Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering...( dentistry with the Purdue School of Ve...)

The Syracuse grant will be used to begin building a graduate program in bioengineering by hiring two new faculty members, integrating the resources of SUNY Health Sciences Center, and providing student support. Once a master's degree program is established, the plan calls for developing a Ph.D. program. Primary research areas include sensory systems, artificial joints, and the biophysics and biomechanics of bone. Interactions with industry will be emphasized.

Tulane will expand its biomedical engineering program by developing a new laboratory and research program in computational tissue engineering. The grant will help set up the laboratory and begin staffing it. Support will also be offered for post-doctoral scholars and graduate research assistants. Five new courses and a monthly series of seminars in tissue engineering are also planned. The laboratory will focus its research on computational modeling, including cell- and tissue-level investigations of bone growth and remodeling.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will enhance its undergraduate program in biomedical engineering and lay the groundwork for a new biomedical engineering department. The grant will enable the university to hire two new faculty members, equip a new biomedical engineering teaching laboratory and stimulate new research, with an emphasis in minimally invasive medical technologies. The educational emphasis will be in engineering design. Research will emphasize minimally invasive medical technologies.

The grants were made under the foundation's program of Special Opportunity Awards in Biomedical Engineering. These awards of up to $1 million ar
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Contact: Frank Blanchard
fb@whitaker.org
703 528 2430
Whitaker Foundation
24-Nov-1997