After spending a summer in MATLAB staring at bones, working through matrix math, googling new functions, I submitted my first abstract to a conference—the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS). I turned my summer’s work into a one-page document, securing an invitation to present a poster at this 5-day event in Phoenix, AZ.

A new technique for mapping the forces that clusters of cells exert on their surroundings could be useful for studying everything from tissue development to cancer metastasis.

Jonghwan Lee among 2020 Seed Awardees

Vikas Srivastava among 2020 Salomon Awardees.

Alexia Stylianou ’15 ScM’16 graduated from Brown with an ScB in Biomedical Engineering and an ScM in Mechanical Engineering. She graciously took some time off her busy schedule to answer a few questions about her life after college, career trajectory, and how she landed her first job.

PhD candidate Ben Wilks ‘15 and undergraduate student Braxton Morrison ‘21 recently attended the Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) annual conference in Detroit, Michigan. The conference was attended by over 800 students and professionals in STEM fields and took place November 14-17.

Braden C. Fleming, PhD, will be presented the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Clinical Research Award at the upcoming 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in Orlando, Fla.

Three PhD students, one master's student, and one undergraduate student defended their theses this winter. The graduate degrees will be conferred in February. The undergraduate midyear completion celebration took place on December 7th, and a diploma will be awarded in May. Congratulations to the new graduates!

Brown University Assistant Professor Anita Shukla has been chosen as one of 85 of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers and will take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.

The winners were decided following final presentations at Venture Cafe in Providence earlier this week.

Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken.

The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) held its annual national conference in Honolulu, Oahu from October 31 - November 2 with a record attendance of nearly 5000 people.

Brown’s SWE chapter sent 16 students to the annual Women in Engineering Conference this year. Students represented 7 engineering concentrations and included 5 BME undergraduates. The conference featured workshops, lectures, a career fair, and fun perks like tours of Disneyland California and complimentary massages and manicures.

Sahani Wijesinghe, is a first-year master’s student in the Biomedical Engineering Program. At a young age, she knew she was interested in the medical device sector, so she chose BME as her undergraduate degree because she wanted a field that merged engineering and medicine.

Researchers have used nanotechnology to identify a potentially groundbreaking treatment for an aggressive bone cancer that has proven disappointingly unresponsive to existing therapies, a new study shows.

Two PhD students and one master's student defended their theses this summer. Their degrees will be conferred in October. Congratulations to the new PhDs and ScM!

A Warren Alpert Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital cancer physician collaborates with molecular researcher to study use of nanotechnology to deliver medicine inside cancer cells.

Stopping the spread of cancerous cells has long been a challenge for scientists and doctors, and University researchers may have uncovered a possible solution that could improve cancer treatments.

The newest lab rats aren’t rats. Scientists are growing microscopic human tissues and challenging the need for animal testing.

Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D. '90, the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at MIT, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

The Brown University Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBME) held the first Town Hall meeting on October 3rd, 2019. The meeting opened with welcome remarks from Dr. Kareen Coulombe, Director of Graduate Study and Assistant Professor of Engineering and Medical Science, and was an open forum comprised of graduate students, faculty and staff, intended to encourage open dialogue between students and faculty.