Professor Yannis Androulakis is a member of a collaborative research team of Rutgers, UMDNJ, Princeton, and FDA researchers, headed by Professors Welsh and Georgopoulos of UMDNJ, selected to establish the nation's first and only EPA-supported National Center of Excellence for Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology. The initial award totals ~$4.5 million over 5 years.
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August 2005
August 15, 2005
A collaborative research team of BME and CBE faculty -- Professors Charles Roth, Martin Yarmush, Yannis Androulakis and Marianthi Ierapetritou -- was awarded a $1 million grant through the NSF Metabolic Engineering initiative. This grants supports research into genetic and signaling networks that control hepatocyte metabolism in cell-based devices.
July 2005
July 12, 2005
Professor Bernard Coleman has been awarded a 3-year $289,160 grant from the Mathematical Biology program of the NSF. The grant entitled Bifurcation of Equilibria in DNA Elasticity, continues Professor Coleman's work on DNA mechanics.
June 2005
June 27, 2005
Professor Martin Yarmush has received a 5-year $3.4M from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. The funds will support a research program aimed at developing real-time functional genomics cell arrays for studying inflammation and fibrosis.
June 15, 2005
Professor David Shreiber received a 2-year, $25,000 Discovery Award from Johnson & Johnson. The funds will support research to develop microfluidic bioreactors for stem cell differentiation into neurons.
June 6, 2005
Eileen Dawson, Aleksey Demtchouk, Julie Maguire, Jessica Nikitczuk, & Nayerreh Rajaei were selected as the 2005 W.L. Gore ISURF Scholars. This award, established by the NSF IGERT program and W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., provides support to promising undergraduate researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Honors Academy to pursue research in the area of integratively engineered biointerfaces.
June 5, 2005
Professor Eileen Kowler,leading a team of Rutgers faculty from 4 different graduate programs, has been awarded an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship grant from the NSF. This 5 year award will support graduate fellowships in a new training program �Perceptual Science and Imaging� which provides training in new perceptual technologies which are applicable to humans and implemented in machines. BME facultyDimitris Metaxas and Thomas Papathomas also serve as co-PIs on the award.
June 4, 2005
National Public Radio featured an article published in the journal Neuron co-authored by Professor Thomas Papathomas on their Morning Edition Saturday radio program. The results of Papathomas� work, which are detailed in the paper (Neuron, 46: 723-729, 2005), open a new perspective in the research on visual attention and provide testable predictions about the neural mechanisms of implicit attentional selection.
June 3, 2005
The BME industrial internship program, under the direction of June Yarmush, was a great success this acadmeic semester. More then 50 graduate and undergraduate students were paired with industrial partners, in companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Chromocell, and Celgene, as well as a host of others located in the Cure Corridor of New Jersey. Additional information on the program can be found here.
June 2, 2005
Prof. Adrian Mann has received $35,000 award from the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society. The grant funds will support Prof. Mannin an ongoing investigation into the effects of organic fluids on the mechanics of nanoasperity contacts. The research aims to provide insight into the role of bio-lubricants, like hyaluronic acid, in reducing friction and wear between contacting surfaces.