biomedical engineering
August 28, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.” The invention relates to a novel…
August 18, 2015
Researchers at ӰƵ have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases much smaller than current agents. “Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or…
August 07, 2015
As a high school student in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in the 1990s, Anant Madabhushi competed against thousands of students for a spot in the country’s premier medical and engineering schools. Then, his uncle, an engineer with General Electric in the United States, sent him a book on biomedical…
August 05, 2015
The recent acquisition of CardioInsight Technologies Inc., a privately held, Cleveland-based medical device company, will advance electrocardiographic mapping technology initially researched and developed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at ӰƵ’s Case School…
August 03, 2015
A faculty-student team from ӰƵ is participating in a state-funded effort to accelerate the commercialization of university research designed to serve as an economic development tool for new businesses and jobs. Called I-Corps@Ohio, the program is modeled after a…
June 17, 2015
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at ӰƵ, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional…
May 21, 2015
A ӰƵ researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai…
May 20, 2015
Only university awarded in national competition Brian Grimberg, lead researcher and assistant professor of international health While the industrialized world has been free of malaria for 50 years, the disease remains a major humanitarian issue that affects the health and quality of life of…
May 15, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a $387,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop image-based methods to predict aggression in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor of breast cancer. Madabhushi is the director of the Center for…
May 12, 2015
Among the thick white binders that line a bottom shelf in Colin Drummond’s office is one filled with current events—news articles the biomedical engineering professor uses to pepper his courses with context to draw real life from theory. There’s The Wall Street Journal feature on how a promising…