BME News
January 9, 2024
Hands-on experience with wearable sensors provides students with the knowledge necessary to help transform healthcare
Digital technologies will play a major role in shaping healthcare’s future. This course teaches students about every aspect of wearables and how to process the continuous data streams from the sensors.
January 4, 2024
BME’s Andrew Otte awarded funds to develop a long-lasting biodegradable implant for the treatment of opioid use disorder.
Andrew Otte, PhD is an Emerging Leader in BME. Recently he was awarded $9.85 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a long-acting biodegradable implant of the drug buprenorphine, which is used for the treatment of opioid use disorder.
November 8, 2023
BME’s Qazi gets funding and award to pursue research into biomaterials that help repair muscle tissue
Taimoor Qazi, assistant professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, recently received a $75,000 Junior Investigator grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF Biologics) to explore a new injectable biomaterial graft for muscle generation.
October 13, 2023
AI takes the reins in deep-tissue imaging
Reilly Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering's Fang Huang's research team built a novel AI engine.
October 5, 2023
Jayant selected for NIH Director's New Innovation Award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Krishna Jayant, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, was selected for a prestigious award created to reward and encourage young researchers.
October 3, 2023
Rodriguez selected as a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipient
Natalia Rodriguez, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Public Health who holds a courtesy appointment in BME, has been selected as a 2023 National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award recipient.
September 20, 2023
Student design team wins $20K prize
A senior design team from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering won first place in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering’s Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Team (DEBUT) Challenge.
September 12, 2023
Modeling release rates for implantable drugs
A novel mathematical model can bypass time-consuming and costly experimentation to accurately predict the drug release. The underlying study, “Mechanistic computational modeling of implantable, bioresorbable, drug release systems,” has been published by the journal Advanced Materials.