Professor John K-J. Li was invited to serve as Associate Editor for Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) International Conference which was held recently in Boston. EMBS is the largest international society for biomedical engineers. Prof. Li is responsible for reviews in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Engineering with accepted papers appearing online in IEEE Xplore.
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September 2011
September 14, 2011
Professor Martin Yarmush and colleagues at a new biotech start-up, Nivarta, Inc., have been awarded a 2-year, $700,000 NIH Phase I SBIR grant entitled, "Development of a discovery platform based on microfluidics and fluorescent cell functional assays". The overall goal of the project is to develop a discovery platform based on microfluidics and functional cell assays that is suitable for screening hundreds of proteins or small-molecule compounds simultaneously in a cost-effective and high throughput manner. The project is based on Prof.
September 12, 2011
Professor Martin Yarmush has been awarded a 4-year, $2.3M NIH grant entitled, "Recellularization of Liver Bioscaffolds". The project is focused on the development of techniques for decellularizing livers that are unsuitable for transplantation, and recellularizing them with stem cell derived hepatocyte-like cells. It is hoped that these new bioscaffolds will show more promise than the synthetic scaffold approach that has not yielded much success over the past 20 years.
September 11, 2011
BME, LCIB Graduate Students Ajay Basavanhally and Sahirzeeshan Ali have been awarded conference travel awards ($600 each) to help defray some of the costs for attending the Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA) workshop being held in conjunction with MICCAI 2011 in Toronto, Sept. 18, 2011. These students are advised by Dr. Anant Madabhushi. The travel awards were made possible via a travel grant from corporate sponsors Omnyx Inc.
September 3, 2011
Professor Anant Madabhushi (PI) and Ibris Inc., a start-up company founded by Professor Madabhushi and Dr. James Monaco in 2010, has been awarded a 1 year Phase 1 NIH SBIR award from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for the project entitled "Decision Support System for Predicting outcome of ER+ breast cancers". The goal of this project is to develop image based classifiers of disease aggressiveness based of quantitative analysis of digitized breast cancer biopsy specimens.Dr.
August 2011
August 10, 2011
Professor Martin Yarmush received a $45,000 Proof-of-Concept Grant from the Rutgers Office of Technology Commercialization. The funds will support the further development of a new biomaterial named "Adipogel", and to evaluate its use as an effective wound dressing for accelerated wound healing.
August 2, 2011
Professor Stavroula Sofou received a 2-year, $50,000 Busch Biomedical Research Grant from the Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund. The funds will support a research project entitled "Antivascular alpha-particle therapy by targeted liposomes loaded with Actinium-225".
August 1, 2011
Professor David Shreiber has been nominated and voted on to be the next BME Graduate Program Director effective August 1, 2011. Professor Shreiber replaces ProfessorPrabhas Moghe after his 4+ year role as program director. Professor Shreiber will co-direct with Dr Ramsey Foty from UMDNJ-RWJMS-Surgery. We thank Professor Moghe for his service.
July 2011
July 11, 2011
Professor Anant Madabhushi has been awarded a $25,000, 1 year, Technology commercialization grant to support his project entitled "Image based risk score predictor for ER+ breast cancers". Dr. Madabhushi will be validating his image analysis based technology in order to distinguish more aggressive from less aggressive ER+ breast cancers. If successful, this technology could ultimately replace more expensive molecular assays.
July 11, 2011
LCIB/BME graduate student Satish Viswanath has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Society of Imaging and Informatics in Medicine for his project entitled "Computerized Decision Support System for Detection of Cancer via In Vivo Multi-functional MRI". Satish is advised by Professor Anant Madabhushi.