biomedical engineering
October 19, 2016
A team of biomedical engineers at ӰƵ is among seven of 23 research teams from the 2016 I-Corps@Ohio program selected to present to potential investors at the upcoming Ohio Collegiate Venture Showcase. The team will present its new technology in brain tumor treatment…
October 03, 2016
ӰƵ-led research could speed identification of recurrent tumors, eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at ӰƵ has outperformed physicians on a more…
September 27, 2016
What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at ӰƵ hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The…
September 09, 2016
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), and his team were issued three patents in digital pathology and precision medicine. U.S. patent 9,424,460 titled "Tumor plus…
August 10, 2016
Jon Whitney, a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics in Case School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named by ӰƵ as a 2015 Hartwell Foundation Fellow. He was recognized for his…
August 02, 2016
Changes in benign tissues next to prostate tumors may provide an early warning for patients at higher risk for biochemical recurrence after a radical prostatectomy, a study by researchers at ӰƵ and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions shows. Biochemical recurrence, which…
July 26, 2016
Phenanthriplatin outperformed cisplatin in mouse model of triple-negative breast cancer when encapsulated into nanocarrier In a pair of firsts, researchers at ӰƵ and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that the drug candidate phenanthriplatin can be more…
July 18, 2016
National Cancer Institute awards $3.3 million to develop digital image analytics Researchers from ӰƵ are teaming with industry and other academics to develop a quick and inexpensive test to predict which women with ER+ breast cancer need chemotherapy and which need…
June 27, 2016
Risk score would determine who would benefit from chemoradiation alone Researchers estimate that, in the United States annually, up to 10,000 rectal cancer patients undergo unnecessary surgery, and more than 25,000 suffer from pelvic sepsis, wound infection and permanent impairments from…
May 06, 2016
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent 9,292,933, titled “Method and apparatus for shape based deformable segmentation of multiple overlapping objects.” The present…