BME Grad Program Rises to #9 in US News Rankings
BU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering has moved up 3 positions to #9 nationally among the top engineering schools for graduate biomedical / bioengineering degrees, according to U.S. News & World Report. Chosen by the department chairs of peer institutions, BU BME’s new position represents an advance in the newly-released 2020 rankings of the country’s best graduate schools.
BU BME’s BOTLab Highlighted in New York Times
Tech article includes BOTLab’s wearable chemotherapy monitoring probe. BME Assistant Professor Darren Roblyer and his researchers have created a wearable probe that can monitor, in real-time, if chemotherapy is working on a breast-cancer patient. Roblyer’s Biomedical Optical Technologies Lab (BOTLab) specializes in developing and using new optical technologies to study cancer. The group utilizes a […]
How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly
Low-quality and counterfeit antibiotics drive drug-resistant infections By Art Jahnke Muhammad Zaman learned at an early age that one did not shop for medicine at the convenient neighborhood pharmacy. In Pakistan, where he grew up, the safer thing to do was walk the extra mile to a pharmacy whose drugs were known to be high […]
BME Professor Irving Bigio receives the 2018 Evans Center IBR Excellent Research Collaborator Award
BME Professor Irving Bigio is being recognized by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, at the BU School of Medicine, for his extensive collaborations, over the years, with a variety of researchers and clinical practitioners at BUMC, fueled by funding from a number of NIH grants and sponsored research agreements with industry. These research […]
Video: CELL-MET, A National Science Foundation Research Center
The NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials – CELL-MET – is designed to stimulate translation of research to practice by facilitating worldwide corporate, clinical, and institutional partnerships. CELL-MET—with Boston University as the lead institution— aims to transform cardiovascular care by combining breakthroughs in nanotechnology and manufacturing with tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, while […]