Three Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students have been awarded Joe Bourland Travel Grants: TJ Puls, Julia Fraseur; and Shruthi Suresh. Dr. Joe Bourland established this competitive award to graduate students in need of funds to support their travel to a conference as part of their graduate studies.

Representatives from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the College of Veterinary Medicine will be at the West Lafayette Farmer's Market in Cumberland Park throughout the summer to showcase how basic science and engineering concepts are used to address problems in human and animal health.

Purdue University is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jackie Linnes, an assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health research project aimed at developing a low-cost technology similar to a pregnancy test for detecting HIV infection.

Senior Victoria Messerschmidt gains an invaluable research experience examining how to reduce the dangers of kidney dialysis.

Purdue will hold the Sixth Summer Workshop on Spectroscopic Imaging on July 7-8 to present the most recent advances in spectroscopic imaging platforms, which could lead to innovative research tools and medical diagnostics.

A disability-friendly lab space at Purdue developed by Bradley Duerstock, associate professor of engineering practice, is discussed in this Nature article.

Researchers have shown how controlling cholesterol metabolism in pancreatic cancer cells reduces metastasis, pointing to a potential new treatment using drugs previously developed for atherosclerosis.