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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

Sparking Tomorrow’s Kidney Tech
With an NIH R25 grant, Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) and colleagues are introducing engineering students to challenges in kidney medicine, and training them to tackle those challenges with technology. Wong’s co–principal investigators on the grant are MED nephrology professors Sushrut Waikar and Vipul Chitalia. More

Green Garners Award to Develop Cell-Signal Sensor
Assistant Professor Alexander Green (BME) and a colleague at Yale University have earned a Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award to develop a new type of sensor... More

Trio Tapped to Join AIMBE College of Fellows
Prestigious honor for top biomedical engineers For the second year in a row, three ENG faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of... More