Yeo, who is associate professor of industrial and physical pharmacy and associate professor of biomedical engineering, devotes herself to finding new drug delivery systems and teaching students to do the same. She is involved in ongoing research that could help improve therapies for devastating diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis.

Babak Ziaie and collaborator Shirley Rietdyk received funds from the Trask Innovation Fund to advance "SmartGait: A Device to Assess Gait Parameters and Predict Falls." The technology modifies a smartphone to measure a person's walking gait to help prevent falls in those with compromised balance, such as the elderly or people with Parkinson's disease.

Symic Biomedical has secured $15 million in Series A financing. This financing will support the company's ongoing development of its novel therapeutics and advancement of its two lead programs into clinical trials.

Researchers at Purdue find that lacrosse helmet models fail safety standards. Two lacrosse helmets are decertified by a safety organization, as reported in the New York Times, raising concerns about the sport.

A neurotoxin called acrolein found in tobacco smoke that is thought to increase pain in people with spinal cord injury has now been shown to accumulate in mice exposed to the equivalent of 12 cigarettes daily over a short time period.

Alyssa Panitch, the Leslie A. Geddes Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named vice provost for faculty affairs, effective Jan. 1.

Jessica E. Huber, a professor in Purdue University's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, is the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty.
The award is given annually to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding contributions to, and success with, commercializing Purdue research discoveries.

Purdue Research Foundation honored 15 Weldon School faculty members members at its tenth annual Inventors Recognition Reception in the Herman and Heddy Kurz Purdue Technology Center at Purdue Research Park.

A Purdue University researcher's new book explores the spectrum of imaging techniques used for noninvasive visualization of the morphology and mechanics of the large and small--from organs to individual macromolecules.

Officials at a life sciences startup based on a Purdue University innovation say their company could help cardiologists improve the diagnosis of heart disease, which the World Health Organization listed as the leading cause of death in the world in 2012.