Department of Biomedical Engineering

Gallego-Perez earns NIH ‘high risk, high rewards’ research grant

Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Daniel Gallego-Perez has won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. The NIH announced 89 research grants from its High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program today. The program... | LEARN MORE

Duarte-Sanmiguel selected as a finalist for innovative research in Tumor Biology

Silvia Duarte San Miguel is a selected finalist for the MilliporeSigma Life Science Award for Tumor Biology for her project titled “Nanotechnology-based approaches towards elucidating and modulating the immunology of the tumor niche .” Her work... | LEARN MORE

Ahmad awarded $409K NIH R21 grant

Dr. Rizwan Ahmad , assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME), has been awarded a 2-year, $409K, National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant for his study titled “Prospective Slice Tracking for Cardiac MRI.” The projects runs from August 15, 2018 – May 31, 2020. | LEARN MORE

Hansford awarded $160k grant from NSF

Dr. Derek Hansford , associate professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an optical up-conversion device using nonlinear electrooptical polymer microfabrication. The... | LEARN MORE

Nocera awarded $200k grant from NSF

Tanya Nocera , assistant professor of practice, biomedical engineering (BME) is principal investigator (PI) on a newly funded $200k project by the National Science Foundation (NSF) - Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF). David Delaine... | LEARN MORE

Walsh selected for the T32 Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Fellowship

Kevin J. Walsh, a graduate student in the Biophysics Program, was recently selected for the predoctoral fellowship by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) committee. This fellowship is awarded to... | LEARN MORE

Professor Alevriadou receives a $1.8M grant from the National Institutes of Health

Dr. B. Rita Alevriadou , Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant titled “Control of Endothelial Mechanotransduction by the Mitochondrial... | LEARN MORE

Nehal Patel awarded a T32 Cardiac Predoctoral Fellowship by the National Institutes of Health

Nehal Patel, a current graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cardiac Predoc T32 Admissions and Internal Advisory Committees as a T32 Trainee for the upcoming year. | LEARN MORE