Five years of probing the brains of teenage football players reveals a disturbing truth - more than half of those who never sustain a concussion suffer lingering cognitive disability because of repeated subconcussive blows to the head.

Russell Main, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and assistant professor of basic medical sciences, has been selected as a 2014-2015 Discovery Park Faculty Research Fellow, and his project, "Imaging 3D cellular networks and fluid flow in a 3D culture model for bone," was chosen as a Discovery Park Fellows Project.

Dr. Charlie Babbs (MD, PhD), faculty member of the Weldon School, was awarded a certificate of merit as Outstanding Professor in Basic Sciences by the Class of 2014, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Cardiac surgeons could use a patent-pending invention co-designed by Weldon School graduate students Elizabeth Mercer and Johnny Zhang to standardize a test that determines if a pacemaker's leads, or the thin insulated wires that extend from the pacemaker, are securely embedded in heart tissue.

A research team using tunable luminescent nanocrystals as tags to advance medical and security imaging have successfully applied them to high-speed scanning technology and detected multiple viruses within minutes.

Neuro Vigor LLC has signed an exclusive worldwide license with Purdue Research Foundation to develop and commercialize technology that promises an innovative approach to reducing the symptoms and pain of neurological disease and injury, including multiple sclerosis, neuropathic pain and Parkinson's disease. Neuro Vigor was co-founded in 2013 by Dr. Riyi Shi, an internationally recognized researcher and professor of biomedical engineering and neurosciences at Purdue.

During the Faculty Awards Convocation on Thursday (April 24), the Morrill Awards were given to three faculty members whose careers have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and in engagement missions. Professor Ed Delp, the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering was one of the recipients.

Ji-Xin Cheng, a professor of biomedical engineering and professor of chemistry, has been selected as a 2014-2015 Discovery Park Faculty Research Fellow, and his project “High-speed, High-resolution Spectroscopic Imaging for Bioscience and Nanomaterial Characterization,” was chosen as a Discovery Park Fellows Project.