The highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship has named Purdue University senior Michael Drakopoulos one of its 2017-18 scholars. Fewer than 40 U.S. students from all disciplines will receive the award this year. It funds a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and recognizes intellectually outstanding students who have a capacity for leadership and commitment to improving the lives of others. Drakopoulos is the second Purdue student to receive the award in two years.

Bionode LLC, a Purdue Weldon School-affiliated startup, is developing a non-invasive way to treat glaucoma and prevent blindness using contact lenses and glasses. Pedro Irazoqui, co-founder of Bionode and associate head and professor of biomedical engineering, explains how it works in this Inside Indiana Business interview.

A Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering-affiliated startup, GeniPhys, has attained “Second-Tier Gold Award” status from the Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund and will receive $80,000 in funding to advance its efforts.

Shelley Claridge, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a 2016 DuPont Young Professor. The prestigious award recognizes promising research that advances basic science knowledge to address global challenges in food, energy and protection.

T.J. Puls, a PhD student in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is the recipient of a 2017 International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) Graduate Fellowship for Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Science.

Hyowon Lee, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Samsung to support his work on next generation implantable medical devices. Lee's research focuses on implantable microdevices for neurological application.

Undergraduate students from Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering participated in a DesignGoodNow event designed to give students a platform to collaborate with students at universities around the world in real time to design assistive devices for people with disabilities.

Ji-Xin Cheng, professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue, is spearheading a College of Engineering preeminent team effort to develop label-free imaging technologies that can quickly and accurately analyze unaltered living cells and tissues. The team will exploit major advancements in molecular spectroscopy — a workhorse analytical approach that identifies chemical substances by the way they scatter light.