Congratulations to College of Engineering Assistant Professor in BME and CMTM faculty and Hadi Nia on earning a coveted Sloan Research Fellowship! In announcing the awards, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation declared that recipients show the “potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” Selected by committees of distinguished scientists, winners each receive $75,000 to be […]
Congratulations to CMTM Trainees Rohin Banerji, Gabby Grifno, Linzheng Shi, Dylan Smolen, Rob LeBourdais, Johnathan Muhvich, Cate Eberman, Kathryn Regan, Siyi Zhang, and Riley Pihl for winning Student Paper of the Year at Boston University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering student awards ceremony. Their paper, “Crystal Ribcage: a platform probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution,” […]
Please join us in congratulating CMTM trainee Gabby Grifno in receiving the prestigious Best Presentation award at the 2023 QBP/TRB/SB2 Graduate Research Symposium for her talk entitled “Probing Real-Time Aerosol Deposition at the Single Droplet Level in Functional Alveoli.” Gabby is a PhD student the Nia Lab, which conducts research at the interface of physical […]
Congratulations to our FY24 CMTM Student Seed Grant Award winners! Each of the following novel research projects has been granted up to $5,000 to support innovative research in the field of mechanobiology: Mechanical properties of human lung collagen fibers: implications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Student PI: Yuqing (Celeste) Deng Faculty Labs: Bela Suki and […]
Boston University has been awarded almost $3 million in funding from The National Science Foundation to create and facilitate a first-of-its-kind graduate training program on feedback in biological control. The program, “A Convergent Training Program in Biological Control,” is co-directed by College of Engineering Dean ad interim Elise Morgan (ME, MSE, BME) and Associate Professor […]
All members of the CMTM community are invited to our annual Holiday Party on Thursday, December 7th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House on the Charles River Campus. Please RSVP no later than Monday, December 4th so we have enough provisions!
Come join us Tuesday, November 14th from 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. in ERB 203 (44 Cummington Mall) to learn about BU’s newest graduate training program, “Biological Feedback Control.” Funded by the National Science Foundation, this exciting new program will form an interdisciplinary community of students and faculty that combines the study of the engineering principles […]
Winners of 2023 interdisciplinary research fund grants aim to improve study of lung disease and brain development When infection or disease strikes the lung—cancer, pneumonia, COVID-19—it’s tough for researchers to see what’s going on inside the organ. Even if they simulate in a lab the disease in a lung, they can’t recreate the forces the […]
Nation’s first training program for biological control workforce wins NSF grant By Patrick L. Kennedy With a competitive National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award, Boston University is positioning itself to become a major hub not only in the emerging research field of biological feedback control, but also in the training of tomorrow’s engineering biology […]
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for The Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology’s 4th Annual Symposium,Cell-Matrix Conversations, being held on Friday, October 20th from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the Boston University campus. The Keynote Addresses will be by Dr. Boris Hinz, the Keenan Research Chair in Fibrosis Research at […]