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Quantitative evaluation of impact attenuation by football helmets using a modal impulse hammer
Leem, J. W., Park, J., Kim, S., Kim, S., Choi,S.H., Choi, K. and Kim, Y. L. (2018), Fluorescent Proteins: Green‐Light‐Activated Photoreaction via Genetic Hybridization of Far‐Red Fluorescent Protein and Silk (Adv. Sci. 6/2018). Adv. Sci., 5: 1870033. doi:10.1002/advs.201870033
Amelia Adelsperger, Evan Phillips, and Craig Goergen co-authored Development and growth trends in angiotensin II-induced murine dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysms. 01 April 2018.
Goergen receives ‘Grand Challenges Explorations’ grant for project to help expecting mothers.
Four graduate students advised by Zhongming Liu win highly-competitive awards from international societies.
The Purdue MRI Facilities website has launched. The website is dedicated to the Engineering MRI Facility and the Small Animal MRI Facility, which is supported by the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Safety information, policies, pricing, and scheduling information is provided.
Young Kim, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is developing technology that could allow users to quickly determine the health of plants in the field and of fruits and vegetables in groceries through the translation of digital images on smartphones into virtual hyperspectral images.
Fang Huang, an assistant professor of biomedical research, is developing a next-generation “nanoscope” that promises to reveal dynamic mechanisms inside living cells.
Young Kim, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received a $110,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to support his work on silk-based fibers for biosensing and therapeutic platforms.
Published in Journal of Controlled Release, Professor Craig Goergen co-authored Murine ultrasound-guided transabdominal para-aortic injections of self assembling type I collagen oligomers.
Gurneet S. Sangha, Evan H. Phillips, and Craig J. Goergen co-authored In vivo photoacoustic lipid imaging in mice using the second near-infrared window. Biomed. Opt. Express 8, 736-742 (2017).
Chi Zhang, Kai-Chih Huang, Bartek Rajwa, Junjie Li, Shiqi Yang, Haonan Lin, Chien-sheng Liao, Gregory Eakins, Shihuan Kuang, Valery Patsekin, J. Paul Robinson, and Ji-Xin Cheng co-authored "Stimulated Raman scattering flow cytometry for label-free single-particle analysis," Optica 4, 103-109 (2017).
Shelley Claridge, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry, have been named 2016 DuPont Young Professor. The award recognizes promising research that advances basic science knowledge to address global challenges in food, energy and protection.
Ji-Xin Cheng, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry and a member of the Center for Cancer Research, has assisted in new research focusing on inhibiting lipid metabolism of cancer stem cells.
Diana O. Svaldi (Thomas Talavage, advisors) graduated in December 2016.
Chien-Sheng Liao (Advisor: Ji-Xin) and Gurneet Sangha (Advisor: Craig Goergen) receive Ronald W. Dollens Scholarship.
Shelley Claridge, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry, have been inducted into the Purdue University Teaching Academy.
The recipient of the 016 Fearnot-Laufman-Greatbatch Award is Lauren Marussich. The Fearnot-Laufman-Greatbatch Award is given each year to the BME or IBSc graduate student who gives the best BME summer seminar presentation, as determined by audience member evaluations.