Professors Ji-Xin Cheng and Kinam Park have been selected as shared awardees of the Lafayette Lions Club Award for Outstanding Cancer Research at Purdue.

Sean Connell, a BME graduate student, and Jianming Li, Weldon alum, both of Professor Riyi Shi's lab, represented their Biomedship spin-off company, Medtric Biotech in a recent business plan competition.

The Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce the selection of Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng for the Early Career Research Excellence Award, to be presented by the College of Engineering on April 16, 2011.

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Association (BMEGSA) helped judge the Lafayette Regional Science Engineering Fair held on March 4th and 5th. BMEGSA representatives presented awards to the junior or senior high school students with the top Biomedical Engineering related projects.

Researching a drug already approved for hypertension relief, Weldon Professor Riyi Shi and his team are finding promising results that may delay the onset and reduce the severity of symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis patients. A provisional patent has been filed on Shi's research, and commercialization partners are being sought.

BME students have a proven track record of being exemplary scholars. We are proud to announce several who have received recent recognition for their exceptional efforts.

A low-cost medication injection device company founded by a team consisting of two BMEs and one Krannert student took the top prize in the Gold Division of Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition.

Akhilesh Gaharwar, Weldon graduate student with Professor Schmidt, has received the College of Engineering 2010 Chorafas Foundation award. Gaharwar was awarded for his submission, “Design and Development of Polymer Bio-nanocomposites for Repair of Orthopedic Tissues”. The award includes a cash prize, historically intended to aid in advanced research opportunities, including travel expenses to visit Nobel Laureate’s labs around the world and travel to national conferences to present papers.

Todd Rickett, MD/PhD candidate studying under Riyi Shi, was awarded first place for engineering science in 2011 Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster competition for his work, "Peripheral nerve anastomosis with a photo-crosslinkable chitosan hydrogel". Rickett also received the same recognition in 2009 for his work, Rapid axonal reconnection with polyethylene glycol stabilized with photo-crosslinkable chitosan hydrogel. Please join us in congratulating Todd for his continued excellence.

Science on Tap Lafayette is a free monthly forum featuring some of Lafayette and Purdue University’s best and brightest minds, who discuss their work and how it impacts lives across the globe. Occurring on the second floor of the Lafayette Brewing Company in downtown Lafayette, their event provides Purdue researchers and affiliates an opportunity to teach and inform within a more comfortable and informal setting. Kate Stuart and John Paderi, organizers of the series, emphasize the importance of sharing the collective efforts of Purdue University so that they do not go unnoticed within the local community. The next talk is Feb 17th, 6pm.