular proliferation.
June 2012
June 29, 2012
For the tenth year in a row, articles in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (ARBME) were cited more often than papers in any of its peer journals, according to ISI's 2009 Journal Citation Report, giving it the highest Impact Factor in its peer group. The ARBME had a 2011 Impact Factor of 12.214 (and a 5-year Imact Facor of 15.667) placing it #1 in the category "Engineering, Biomedical," of 72 journals, and #3 among allengineering journals (898 in total).
June 29, 2012
Professors Prabhas Moghe, Charles Roth and Richard Riman were recently awarded a two year, $420,127 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health entitled "Albumin-Encapsulated Rare Earth Nanoprobes for Multifunctional Tissue Imaging." The goal of this project is to exploit the previously untapped tissue transparency in the short wave infrared for in vivo optical imaging of disease states, including tumor metastasis.
June 25, 2012
Rutgers and The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia have been assigned a patent (8,204,315) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for classification of biological datasets." The co-inventors are Professor Anant Madabhushi, Michael D. Feldman, John E. Tomaszewski, Mark Rosen, and Jianbo Shi. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention relates to supervised or unsupervised classification of biological datasets.
June 19, 2012
For the fourth year in a row, articles in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (ARBME) were cited more often than papers in any of its peer journals, according to ISI's 2005 Journal Citation Report, giving it the highest impact factor in its peer group. Professor Martin Yarmush serves as the editor-in-chief of the ARBME which published its first volume in 1999.
June 13, 2012
Martin Yarmush, professor II in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the School of Engineering and the Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET), Rutgers New Brunswick, is the principal investigator of an award totaling $216,000. The project titled "Merging Innovation, Translational Medicine, and Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Engineering Senior Design" is being supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
June 8, 2012
Professors Martin Grumet, Martin Yarmush and Rene Schloss have been awarded a 3year, $500K+ grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury for a project entitled, "Minimally Invasive Lumbar Delivery of Encapsulated MSC for SCI". The overall goal of the project is to evaluate the therapeutic potential of encapsulated MSCs in a rat spinal cord injury model.