Professor James F. Leary has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to their College of Fellows. Fellows are recognized by AIMBE as persons who have distinguished themselves in the field of medical and biological engineering.

The NIH has awarded a multidisciplinary team at Purdue $7 million over five years to study the use of a nanomotor for potential healthcare applications as one of eight national nanomedicine development centers. Such research could lead to nanomotors being used to package and deliver therapeutic agents to disease-causing cells.

Purdue researchers are applying the same basic technique seismologists use to measure earthquakes for a new medical technology that promises to prevent stress fractures by detecting the formation of tiny cracks in bones.

The Purdue University Board of Trustees, meeting at Purdue Calumet on Friday, September 29, approved the appointment of Kinam Park as Purdue's Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering. The appointment was made based on Park's academic achievements, which have been internationally recognized, and his unique contributions to the university through his scholarship, research, teaching and leadership functions.

Edward Delp, who holds a joint appointment with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected by the Academy of Finland to the Distinguished Professor Programme.

Recent work by Professors Rashid Bashir and Michael Ladisch, and Demir Akin of Weldon BME with fellow researchers Amit K. Gupta (Harvard University), Pradeep R. Nair (Purdue ECE), Steven Broyles (Purdue Biochemistry) and Muhammad A. Alam (Purdue ECE) has appeared in the online proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.