Dr. Klapperich Promoted to Full Professor
The College announced Dr. Klapperich’s promotion this week. Check out the 21 new Full Professors at Charles River Campus!
Author: Catherine M Klapperich
Wong LAM Paper Published in Analytical Chemistry
See an article about our article at http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/12/Improving-Disease-Detection-Little-Heat.html Evaporative Concentration on a Paper-Based Device to Concentrate Analytes in a Biological Fluid Sharon Y. Wong †, Mario Cabodi †‡, Jason Rolland§, and Catherine M. Klapperich *† † Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Mall, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States ‡ Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology, Boston University, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States […]
Join us at the CFTCC Hackathon!
Food, fun and engineering http://www.bu.edu/cftcc/category/cftcc-events/ Let’s not let MIT win a second year in a row! October 3-4, 2014. EPIC Center on the BU Campus.
Paper-based Molecular Diagnostic for Chlamydia trachomatis published in RSC Advances
Advance proofs available! Congrats to Dr. Linnes! Herein we show the development of a minimally instrumented paper-based molecular diagnostic for point of care detection of sexually transmitted infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. This new diagnostic platform incorporates cell lysis, isothermal nucleic acid amplification, and lateral flow visual detection using only a pressure source and heat […]
Open Source Global Health Textbook Now Available!
Important text on Global Health Education now available open source! From CUGH: 2nd Edition of Developing Global Health Programming By Jessica Evert, Paul Drain, and Thomas Hall The 2nd edition of Global Health Programming: A Guidebook by Medical and Professional Schools by Jessica Evert, Paul Drain, and Thomas Hall can be viewed in its entirety […]
Building the Test Kitchen for Medical Diagnostics
Check out the article about the lab on BU Today. http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/building-the-test-kitchen-for-medical-diagnostics/
Undergraduate Team Wins College Societal Impact Award
Yash Adhikari, Angela Lai, Timothy Mon and Leslie Kimball Nordstrom have won the COE Societal Impact Award for Undergraduate Capstone Project in 2014! “An Integrated Microfluidic Device for Diagnosing Neisseria gonorrhea”
Jason Keller Passes PhD Defense!
Congratulations, Dr. Keller! Title: “A Microfluidic Platform for Quantitative Analysis of Single Mycobacteria Cells” Committee: James Galagan (Advisor) Catherine Klapperich (Advisor) Ahmad S. Khalil (Chair) Mario Cabodi Daniel Segrè Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is the leading bacterial cause of death worldwide. A significant barrier to global MTB eradication is ‘latent’ […]
Dr. Klapperich Named Inaugural Dorf-Ebner Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE) was selected as the inaugural holder of the Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellow award, which honors a mid-career College of Engineering faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional performance and impact in research, teaching and service to the College, and is on track to become an outstanding senior leader in his or her field. […]
Dr. Klapperich Elected to AIMBE
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has elected four BME faculty members—Professors Jerome Mertz, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham and Sandor Vajda (SE) and Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (MSE)—to the AIMBE College of Fellows. They join more than 1,500 outstanding biomedical engineers in academia, industry and government who have distinguished themselves through significant contributions in research, industrial practice and/or education. See the full story here.