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The Biodesign Bulletin – Feb. 05, 2026
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Speeding the Healing of Wounds in Old Age
Professor Jeroen Eyckmans has received a $2 million grant from the Hevolution Foundation to address the urgent clinical challenge of repairing non-healing skin wounds in the elderly: With an eye toward developing more advanced treatments, many scientists are attempting to better understand the wound healing process and what precisely underlies... More
Early Career Excellence. Professor Rabia Yazicigil Recognized By NSF and BU College of Engineering
Her NSF-award-winning project, entitled “Secure Miniaturized Bio-Electronic Sensors for Real-Time In-Body Monitoring,” focuses on real-time in-body monitoring of inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract. The current standard for monitoring the GI tract relies on invasive endoscopic biopsies or non-real-time stool analysis. She aims to develop “inexpensive and non-invasive miniaturized ingestible... More
This Is Something I Can Do. Diverse high school students get hands-on, real-world lab experience at BU through STEM Pathways
If it were an ordinary summer, teenager Nicolas Rojas Taborda would “probably just be at home,” he said one weekday in July 2023, “or maybe working a part-time job.” Instead, Taborda and ten other Boston-area high school students spent five weeks working full-time in the labs of BME faculty researchers Alex... More
ECE CHIPS In: Miniscule Hardware, Maximum Impact
Expanding the focus on efficient wireless communications beyond the looming concern of capacity crunch, Professor Yazicigil has been particularly noted for her increasing body of collaborative work in interdisciplinary, biomedical-centric projects. Her miniscule, resource-light designs are ideal for medical applications, as exemplified by her ongoing collaboration with researchers from MIT... More
A Saliva Test for Soldiers, Athletes, and Others Aims to Predict Performance
You’re due to run a grueling road race in a few hours. Do you have the stuff to make it across the finish line or will you crash before the end? Or maybe you’ve got a ballet recital or a poker tournament or a big speech More
CISE and BDC Host Event to Connect Faculty with IMEC
Fifteen distinguished Boston University faculty members shared their research at an event jointly hosted by the Center for Information Systems and Engineering (CISE) and the Biological Design Center (BDC) at the Center for Computing and Data Sciences on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. More
Converging on Training Tomorrow’s Bioengineers
With a competitive National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award, Boston University is positioning itself to become a major hub not only in the emerging research field of biological feedback control, but also in the training of tomorrow’s engineering biology workforce. More
Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects
When infection or disease strikes the lung—cancer, pneumonia, COVID-19—it’s tough for researchers to see what’s going on inside the organ. Even if they simulate in a lab the disease in a lung, they can’t recreate the forces the rib cage places on it without blocking their view of what’s happening. More
BU’s First-Ever Biology and Machine Learning Hackathon
Belmont High 11th graders David Luo (left) and Yareh Constant, here working on a machine-learning cancer prediction model that can be used as a fast and accurate preemptive check and second opinion, were among the 50-plus students at BU’s first-ever Biology and Machine Learning Hackathon. More
This Tiny Capsule Can Warn You When Inflammation Is Imminent
A smart pill no bigger than a blueberry can withstand the stomach’s acidic fluids, detect signs of gastrointestinal trouble, and send warning signals to an ordinary smart phone More