For the first time, researchers have recorded electrical signals from the brains of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder over a prolonged period of time, allowing them to capture the brain activity of patients with daily OCD symptom fluctuations.

Tejal Desai, a professor and researcher who has led academic programs at the University of California San Francisco, Boston University and elsewhere, will work to expand collaborative engineering research and teaching.

Three students defend their PhD thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.

Brown engineering professor Kimani Toussaint has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

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.

Pharmaceuticals play an important role in treating diseases and alleviating symptoms, but they can also have adverse effects.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Warmest welcome to our newest BME master’s and PhD students! Their future is so bright the sun showed up unexpectedly at our orientation!

Engineering Senior Associate Dean Kimani Toussaint has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Sciences’ Intersections 2021: Connect, Converge, Collaborate.

Brown Engineering’s Vikas Srivastava has been named the Howard M. Reisman ’76, P’09 Assistant Professor of Engineering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PhD and Master's students defend their thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.

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.

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.

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.

Now in its third funding cycle, Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact will award four faculty projects to accelerate promising medical solutions into commercial technologies.