BME Assistant Professor Allison Dennis Featured in BU Research
BME Assistant Professor Allison Dennis and her lab’s research has been featured in a recent article in BU Research. Click here to find the full publication.
NIH Director Touts Research by BME Professor
Creative Minds: Rapid Testing for Antibiotic Resistance By Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH | Originally posted on NIH Director’s Blog The term “freeze-dried” may bring to mind those handy MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) consumed by legions of soldiers, astronauts, and outdoor adventurers. But if one young innovator has his way, a test that features freeze-dried […]
BME Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil Featured in New BU Research Article
An article about one of BME’s most astounding faculty members has been published in BU Research! You can find the article by clicking HERE.
Wong Lab’s Biocomputation Platform in Mammalian Cells is Published in Nature Biotechnology
News coverage on the article “Large-scale design of robust genetic circuits with multiple inputs and outputs for mammalian cells” in Nature Biotechnology: WIRED article on “Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer” Science article on “Scientists turn mammalian cells into complex biocomputers”
BME/MSE Professor and Graduate Student Published in PLOS Computational Biology
BME graduate student Jarred Mondonedo and BME/MSE Professor Bela Suki have been published in PLOS Computational Biology, which is an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology. Their paper can be located here. The research has also received large amounts of media coverage, which can be viewed via the following links: PLOS Computational […]
Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?
Computer model may lead to more personalized, optimized treatment By Barbara Moran, BU Research Emphysema is a long-term and devastating lung disease. As it progresses, the body’s own inflammatory enzymes slowly digest and destroy alveoli, the delicate sacs where oxygen from air is transferred to the bloodstream. The damaged alveoli form large holes in lung […]
Khalil Receives Presidential Early Career Award
By Sara Cody Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil (BME) is among 102 scientists and researchers honored as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. […]
ENG Key Partner in Newly Announced $80 Million Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing USA Institute
The College of Engineering has been selected as a key partner in a major, federally supported initiative aimed at creating a new industry that may one day manufacture living tissue and organs at scale for rapid delivery to patients. The US Department of Defense has funded a nation-wide consortium of government, academia and industry, known […]
Study Supports Final Pivotal Trial of Bionic Pancreas
Damiano Nets $12M in Supplemental NIH Funding to Move Forward with Trial By Sara Cody On the heels of winning $12 million in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a major, multi-center, national clinical trial of his iLetTM bionic pancreas, Professor Edward Damiano (BME) has co-authored a study in The […]