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French Fulbright Scholar Works with BME Professor to Improve Surfactant...
Marcel Filoche Marcel Filoche, a French physicist and research director for France’s national research institution, ends his term as a Fulbright scholar in the BME Department this month having provided...
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Michigan Engineering moves up in US News rankings
by Kate McAlpine Science Writer & Web Content Specialist College of Engineering kmca@umich.edu The U-M College of Engineering has maintained its edge on a national level according to the latest...
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Smart gas sensors for better chemical detection
Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient’s breath, and decide whether it’s safe to stay in a mine. These devices do all this by...
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Spring 2012 BME Newsletter
This Spring’s Newsletter features: PORES, PUMPS, & DISEASE: How Two Serendipitous Discoveries in Michael Mayer’s Lab Hold Early Promise for Alzheimer’s and Cancer Research (p. 1) Message from the...
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New U-Mich joint biomedical department holds promise for better healthcare...
Bringing engineers and physicians together under new structure will accelerate discovery and improve training ANN ARBOR, Mich.– In an effort to develop more technologies that improve health care, the...
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Understanding Alzheimer’s: Study gives insights into how disease kills brain...
Article by: Nicole Casal Moore ANN ARBOR—Exactly how Alzheimer’s disease kills brain cells is still somewhat of a mystery, but University of Michigan researchers have uncovered a clue that supports the...
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Professor Alan Hunt Memorial
It is with profound sadness that U-M BME shares news of the death of Alan J. Hunt, professor of biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering. Professor Hunt died on October 28, 2012 at the...
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Targeting Disease With Nanoparticles
“Nanoparticles, which are popular candidates for ferrying drugs to target locations in the human body, have been shown to evade the immune system and infiltrate tissues and cells. This makes them...
View ArticleBuilding better blood vessels could advance tissue engineering
ANN ARBOR—One of the major obstacles to growing new organs—replacement hearts, lungs and kidneys—is the difficulty researchers face in building blood vessels that keep the tissues alive, but new...
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BME Professor’s Bioresorbable Splint Saves Baby’s Life
A custom-designed and -fabricated bioresorbable tracheal splint made by BME Professor Scott Hollister, PhD, and Otolaryngology Associate Professor Glenn Green, MD, was used in a patient for the first...
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2013 BME Alumni Merit Award Recipient
TIMOTHY J. KRIEWALL Dr. Kriewall’s first career centered around biomedical engineering. After receiving his doctorate through a NIH Special Fellowship, he joined our faculty, focusing on both perinatal...
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Hollister and Green use 3-D splint to save another life
U-M BME Professor Scott Hollister and U-M Mott Dr. Glenn Green have done it again by teaming up to design and implant a 3-D printed tracheal splint, saving another child’s life. Garrett Peterson, only...
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BME Spring / Summer News Publication
It’s a little bit later than usual, but we are excited to share with you the spring/summer 2014 edition of the University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering News. This issue provides an in-depth look...
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Shea Named Chair of U-M BME
August 25, 2014 Contact: Brandon Baier, 734-647-6109, bbaier@umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI – Lonnie D. Shea has been named professor and chair of the University of Michigan Department of Biomedical...
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BME Fall 2014 News
In our fall issue of the U-M Biomedical Engineering Magazine, we introduce incoming chair Lonnie Shea and explore the very personal roots of his vision for the department’s future. We survey the world...
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Brittle bone disease: Drug research in mice offers hope
Contact: Gabe Cherry, 734-647-7085, gcherry@umich.edu ANN ARBOR – New research in mice offers evidence that a drug being developed to treat osteoporosis may also be useful for treating osteogenesis...
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New study shows how babies’ lives were saved by 3D printing
Media Contact: Beata Mostafavi 734-764-2220 Source Article Link ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kaiba was just a newborn when he turned blue because his little lungs weren’t getting the oxygen they needed. Garrett...
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Heartbeat on a chip
From: Kelly O'Sullivan MconneX The ability to accurately test drugs and therapies for human use is a goal we desperately need to reach. Often animals are used to test drugs intended for human use,...
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Lung simulation could improve respiratory failure treatment
Contact: Gabe Cherry, 734-763-2937, gcherry@umich.edu ANN ARBOR – The first computer model that predicts the flow of liquid medication in human lungs is providing new insight into the treatment of...
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Engineering Alum Bets on Millennials with $2M Gift
“Your teaching style will crash and burn with the millennials.” That’s what friends told University of Michigan alum Bill Hall in 2004 when he took on a teaching role at U-M for the first time in...
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