Prof. Anant Madabhushi (lead PI) and Dr. Shridar Ganesan (Co-PI) were awarded a $55,000 grant for their project entitled "Histologic Image based classifiers of outcome in Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancers" from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. This 1 year project will focus on developing quantitative image descriptors for prognosis prediction of ER+ breast cancers based on analysis of H&E stained histopathology tissue sections alone.
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July 2009
June 2009
June 29, 2009
Dr. Boustany received an award from the NSF for her project entitled "Optical Fourier Processing Microscope Based on Two-Dimensional Gabor Filters". The project aims to develop novel instrumentation for highly sensitive analysis of subcelullar structure. The project was funded under the NSF Instrumentation Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Program. NSF expects to fund this project for three years at $416,507.
June 5, 2009
Professor Charles Roth has been awarded a two-year R01 grant from the NIH for his project "Efficient Cellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides". This $687,000 grant was made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and will support mechanistic studies and preclinical development of a novel platform for oligonucleotide delivery.
June 2, 2009
Professor David Shreiber received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the NSF. The CAREER Award, which is NSF's most prestigious honor for junior faculty, provides $400,000 over a 5-year period.
May 2009
May 28, 2009
CBE graduate student and Nanopharmaceuticals IGERT Trainee Carolyn Waite received two awards today at the 2009 Annual Retreat on Cancer Research in New Jersey, where she presented her recent work on targeted siRNA delivery to tumor spheroids. She received a Gallo Award for outstanding graduate students and a New Jersey Cancer Research Award for Scientific Excellence, given to the best abstracts presented at this year's symposium. Carolyn is advised by Prof. Charlie Roth.
May 27, 2009
Professor Martin Yarmush has been appointed to the editorial boards of the "Journal of Hepatology" and the "Journal of Tissue Engineering". Both are open-access and peer-reviewed forums for the publication of scientific research in the fields of hepatology and tissue engineering and their clinical application.
May 19, 2009
Anant Madabhushi has been awarded a NIH award to supplement his ongoing parent NIH grant "Detecting Prostate Cancer Using 3 Tesla Multi-Protocol MRI/MRS". The $70,000 award from the National Cancer Institute will provide funding for several undergraduate and high school students in his lab, the Laboratory for Computational Imaging and Bioinformatics, over the summer of 2009.
May 7, 2009
John McBride, a BME undergraduate senior student received an Aresty grant of $1,000 for his research on the project entitled Novel Bio-potential Monitor for Neonatal Intensive Care. The device will provide noninvasive evoked potential monitoring of neonates in the clinics. He has presented a poster at the recent Aresty undergraduate research conference. His mentor is Professor John K-J. Li.
May 4, 2009
Chirag Walawalkar, President of BME's Biomedical Engineering Society, received an Aresty grant of $1,000 for his research on the project entitled Novel Blood Glucose Monitor with Controlled Reverse Iontophoresis. The device will eventually benefit the diabetic patients through automated detection of blood glucose and subsequent transdermal delivery of insulin. Chirag was also interviewed by the Home News and is working under the mentorship of Professor John K-J. Li.
April 2009
April 26, 2009
The Engineering Governing Council recently announced that Professor Anant Madabhushiwas selected by the Biomedical Engineering students to receive the 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award. Anant has been selected for this award three years a in row. The award will be presented during the Leadership Conference on May 3, 2009.