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6 BME Students Elected to Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, inducted 27 new members into the Rhode Island Alpha chapter at Brown University in a ceremony held Thursday, Dec. 9. Fifteen juniors were inducted along with 12 seniors.
Coulombe Lab: Drug screening platform helps predict atrial-specific arrhythmia responses
Pharmaceuticals play an important role in treating diseases and alleviating symptoms, but they can also have adverse effects.
Christina Bailey-Hytholt PhD'20 Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 - Science List
Bailey-Hytholt, an incoming assistant professor of chemical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, focuses on an understudied organ key to maternal and child health: the placenta.
Srivastava and Brown Researchers Awarded $6.5M from ONR for the Mechanics of Undersea Vehicles and Platforms Research
Brown Engineering faculty were awarded a combined $6.5 million of grant funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to carry out research in the general area of undersea vehicles and platforms, in collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, R.I.
Eliza Stenlicht '22 selected as 2021 Rhode Island Inno 5 Under 25
They’re ambitious, they’re smart and they’re pretty darn successful. They're also just starting out in their innovation careers. Meet Rhode Island Inno's 2021 5 Under 25.
Lee, Hoffman-Kim, and Morgan awarded five-year, $1.8M grant from National Cancer Institute
Engineering Assistant Professor Jonghwan Lee is developing a new technique for the assessment of chemosensitivity in 3D culture, by maximizing the potential of a label-free 3D microscopy technology, called optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Welcome to our 28 new BME graduate students!
Warmest welcome to our newest BME master’s and PhD students! Their future is so bright the sun showed up unexpectedly at our orientation!
Toussaint invited to National Academy of Sciences Intersections 2021 program
Engineering Senior Associate Dean Kimani Toussaint has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Sciences’ Intersections 2021: Connect, Converge, Collaborate.
Dr. Almeida received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University and her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Professional Writing (double major) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Srivastava Named Howard Reisman Assistant Professor of Engineering
Brown Engineering’s Vikas Srivastava has been named the Howard M. Reisman ’76, P’09 Assistant Professor of Engineering.
Elena Song '23 and other BME undergraduate students participate in 2021 Summer Research Symposium
More than 135 undergraduates gathered virtually on August 5th and 6th to present the results of their research at the annual Summer Research Symposium sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College.
Nathan Brown '21.5: Toward a better, more versatile wheelchair
With the help of a Royce Fellowship from the Swearer Center, Nathan Brown is developing a wheelchair design with the aim of increasing mobility for users on both indoor and outdoor terrain.
Biotech company Amylyx emerges from scientific curiosity of Brown undergrads
Biomedical engineering alumnus Josh Cohen ’14 partnered with Justin Klee ’13 eight years ago to build a company dedicated to the development of therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
Eliza Sternlicht ’22 and MediCircle invest winnings into pilot program
Biomedical engineer Eliza Sternlicht ’22 and applied math and economics concentrator Jack Schaeffer ’22 took top honors at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Brown Venture Prize competition with their redistribution model for unused pharmaceuticals.
Theses Defended - Summer 2021
PhD and Master's students defend their thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.
Wong Selected to Participate in NAE’s Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Brown University Assistant Professor Ian Wong has been chosen as one of 60 of the most promising early career engineers from the United States and Japan to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE) Symposium from June 23-25.
Shukla awarded Grainger Grant from NAE for advancement of interdisciplinary research
Brown University Assistant Professor of Engineering Anita Shukla is the principal investigator of a new Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant of $30,000 to broaden research on microbe-responsive antimicrobial hydrogels.
Srivastava Lab: New model accounts for the effect of behavior changes to predict COVID-19 cases
A new infectious disease model that accounts for people’s ‘level of caution’ or ‘sense of safety’ accurately captures surges and declines in COVID-19 cases since March 2020 — and could help predict how the pandemic will eventually end.
Morgan Lab earns BBII awards for growing human biomaterials for post-heart attack repair
Now in its third funding cycle, Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact will award four faculty projects to accelerate promising medical solutions into commercial technologies.
Borton Lab: New algorithm could help enable next-generation deep brain stimulation devices
Brown University researchers have developed a technique that could allow deep brain stimulation devices to sense activity in the brain and adjust stimulation accordingly.
Wong Lab: Researchers use ‘hole-y’ math and machine learning to study cellular self-assembly
A new study shows that mathematical topology can reveal how human cells organize into complex spatial patterns, helping to categorize them by the formation of branched and clustered structures.
BrainGate Lab: Brain-computer interface creates text on screen by decoding brain signals associated with handwriting
Using a brain-computer interface, a clinical trial participant was able to create text on a computer at a rate of 90 characters per minute just by thinking about the movements involved in writing by hand.
36 Degrees in Biomedical Engineering Were Awarded at Commencement 2021
Anubhav Tripathi recognized as DIAP Community Award Winner
The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, with generous support from the Office of the President, instituted the DIAP Community Awards in 2018.