BME News

Under a $2.2 million R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), Taeyoon Kim, an assistant professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, and his collaborators will study how structural elements within cells generate mechanical forces. The researchers will also illuminate how these biomechanical forces are translated to affect the extracellular matrix (ECM) that surrounds the cells, and to nearby cells as well.

Associate head of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Pedro Irazoqui's digital healthcare startup Qura Inc. signs a licensing agreement with the Purdue Research Foundation and a development agreement with Helbling Technique in order to advance its wireless implantable pressure sensor technology, including Qura's implantable ‘Q-Smart’ sensor and data analytics system designed to monitor glaucoma.

Sarah Calve, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is the first Purdue University faculty member to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. Her research involves characterizing how tissues assemble during development, with the goal of understanding the best way to regenerate missing or damaged musculoskeletal tissue.

IEEE Spectrum: Global health experts don’t worry about if a major infectious disease outbreak will occur; it’s just a matter of when. Purdue researchers are developing smartphone-enabled point-of-care disease detection platform to detect infectious agents in the environment before an outbreak begins.

Jacqueline Linnes, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is developing a smart watch that monitors a person's health in real time. The device tracks physiological measurements, detects overdoses, and is connected to a smart phone that could call for help.

Gurneet Sangha, a fourth-year doctoral student at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has received a Baxter Young Investigator Award. The award honors researchers who are focused on developing critical care therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives. Sangha is advised by Assistant Professor Craig Goergen.

PURSPEC Technologies Inc., whose miniature spectrometers may improve medical diagnosis and patient compliance by reducing the time needed to analyze samples, has opened offices in the Purdue Research Park. PURSPEC also has locations in Beijing and Shanghai.

Four students from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have taken on the challenge of trying to save lives in Ecuador and other countries with their Low-cost Accessible AutoCPR device. The group won the 2017 Engineering World Health Design Competition and will be honored at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society meeting Oct. 11-14 in Phoenix.

More than 2,000 college students from 30 universities around the world will collaborate on a medical design hackathon as part of the Sept. 22-23 Design Good Now conference.

Researchers at Purdue University are creating a device that they hope will help identify risk factors that cause breast cancer.