Kurt Pianka '17, receipient of the 2017 Domenica A. Ionata '26 Award for an unusual degree of creativity and imagination in an independent study project, recently published from of his work from the Tripathi lab.

We are delighted to introduce our latest Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator – Ian Wong! Ian Y. Wong is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering and of Medical Science at Brown University.

The new initiative, supported by a $19 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will focus on monitoring and predicting the impacts of climate variability on Narragansett Bay. Geoff Bothun, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, is the grant’s principal investigator. Jeffrey Morgan, a professor of medicine and engineering at Brown, will serve as one of the grant’s co-principal investigators.

Brown University held Hack Health 2017 at the Warren Alpert Medical School over the weekend, and two projects with roots in the School of Engineering took first and third places among the 17 projects in the competition.

Prof. Trey Crisco recently contributed to three articles evaluating clinical outcomes for thumb and wrist arthritis and a surgical technique to treat thumb injuries:

Many of our research faculty participate in collaborative research across universities and companies.

The temporary structures, which can be degraded away with a biocompatible chemical trigger, could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamically to stimuli and in patterning artificial tissue.

The day before fall semester courses began, our 76 Biomedical Engineering graduate students and 57 Biotechnology graduate students gathered in Alumni Hall for our annual retreat.

Michelle Dawson joined the Brown faculty in July 2016. Before coming to Brown, Dr. Dawson was an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inspired by utero-like biochemical conditions, Kareen Coulombe and PhD student Cassady Rupert investigated the potential of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and neuregulin-1B (NRG1), two growth factors crucial to cardiac development in vivo , to promote the maturation of human embryonic stem cell- (hESC-) derived cardiomyocytes ex vivo.

Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology (CfNN) Director and Professor of Engineering Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D., FAAN, FANA has received a Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development (VA RR&D) Merit Award.

Researchers in the Borton lab have developed a home environment for nonhuman primates using primarily non-conductive materials to overcome hindered wireless data transmission in standard primate housing.

Optogenetics is a technique which allows cell-type specific control of neural activity by light.

J.J. Trey Crisco was recently honored with two awards.

Researchers in the Fleming lab have recently made steps in identifying genes that play a role in early post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).

Ian Wong has been selected as a 2017 Emerging Investigator by Biomaterials Science.

More than 200 undergraduates gathered in Sayles Hall on August 3 and 4 to present the results of their research at the annual Summer Research Symposium sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College. Over 30 of the posters were from undergraduate researchers from the School of Engineering or were conducted under the guidance of engineering faculty members.

Arto V. Nurmikko, a native of Finland, received his Bachelor of Science and doctoral degrees from University of California, Berkeley, and did postdoctoral work at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.