OmniVis, a Purdue University-affiliated biotechnology company focused on the speed, accuracy and economics of pathogen detection, has been named to the fifth annual Most Fundable Companies list from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School.

The American Heart Association selected Purdue University's proposal for their “Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training” program. This creates a new three year summer program called "Cardiovascular Disease and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue/Indiana University" which will leverage Purdue’s existing Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program to nationally recruit diverse undergraduate students for participation in cardiovascular and stroke-related research projects in an interdisciplinary context. The $165K award will fund five summer researchers annually, including attending a research conference to present their work.

The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is delighted to announce Professor Joseph Paul Robinson as its latest Honorary Fellow. Robinson, known as Paul and even ‘JPR’, has made a huge contribution worldwide to the field of Cytometry. This includes his list-serv ‘Purdue Cytometry List’ which is utilized by over 4,500 cytometrists, his work to teach Cytometry in Africa through his Cytometry for Life organization, and his patented Cytometry technologies.

Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its earliest stages thanks to a startup that will commercialize smart contact lenses developed at Purdue University.

Aanis Ahmad, Bradley Fitzgerald, Andrew Fix and Emilee Madsen are the 2023 selections.

Two College of Engineering faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced on Dec. 8.

Young Kim, professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, developed a quick response (QR) code on an edible silk tag that whiskey makers can put in their bottles so consumers can use a smartphone app to confirm authenticity.

Five Purdue Engineering faculty earned designations on Clarivate’s 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers.

Brad Duerstock, a professor of practice in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering, leverages his own experiences as a wheelchair user in his research on improving accessibility to transportation.

Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is developing the testing method using research by Sulma Mohammed, professor of comparative pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.