Maximizing Investigators’ Research
An extraordinary milestone for a young lab BME Assistant Professor Samagya Banskota and her lab have been awarded an NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). This funding will support Banskota and her lab’s efforts to develop drug delivery technologies that advance gene editing and expand […]
Growing Liver Tissue on Demand Directly in the Body
BME’s Chris Chen leads a team at the Wyss Institute to combine tissue engineering with synthetic biology, laying the foundation for “smart” solid organ therapies.
A Living Internet of Things
ECE faculty characterize new class of devices, invite participation.
Developing a Life-Saving Option for a Rare Childhood Disorder
As a Hartwell Investigator, Samagya Banskota and her collaborators will leverage a cutting-edge genome editing technique.
Innovative Tissue Engineering: A Pioneering New Method Explained
“This approach allows us to build tissue successfully in many different shapes, using soft materials.”
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.
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. […]
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 capable of detecting heretofore hidden signals within a cell, with potential applications both diagnostic and therapeutic. In the dense chemical machinery of the cell, certain proteins elude detection—proteins, or signals, […]
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 the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This time, the honorees are Professor James Galagan (BME, Microbiology), Associate Professor Xue Han (BME), and Professor Dimitrije Stamenovic (BME, […]
Newly Named Allen Distinguished Investigators Aim to Recreate Lungs
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has awarded funding to a trio of BU faculty for a bold, early-stage project aimed at lab-grown lungs that mimic the real organ in all its fractal complexity. The proposal of Associate Professor Wilson Wong (BME), Professor Christopher Chen (BME, MSE), and School of Medicine Professor Darrell Kotton has […]