BME News

March 30, 2023

Brad Duerstock elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted BME Professor of Practice, Brad Duerstock, to their 2023 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows. This honor is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field of medical and biological engineering. The AIMBE College of Fellows consists of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers who have made outstanding contributions to the field.
March 6, 2023

Vlachos, IU cardiologist collaborate to offer innovative tool and fresh hope for babies with heart defects

Novel tools developed by Pavlos Vlachos, St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering and Weldon School Professor of Biomedical Engineering (courtesy), and Mark Payne in their Purdue-IU partnership will make cardiography more valuable in providing critical information to help surgeons determine the exact surgical strategies to use to make the right ventricle more efficient and capable of sustaining life.
February 13, 2023

Purdue Ag-Celerator fund invests $100,000 in pathogen detection company

OmniVis, which focuses on the speed, accuracy and economics of pathogen detection, has received $100,000 from the Purdue Ag-Celerator, an agriculture innovation fund.

OmniVis makes iSpyDx hand-held devices that rapidly detect pathogens in food, agriculture and water samples. The devices perform to laboratory method standards but do not require special equipment or training.
February 6, 2023

Raman selected as next dean of College of Engineering

Starting April 1, Arvind Raman will become the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. He's currently Purdue's executive associate dean of engineering and the Robert V. Adams Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
January 13, 2023

AHA Awards Purdue BME with Undergraduate Summer Program Grant

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.
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