Bioengineering News

BIOE Senior, Meagan Musselman co-authors article featured in Cell

Jenny Amos, Sheng Zhong — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 CST

Through working in the stem cell engineering lab of Assoc Prof Sheng Zhong, Meagan Musselman co-authored an article in press by the journal of Cell. Her paper is titled "Comparative epigenomic annotation of regulatory DNA". Meagan was funded through the Society of Women Engineers' CH2M Hill Scholarship Award.

Congratulations to Samantha Polak for Top Presentation Award at MRS (click for more)

Jenny Amos — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 CST

The Materials Research Society (MRS) conference has awarded Samantha Polak the top stuudent presentation award for her talk in the symposium segment: Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration. Sam's talk was titled, "The Influence of CaP on Bone Formation and Vascularization", and in it she discussed in vivo and in vitro work with hydroxyapatite bone scaffolds in the lab of Amy Wagoner Johnson.

Bioengineering professor Bashir and others create a "microvascular stamp"

Diana Yates — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 CST

Bioengineering Professor Rashid Bashir and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Hyunjoon Kong have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. The bandage, called a microvascular stamp, contains living cells that deliver growth factors to damaged tissues in a defined pattern. After a week, the pattern of the stamp is written in blood vessels, the researchers report.

Bioengineering Professor Bashir elected fellow of AAAS

Greta Weiderman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:00:00 CST

Rashid Bashir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering, along with seven other University of Illinois faculty members, has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was honored for distinguished contributions to the field of BioMEMS and biomedical nanotechnology, particularly development of miniaturized sensors for medical and biological applications.

Lecturer Amos receives Alpha Omega Epsilon Amy L. Devine Award

Greta Weiderman — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:00:00 CST

Alpha Omega Epsilon, a professional and social engineering sorority, has presented Bioengineering Lecturer Jenny Amos with the Amy L. Devine Recognition Award for Fall 2011. The award is named after the sororitys founding president and is given to someone the sorority believes has contributed to the university, engineering students or the engineering profession as much as our founding president has.

Genome Technology magazine features Assistant Professor Ma

Greta Weiderman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:00:00 CST

Genome Technology will feature Bioengineering Assistant Professor Jian Ma as one of Tomorrow's PIs in the December 2011/January 2112 issue.

Two Bioengineering professors named IEEE Fellows

Greta Weiderman — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:00 CST

Bioengineering Professor Brian Cunningham and Professor and Department Head Michael Insana have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Cunningham is being recognized for contributions to photonics crystal-based biosensors and detection instrumentation, and Insana is being recognized for contributions to ultrasound imaging methods, particularly elastography.

Senior Design students partner with U of I College of Medicine at Peoria to create simulators

Greta Weiderman — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:00:00 CST

Bioengineering seniors are creating simulators that physicians will eventually use to perfect their skills. The finished mannequin-like objects will allow family practice and emergency medicine physicians to practice a procedure to diagnose gout and will allow surgeons to simulate repairing multi-level skin lacerations. But the whole process gives students an idea of what working in industry is like.

Assistant Professor Myong receives $720,000 grant to study DNA repair

Greta Weiderman — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:00:00 CST

The American Cancer Society has awarded Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sua Myong a $720,000 grant to study the molecular mechanism involved in DNA repair and its control. The results may be applied to developing anticancer or cancer-prevention treatments.

Bioengineering seniors advance to regional I2P competition

Greta Weiderman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:00:00 CDT

A group of bioengineering seniors are winners of the University of Illinois I2P Idea to Product Competition, which examines ideas at their earliest stage. Jon Yu, Brittany Weida, Ruth Osbrink and Meagan Musselman presented their idea at the competition in late October. They are designing a knee brace that will assist patients in certain movements, and they will present their concept at the regional competition in Saint Louis in February.