BME graduate students Eric Novik and Nicole Iverson were recently awarded NIH Biotechnology Tranining Grant fellowships. Novik, under the the direction of ProfessorYarmush, focuses on the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into hepatocytes.Iverson, under the direction of Professor Prabhas Moghe, focuses on the attachment of nanoparticles to endothelial surfaces inflamed by LDL.
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June 2005
May 2005
May 27, 2005
Margaret Julias has been awarded a 2-year, $60,000 graduate fellowship from the New Jersey Comission on Spinal Cord Research for her project, entitled: A Novel Micromechanical Method for Controlling Microstructure in Nerve Grafts. Julias is advised by Profs. Helen Buettner and David Shreiber.
May 20, 2005
Dr. Scott Rakestraw, who serves on the BME Industrial Advisory Board, served as the commencement speaker for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois (Urbana). Dr. Rakestraw is currently the president of the Branta Group which services global life science and health care investment companies, and is an alumnus of UIUC.
May 19, 2005
Professor Sobin Kim received a 1-year $20,000 research grant from the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences. The award will support studies on high throughput identification of cytochrome P-450 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Dr. Kim is collaborating with Dr. Jun-Yan Hong, a professor at the School of Public Health and the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at UMDNJ.
May 18, 2005
Ashley Winter, Patrik Leung, and David Wayman, all BME Honors Academy members, were awarded Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellowships (RURF) for their respective projects: 1) "Molecular Engineering Approaches for Identifying Liver Precursor Cells"; 2) "Charactaerization and Long-Term Propagation of Embryonic Stem Cells"; 3) "Gene Regulation of Hepatocytes". Winter and Leung are supervised by Professors Yarmushand Schloss and Wayman is supervised by Professor Roth
April 2005
April 20, 2005
A 2-year $100,000 NSF Grant entitled �Transactions between Granular Flow and Solidification: Merging Multiphase Transport with Statistical Mechanics� was awarded to Professor Troy Shinbrot. In these studies Professor Shinbrot aims to focus on the interface between solid-like and fluid-like coexisting regions with the ultimate goal of producing an experimentally validated, quantitative, first principles model that spans the solidified-fluidized interface of granular beds.
April 18, 2005
A feature article in the April 18 issue of Chemical and Engineering News (p. 47) highlights the work of Professor Kathryn Uhrich in developing polymerization technology that enables a drug to be its own biodegradable delivery vehicle. The article also describes collaborative work with Professor Robert Harten on the effect of PolyAspirin on healing bone defects.
April 10, 2005
Michael Desiderio, a BME senior, won the Second Place Award for his presentation on: Optical Assessment of Apparent Phase Velocities at the 31st Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference held at Stevens Institute on April 3rd 2005. In his project,Michael explored frequency characteristics of pulse wave velocities for vascular diagnosis under the direction of Professor John K-J Li.
March 2005
March 17, 2005
The NIH supported Biotechnology Training Program, directed by Professor Henrik Pedersen, has been renewed for its fourth five-year cycle. The $1.25 million grant provides stipend and tuition for 7 fellows and is matched by institutional sources. BME faculty participating include Professors Helen Buettner, William Craelius, Prabhas Moghe, Charles Roth, David Shreiber, and Martin Yarmush.
March 10, 2005
Professor Noshir Langrana, together with Drs. Rene Schloss and Bernard Yorke have been awarded a 2-year, $225,687 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Their research program is entitled "DNA Cross-Linked Gels: New Advanced Biomaterials".