BME PhD student Panagiota (Pegy) Foteinou was awarded an SoE Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Pegy has developed an outstanding academic record here at Rutgers, with close to 10 archival publications. She was also the recipient of a Graduate School Bevier Fellowship, several travel grant awards, and has accepted a post-doctoral position at a prestigious university. She has also been involved with BME, helping with activities and mentoring undergraduates. There were two award recipients will both will receive $500 checks.
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May 2010
May 3, 2010
Professor Martin Yarmush has been awarded a 2-year, $486K NIH grant entitled, "A Composite Stem Cell Device for Combination Therapy of Acute Liver Failure". The overall goal of this project is to develop a composite cellular bioreactor for the treatment of liver failure that uses both hepatocytes and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a single unit. The work addresses the hypothesis that organ failure can best be treated by a dual approach: function replacement (provided by the hepatocytes), and anti-inflammatory treatment (provided by the MSCs).
May 2, 2010
The BME students have named Professor John K-J Li as the Teacher of the Year for his excellence during the Spring 2009 and Fall 2010 semesters. The award is given on behalf of the Engineering Governing Council. A reception is planned for Sunday May 2nd on College Avenue Campus in the Faculty Dining Room in Brower Commons.
May 1, 2010
Professors Mina Pelegri (MAE) and David Shreiber (BME) were awarded a 3-year $410,000 grant from the NSF for their project, entitled "Multi-Scale Modeling of Central Nervous System White Matter." The project aims to develop a modeling framework to describe the continuum level material behavior of white matter based on a micro-kinematic characterization of the resident axons. The framework can then be used to improve the predictive capabilities of finite element simulations of brain and spinal cord trauma.
April 2010
April 30, 2010
The NIH supported Rutgers-UMDNJ Biotechnology Training Program, directed by Professors Martin Yarmush and Aaron Shatkin, has been renewed for its fifth five-year cycle.
April 29, 2010
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) has been awarded a $393,795 training grant from the U.S. Department of Education program of Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN). The award entitled, "Training Tomorrows Leaders in Biomedical Engineering" will provide 3 full graduate fellowships per year for the next 3 years.
April 28, 2010
BME Undergraduate students were winners at the School of Engineering Poster Research Symposium on Friday, April 23, 2010:
The most innovative poster award prize went to:
1. Elaine Yu was awarded for her work on "Detection of Tubule Formation in Breast Cancer Histopathology", Mentor: Prof. Anant Madabhushi
2. Malav Desai and Namrata Kulkarni on "Development of tissue engineered bone using Chitosan-Alginate films", Mentor: Prof. Noshir Langrana
April 28, 2010
Professor Anant Madabhushi's ongoing work on computerized image analysis of digital pathology was referenced in a recent article on digital pathology that appeared in the May 2010 issue of the Scientific American.
April 27, 2010
BME undergraduate student James Hughes has been awarded a Wells H. Keddie Scholarship by the Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters. Professor Thomas Papathomasnominated James for his involvement as President of the Rutgers student chapter of "Engineers Without Borders", who volunteer their time and energy for enhancing the lives of people in developing countries, mainly by improving the local water supply. James received a monetary award and a plaque for this scholarship.
April 26, 2010
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Robert Toth, 4th year BME undergraduate was awarded first place in the School of Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium for his talk titled "Segmentation of the prostate from in vivo MRI images". This talk summarizes his research work over the past 24 months under the supervision of Professor Anant Madabhushi. As part of this award, Rob was given a ribbon and a cash prize of $250.