BME News

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.

The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center has awarded Purdue University's Young Kim, associate professor with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and Md Munirul Haque, research scientist with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and their interdisciplinary research team, a $385,000, two-year grant to improve mobile testing for anemia in resource-limited settings.

The NSF I-Corps program has selected doctoral student Shruthi Suresh to join other innovative student researchers for one of its fall 2017 cohorts.

Taylor Moehling, a PhD student, has received the Fearnot-Laufman-Greatbatch Award for best summer seminar presentation.

An Indianapolis-based startup believes its device could be groundbreaking in the world of ophthalmology--and life-changing for patients with glaucoma. The disease is the second-leading cause of blindness, but Purdue-affiliated startup Bionode says its noninvasive technology—enveloped in off-the-shelf contact lenses and glasses—reverses the physical cause of glaucoma.

Craig Goergen, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award. The award is given to a young investigator within the first seven years of receiving their terminal degree in recognition of originality and ingenuity demonstrated in published works.

In a potential breakthrough for the treatment of obesity and diabetes, Purdue University scientists have found a way to deliver a drug directly to stored white fat cells to turn them into more easily burned brown fat cells.

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the user's touch - and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand.