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The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure
A BU-led team is engineering small patches of cardiac muscle that could repair the heart, treat heart disease, and speed drug development By David Levin for... More
Biotech Developing “Tissue Therapeutics” to Treat Diseased Organs Launches from BU and MIT Labs
Greater Boston has become the nation’s biotech hub—the Silicon Valley of life sciences, according to some—and Massachusetts is now reportedly home to more than 1,000 biotech companies, employing more than 80,000 people. One of the newest multimillion-dollar firms helping to drive the boom has its roots in a Boston University lab. Satellite Bio—fueled by technology codeveloped by BU biomedical engineer Christopher Chen—launched in April after announcing it had secured $110 million in venture funding. More
Distinguished Alumna Delivers DeLisi Lecture
Returning to her alma mater and paying tribute to former mentors, Zhiping Weng (’97) shared insights from the first and largest international effort to characterize... More
New Miniature Heart Could Help Speed Heart Disease Cures
Boston University–led team has engineered a tiny living heart chamber replica to more accurately mimic the real organ and provide a sandbox for testing new... More
BU Bestows Top Honor on Grinstaff
BU President Robert Brown has announced the appointment of College of Engineering Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED), along with Gary Lawson of the... More
Xin Zhang a Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) has been awarded a highly prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, in recognition of her exceptional record of research in the... More
BME Senior Design Projects Conference – May 6
BME seniors apply their undergraduate training to real world biomedical challenges. [...] More
Four Named Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering
Four College of Engineering faculty who are forging new paths in neuroscience, systems engineering, photonics and materials sciences have been named Term Distinguished Professors of... More
A Simple Test for Viral Detection
Nature Biomedical Engineering has published Assistant Prof. Alex Green’s development of a new test that uses strands of RNA to return a test result. [...] More
Zhiping Weng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Zhiping Weng (’97) is the recipient of the 2022 Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and assistant professors Roberto Tron (ME) and Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) have earned this year’s Early Career Research Excellence Awards. More