BME Research

Professor Cheng Awarded $2.4 Million Grant by NIH

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Lewis Awarded Sloan Fellowship

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The award funding will further the biomedical engineer’s research on brain function By Jessica Colarossi Laura Lewis (BME) has been awarded a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards for early-career scientists. Lewis and BU computer scientist Alina Ene are two of 126 fellows chosen this year, and each will receive a […]

Tagged: Alina Ene, biomedical engineering, Boston University, Boston University College of Engineering, brain function, Laura Lewis, Sloan Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship

Wong Lab Develops Smarter Cancer-Killing Cells

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Tagged: Atsushi Okuma, autoimmune diseases, Boston University, Boston University College of Engineering, BU, cancer, CAR-T therapy, chimeric antigen receptor, College of Engineering, distributed computing, ENG, immunotherapies, James J. Collins, Jang Hwan Cho, Katri Sofjan, Nature Communications, Senti Bioscience, Seunghee Lee, SUPRA, synthetic biology, T-cells, Wilson Wong, Wong Lab

Society For Biomaterials Honors Professor Joyce Wong

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Professor Joyce Wong received the prestigious 2020 Clemson Award for Basic Research. The award acknowledges an original and outstanding contribution to the basic knowledge and understanding of the interaction between materials and tissue.

Klapperich, Pal Named AAAS Fellows

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By Patrick L. Kennedy Two College of Engineering faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE, ME) and Professor Uday Pal (ME, MSE) were selected for extraordinary achievements in their fields by the AAAS Council. The nonprofit […]

Tagged: AAAS, aluminum, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston University, Boston University College of Engineering, Catherine Klapperich, cervical cancer, chlamydia, energy storage, global health, gonorrhea, green energy, HPV, human papillomavirus, Materials Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, point-of-care diagnosis, Precision Diagnostics Center, Uday Pal, women's health

Lewis wins a 1907 Trailblazer Award for Research on Sleep and Depression

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As one of only three winners worldwide, Assistant Professor Laura Lewis was selected for the inaugural award for early career research in neuroscience.

Joyce Wong Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

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Whether innovating COVID-19 negative pressure isolation tents for hospitals, devising a way to image and treat abdominal surgical adhesions, or creating a method to enhance tissue engineering, Wong has adopted a mindset of innovation.

Tagged: BU BME, BU MSE, Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow, Joyce Wong, NAI

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Assistant Professor Hadi Nia has published a first-authored review paper in SCIENCE on the physical traits of cancer.