The Purdue team, including Dr. Riyi Shi and innovators from several disciplines across the university, received a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Defense for their work developing biomarkers and identifying new targets for phagocytic function of microglial cells, immune cells in the brain, in the context of brain injury-related Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia.

Purdue University, Raytheon BBN Technologies, PortaScience Inc., Cortex Design Inc., and LaDuca LLC announced a partnership to produce and manufacture a COVID-19 home test developed by Mohit Verma.

Biomedical engineering lies at the confluence of the transformational rivers of health and education, fostering a culture of disruption on both fronts.

Two BME faculty innovators received Trask Innovation funding to help their labs commercialize their innovations.

Chi Hwan Lee's team has created a novel wearable patch for an improved, less-invasive treatment for skin cancer.

Science Journal for Kids published research by Dr. Jacqueline Linnes and her research team about a small device she developed to rapidly detect the HIV virus from blood. The journal publishes cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science research adapted for young students and their teachers.

A Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering alumna received a grant offer from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for 2020-21. Madeleine Henderson is one of three engineering awardees among nine Purdue University students and alumni to receive offers this year.

BME’s Hugh Lee developed a wearable/implantable device to help opioid addicts be their own “first responders”. The device senses the danger signals given off by the body and automatically administers a life-saving drug even if the addict is incapacitated.

Young Kim's research team and collaborators developed software that would enable medical staff to take a picture of a patient’s inner eyelid with a smartphone and instantly receive a near-accurate count of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells.

A senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering won first prize in the recent Boeing Innovation Challenge – a competition in which students from 10 U.S. universities, assisted by Boeing experts, developed solutions to real-world aviation issues.