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April 18, 2019April 18, 2019

BE’s Jason Burdick Receives the 2019 Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal

by Sophie Burkholder The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate our very own Jason A. Burdick, Ph. D., on being awarded the Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal. Dr. Burdick is the Robert D. Bent Professor and a member of both the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) and Center for Engineering Mechanobiology …

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March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

BE Grace Hopper Lecture: Powering Tumor Cell Migration Through Hetergeneous Microenvironments

We hope you will join us for the 2019 Bioengineering Grace Hopper lecture by Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King. Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019 Time: 3:30-4:30 PM Location: Glandt Forum, Singh Center, 3205 Walnut Street Speaker: Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D. Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engienering Vanderbilt University Title: “Powering Tumor Cell Migration …

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March 8, 2019March 7, 2019

Dr. LeAnn Dourte Appointed Practice Associate Professor

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania would like to congratulate LeAnn Dourte, Ph.D. on her recent promotion to Practice Associate Professor. Formerly a Senior Lecturer, this promotion reflects Dr. Dourte’s innovative approaches to pedagogy since arriving at Penn in 2011. The title of Practice Associate Professor reflects exceptional accomplishment in teaching, leadership, …

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February 13, 2019February 22, 2019

Week in BioE (February 13, 2019)

by Sophie Burkholder Bioengineers Tackle Heart Disease Heart disease is currently the leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in about 630,000 deaths every year according to the Center for Disease Control. One of the most common side effects of heart disease is damage to blood vessels and cardiac tissue, which can ultimately …

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October 17, 2018

Michael Mitchell Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Michael Mitchell, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, is drawing on a variety of fields — biomaterials engineering, data science, gene therapy and machine learning — to tailor the next generation of drug delivery vehicles with this level of precision. His work in this field has earned him a $2.4 million NIH Director’s New …

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August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

Week in BioE (August 16, 2018)

Microscopic Magnets Reduce Pain Drugs are commonly injected directly into an injury site to speed healing. For chronic pain, clinicians can inject drugs to reduce inflammation in painful joints, or can inject nerve blockers to block the nerve signals that cause pain. In a recent study, a group from UCLA developed a technique to deform …

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August 9, 2018August 9, 2018

Week in BioE (August 9, 2018)

Converting Fat to Fight Obesity There are two types of fat in the human body: brown and white. Brown fat, the “good” fat, is rich in mitochondria, which gives it its brown appearance. Whereas white fat stores calories and acts as an insulator, mitochondria-rich brown fat burns energy to produce heat throughout the body and …

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July 27, 2018July 31, 2018

Week in BioE (July 31, 2018)

New Data Analysis Methods Like many other fields, biomedical research is experiencing a data explosion. Some estimates suggest that the amount of data generated from the health sciences is now doubling every eighteen months, and experts expect it to double every seventy-three days by 2020. One challenge that researchers face is how to meaningfully analyze …

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May 2, 2018May 1, 2018

Robert D. Bent Chair for Jason Burdick

The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Bioengineering is proud to announce that Professor Jason Burdick, PhD, has been named the Robert D. Bent Chair. Robert Bent is an internationally recognized nuclear physicist who spent most of his career at Indiana University. A PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado (2002), Dr. Burdick was …

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May 1, 2018May 3, 2018

Week in BioE (May 1, 2018)

To Bee or Not To Bee You might have heard reporting over the last few years that honeybees are dying at faster-than-usual rates. Over the last decade, colony collapse rates increased significantly, causing precipitous losses in the overall bee population. The consequences could be grave: in addition to providing honey, bee pollination is an important …

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