A team of Purdue University undergraduate students won a grand prize in the 2019 Co-making the Future China-US Young Maker Competition US semi-finals for a device that can be used to treat a type of vertigo. Five of the team members will travel to Beijing, China for an all-expenses paid trip to participate in the final rounds of the competition July 22-26.

Medical advancements can come at a physical cost. Often following diagnosis and treatment for cancer and other diseases, patients’ organs and cells can remain healed but damaged from the medical condition.

The United States is seeing an increase in the number of neurological diseases. Stroke is ranked as the fifth leading cause of death, with Alzheimer’s being ranked sixth. Another neurological disease – Parkinson’s – affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. each year.

Dane Albaugh, an alumnus of the Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and co-founder of Predictive Wear, was named a fellow of the Mitch Daniels Leadership Foundation (MDLF), a not-for-profit program aimed at recruiting and developing leaders who want to drive change in Indiana.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering won fellowships and awards for excellence in teaching, research, pitches and posters in the spring 2019 semester.

A few years ago, when Dianne Little was leading a horse around the corner of a barn, she was suddenly met by a piece of construction equipment with a tarp flapping heavily in the wind. The horse spooked, rearing up on its hind legs, and tried to head for the hills. Little held tight, refusing to lose control of the horse, but she left the barn that day with a partially dislocated shoulder and a torn rotator cuff.

Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a Shah Family Global Innovation Lab Seed Grant to develop a rapid assay for sensitive and specific cervical cancer detection.

Predictive Wear LLC, an award-winning startup based on a technology developed by members of a Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering-based student club, could receive an investment up to $250,000 in matching funds from Purdue Research Foundation's Foundry Investment Fund to help advance it to commercial viability—if the startup raises enough capital to match.

Research into an affordable, longer-lasting, patient-friendly injectable treatment for opioid users is underway thanks to a $2.9 million grant from the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. Kinam Park, Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy, is leading the study to optimize and advance a patient-friendly, naltrexone formulation from the lab scale to phase I clinical trials.

The Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is welcoming three new faculty members: Maria Dadarlat, Krishna Jayant, and Ramaswamy Subramanian.