Rice bioengineer wins ASME's Van C. Mow Medal
HOUSTON, June 20, 2005 Renowned Rice University bioengineer Kyriacos Athanasiou has been awarded the inaugural Van. C. Mow Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Athanasiou, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, was selected "for pioneering work in articular cartilage bioengine...Ancient Chinese remedy shows potential in preventing breast cancer
...ngineering, who conducted the study with fellow UW bioengineer Narendra P. Singh, a research associate professor in the department. "With the results of this study, it's an attractive candidate for cancer prevention." The properties that make artemisinin an effective antimalarial agent also appear responsible fo...Researchers take aim at the causes of heart valve disease
...know very little about the causes. Rice University bioengineer K. Jane Grande-Allen hopes to change that by designing a laboratory apparatus that will allow valve testing under the same chemical and mechanical conditions that exist inside the heart. Grande-Allen, assistant professor of bioengineering, hopes to u...GE Healthcare and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix announce research agreement
...ation of new MR applications. James Pipe, Ph.D., a bioengineer at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's, developed a new method that allows technologists to obtain clearer MR scans with less sensitivity to patient motion. This breakthrough technology, called PROPELLER (Periodically Rotated Overlapping P...Nano-particles effective in killing cancer with one-two punch of chemotherapeutics
...tions". Discher developed polymersomes with Penn bioengineer Daniel Hammer in the 1990s. The Discher lab is further studying the drug- and gene-delivery capabilities of polymersomes, tailoring their shapes, sizes, loading and degradability to each application. Discher theorizes that polymersomes could be mad...University of Utah to help build bionic arm
... and graceful as an intact, biological limb," says bioengineer Greg Clark, the University of Utah's principal investigator on the project. "That's what our researchers, teaming with others around the world, are setting out to achieve. People's arms and hands are not only tools, but also an important means by wh...Rice wins $2.2M for undergrad global health program
...ll-being of millions of impoverished people," said bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum, leader of the new program. Together with Dr. Michele Follen of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Richards-Kortum pioneered the concept for the Beyond Traditional Borders in a course she has taught since 200......ments. The program's principal investigator, Rice bioengineer Rebekah Drezek, is one of three U.S. scientists chosen by the DOD for this year's Era of Hope Scholar Award, which is given annually by the DOD's Congressionally Directed Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP). The award recognizes "exceptionally tal...