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CWRU researcher to turn plant virus shells against human cancers
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…
Biomedical engineering’s Anant Madabhushi awarded patent on digital pathology based image predictor of disease outcome
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…
High school researchers at CWRU honored in 2016 Intel Science Talent Search
Kavya Ravichandran, a student at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, was honored last month for her work with ӰƵ researchers. She finished third in the innovation category at the 2016 Society for Science and the Public's Intel Science Talent…
Anant Madabushi team awarded patent on image analytics for evaluating cancer treatment response
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent: 9,262,583, titled “Image similarity-based finite element model registration.” U.S. patent 9,262,583 relates to a method and…
Three faculty members named AIMBE Fellows
Three ӰƵ faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for research enriching specific areas of human health. Biomedical engineering professors Eben Alsberg and Cameron McIntyre, and…
New image analytics may offer quick guidance for breast cancer treatment
Faster, cheaper test predicts who needs chemotherapy or just hormonal regimen For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to distinguish reliably between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also…
Ford Distinguished Lecture to be held March 2 with talk on commercializing medical innovation
Note: This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced as soon as more information is available. The ӰƵ community is invited to attend the spring 2016 Ford Distinguished Lecture, featuring Carla Mann Woods, CEO of Mann Healthcare Partners. She will present…
Madabhushi team awarded two patents on carotid plaque characterization, digital pathology
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, has been awarded U.S. patents 9,235,887 (titled “Classification of Biological Tissue by Multi-mode data registration, segmentation, and characterization”) and…
Biomedical engineering’s Anant Madabhushi gives keynote lecture at workshop on health care applications
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture at a workshop in Doha, Qatar, in December. His lecture, titled "Quantitative Data Convergence: Integration of Radiology Pathology Omics Data for Predicting Disease Aggressiveness,” was part of the "Computer Vision for…
Anant Madabhushi, team earn patent for computer-assisted disease prognosis, digital pathology
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,183,350 for his invention titled "Quantitatively characterizing disease morphology with cell orientation entropy.” The invention relates…