biomedical engineering

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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 un...

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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 adjacent...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 eff...

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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 only ...

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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 aggressive ...
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 inv...

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April 18, 2016
A ӰƵ researcher has been awarded more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants to turn common plant viruses into cancer sleuths and search-and-destroy emissaries.
Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will customize tobacco mosaic v...
April 08, 2016
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent: 9,286,672, titled “Integrated, multivariate histologic image-based method for disease outcome prediction.”
U.S. patent 9,286,672...