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BME Senior Design Projects Conference – May 3
BME seniors apply their undergraduate training to real world biomedical challenges. [...] More
Speeding the Healing of Wounds in Old Age
With the support of a new $2 million grant from the Hevolution Foundation, Eyckmans’ team will study impaired wound healing through a synthetic biology framework. More
Ji-Xin Cheng Delivers 2024 DeLisi Lecture
The cutting-edge imaging techniques developed by Cheng have advanced the field and are in use in labs and clinics around the globe. More
Pioneering Pathways
"We need everyone — not just women — to contribute to addressing problems in women’s health." More
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture Rabia Yazicigil earns Early Career Research Excellence Award In recognition of their contributions to engineering and society, the Moustakas Chair... More
University hiring must be centrally organized around convergence
Today there is no disagreement that the considerable challenges facing humanity can only be addressed by bringing together expertise from across the academic disciplines. From decarbonizing economies to harnessing AI for the good of society, solutions will require unprecedented levels of creativity and interconnection of traditionally distinct disciplines – which, following others (mostly in STEM fields), I refer to as “convergence”. More
Why do some vaccines protect some individuals and not others?
Tomic and her team are leveraging a more effective method and significantly reducing the waiting period for new vaccines More
Hadi Nia Earns a Sloan Research Fellowship
Sloan Research Fellows have the “potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” More
FDA Clears Bigio’s Tech for Skin Cancer Detection
Is that an innocent mole or skin cancer? An optical technique pioneered by Irving Bigio could cut the number of missed cancers in half. More
This Is Something I Can Do
Boston-area high school students spend five weeks of the summer working full-time in the labs of BME faculty researchers solving real-world problems. More