Professor Prabhas Moghe was awarded a three year $300 K grant from the Bioengineering Division of the NSF for his project entitled "Nanoscale Engineering of LDL-Retentive Substrates". The study proposes the synthesis and design of nanoscale substrates with high binding affinities for low density lipoproteins for use in the treatment of atherosclerosis. Collaborators include Rutgers Professors Kathryn Uhrich (Chemistry),Silvina Tomassone (Chemical Engineering), and Yicheng Lu (Electrical and Computer Engineering).
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August 2002
July 2002
July 17, 2002
Professor Martin Yarmush received a 5-year NIH renewal grant for $2M for continuing research on developing a bioartificial liver device. The research program includes the use of stem cells and other novel cellular systems as sources for liver cells and innovative bioreactor designs based on microfabrication techniques.
July 12, 2002
Professors Dinos Mavroides and Martin Yarmush received a 1 year NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research for their collaborative work on nanorobotic systems.
June 2002
June 20, 2002
Rutgers Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected by the Whitaker Foundation to receive two substantial awards. The first is a $5 million Special Award to help the department build excellence in biomedical engineering through new state-of-the-art facilities and new faculty hires. The second is an Industrial Internships Program Award which will provide $180,000 over a three year period to support internships in the dynamic NJ pharmaceutical and medical technology industries.
June 12, 2002
Professor Thomas Papathomas received a 3-year NIH Award ($466,500) entitled "The Role of Object-Based Attention in Motion Perception". The major goals of the project are to study the interaction between attention and motion processing that enables the visual system to efficiently integrate, segment, and maintain a unified percept of moving surfaces.
May 2002
May 30, 2002
BME junior, Biju Parekkadan, was awarded a Supplemental Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. He will be working at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute with Dr. Jay Knutson in the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, Optical Spectroscopy Section.
May 24, 2002
Professor Bernard Coleman was awarded a three year NSF Grant for his project entitled "Contact Problems in Kirchhoff's Nonlinear Theory of Rods". The work proposed involves analysis of DNA micromechanics and has implications for DNA nanodevices that are chemomechanically responsive.
May 9, 2002
Kevin Nikitczuk, a sophomore in BME, received a summer fellowship from the NASA Space Grant Consortium. The fellowship consists of $5,000 for a 10 week research project on "Protein Based Nanorobotic Systems". Kevin is advised by Professors Dinos Mavroidisand Martin Yarmush.
May 1, 2002
Professor George Shoane and Jani M. Pallis will be co-editing a new book entitled "Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports" to be published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. The book will cover comprehensively all major sports, and chapters will be introduced with comments by the finest athletes in the world.
April 2002
April 23, 2002
Professor Charles Roth was awarded a one year Whitaker Foundation award for his project entitled "Effect of DNA Structure on Polymer-DNA Complex Formation and Delivery". Professor Roth's work is pioneering new inroads into the antisense delivery field.