Purdue University-affiliated startup OmniVis creates 'lab-in-hand' innovation to help millions of people.

Heart surgery can be traumatic for patients. Having to continuously monitor your status without a doctor when you are back home can be even scarier. Imagine being able to do that with a simple sticker applied to your body.

More than 60 million people in the U.S. suffer from disorders in the gastrointestinal tract that could be cured by electrical stimulation, but scientists don't fully understand the therapy's effects on a critical organ: the stomach.

The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded Purdue University’s Jacqueline Linnes and Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, assistant professors with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and their interdisciplinary team, a $1.14M three-year grant to develop a smartphone-based viral load self-test that can be used by HIV-positive individuals to monitor their health between doctors’ visits.

The Purdue University student chapter of Engineering World Health has designed a dry-heat sterilizer that could make surgeries safer in low-resource settings. The team won the 2018 Engineering World Health Design Competition and will be honored at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting Oct. 17-20 in Atlanta.

Patrick Giolando, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award for his extended abstract entitled, “Modeling of an implantable, bioresorbable drug delivery device.” The award is selected on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.

Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students have won the 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Student Chapter – Outstanding Chapter Industry Award. This award is given to chapters that continually provide their student body with strong industry relations that help with post-graduation decisions.

More than 230 million invasive surgeries are performed worldwide each year – and nearly all of those procedures create additional tissue damage from stitches and staples. Researchers at Purdue University are hoping to significantly decrease that damage with a new surgical adhesive technology.

Neil Armstrong’s voice crackled over the NASA feed almost 50 years ago from the surface of the moon as he proclaimed “… One giant leap for mankind.” It is probably the best-known giant leap in the world, but Purdue’s faculty, students and alumni continue to strive making giant leaps to solve the world’s greatest challenges.