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Doctoral student named runner up for young scientist award at medical imaging conference
Prateek Prasanna, a biomedical engineering PhD student, was named runner up for the young scientist award at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), a leading medical imaging conference, for his oral presentation, titled "Co-occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient Orien...
Power of Diversity Lecture Series to continue with presentation on students, service
The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity invites the campus community to a lecture by Andrew M. Rollins, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine and faculty adviser of Engineers Without Borders, titled "Developing Our Students, and the World, Through Service." The presenta...
Scientists wield plant viruses against deadly human disease
ӰƵ researchers hope to take a healthy salad up a level by growing a vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer in leafy greens. “In the long run, one could think about administering the vaccine either by eating the salad or making a pill from the plant tissue,” sai...
Amputees discern familiar sensations across prosthetic hand
System providing sensation for more than two years Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident four years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps. Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs raise when a researche...
Biomedical Engineering’s Anant Madabhushi awarded NIH grant for digital pathology research
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded a R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study predicting aggressive head and neck cancers from digital pathology. His project is titled "His...
Engineering student earns Tau Beta Pi scholarship
Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, awarded Shriya Srinivasan a $2000 scholarship for the 2014-2015 year. Tau Beta Pi Scholarships are awarded to junior members on a competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering ...
Science Café Cleveland to feature discussion on sensory restoration devices
Close your eyes and you can get a sense of the challenges of blindness; a sense of deafness by plugging your ears. However, the most difficult of the five senses to understand the devastating impact of its loss is touch. Dustin Tyler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will discuss the ...
Graduate student Allison Kipling, classmates launch 306 LLC with award money
Allison Kipling, a graduate student in the translational health technology master's program at Case School of Engineering, launched a company to develop a product that started as a class project. She won $10,000 in the Brien Holden Vision Competition in March for her business plan and used the winni...
Researchers awarded Phase II Coulter Grant on brain tumor project
Pallavi Tiwari, research assistant professor, and Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, were awarded a Phase II Coulter award on their project "NeuroRadVisionTM: Image based risk assessment for presence of recurrent tumor or radiation effects on MRI" at the Center for Computational ...
Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma
A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma. In preclinical tests led by a ӰƵ researcher, the artificial platel...