Pictures from our 3rd annual Picnic Day haunted house.

The Curriculum in Advanced Research and Education (CARE) Program, an exchange with the College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science (CBEIS) and School of Medicine, at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), was launched this Spring. Four excellent junior students from CBEIS have joined our department to study our minor curriculum along with our BME students.

Steve Ho, a graduate student in the Leach Lab, has received a Whitaker International Fellowship to do research next summer (2013) at the Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).

Our Biomedical House of Horrors, now in its 3rd year, has become one of Picnic Day’s hottest events! Don’t miss out on it this year. Tickets available for pickup at 11:30 AM for the following times: 12 PM, 12:40, 1:30, 2:10. Event located at Kemper Hall.

Sonja Fenske, a UC Davis biomedical engineering major, has received a Whitaker International Fellows Scholarship for a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Imperial College, London

“The Scientist: Magazine of the Life Sciences” writes about Laura Marcu’s use of fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) to delineate the margins of tumors.

Erica Andreozzi, a graduate student in Angelique Louie’s lab, has received a 2012/2013 Whitaker International Program grant. Erica will be working with Dr. Philip Blower, Chair in Imaging Chemistry & Head of Dept. of Imaging Chemistry and Biology at King’s College in London.

Meghan Murphy, a graduate student in Kyriacos Athanasiou’s lab, has received a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.

This Award honors students who have displayed outstanding commitment to the Biomedical Engineering Department by participating extensively in activities to promote and improve the biomedical engineering program. To nominate, submit a formal letter outlining how the candidate’s leadership has contributed to the Biomedical Engineering Department by April 30th to Rosalind Christian.

The University of California, Davis has received a prestigious 2012 Beckman Scholars Award. Angelique Louie, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Beckman Scholars Program Director at UC Davis, announced that The Arnold and Mabel Beckman foundation awarded UC Davis 3 years of funding to support up to 6 students (2 per year), to do research for 2 summers and the academic year in between.The Beckman Scholars Program stimulates, encourages and supports research activities in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, or the biological and medical sciences by exceptionally talented undergraduate students. Under the guidance of a faculty mentor, the student’s research will result in publishable results.

Eduardo Silva, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Davis, has been granted a provisional patent on a stem cell medium to speed wound healing. Combined with the appropriate delivery system, the medium reduces infection by rapidly healing skin injuries, including burns and areas from which healthy skin has been taken for grafting.

Graduate students Yuzhe Ding and Arnold Chen, and undergraduate Eric Huang, in Tingrui Pan’s lab, have been selected as one of the US teams to compete with finalists from more than 20 countries in the 2012 International Contest of Applications in Nano-Micro Technologies (iCAN’12), to be held in Beijing, China, July 6-9. For their project, “Multiplexed Microfluidic-Ribbon Printing”, the team created a non-contact printing platform using a dot-matrix printer head with replaceable microfluidic-ribbon devices, which enables large-scale, arbitrary two-dimensional micropattern generation.

Laura Marcu, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Davis, has been elected a SPIE Fellow for achievements in biomedical optics, fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy, and imaging. Marcu is a leading researcher in biomedical optics, focusing on developing fluorescence-based instrumentation and methods for clinical applications.

The U.S. News and World Report rankings are in, and UC Davis Biomedical Engineering is #21, up from 2 spots from last year, and up 5 spots from two years ago.

UC Davis BMES Student Chapter President Ana Ebrahimi has a nice article called, “Team BME: Comparing engineering students to athletes,” in the BMES Newsletter.

Tingrui Pan’s lab has developed a tiny pressure sensor that could be used in “smart gloves,” giving physicians an enhanced ability to measure the firmness of tissues and detect tumors, and in “smart contact lenses,” to monitor intraocular pressure without affecting vision.

Tingrui Pan has filed for a patent on a super-thin “nanoglue” that could be used to stick silicon wafers into a stack to make new types of multilayered computer chips.

The National Institutes of Health have awarded Kyriacos Athanasiou, a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Davis, a $1.87 million grant to continue his work on temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc regeneration. The five-year project is a collaboration with the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

The second annual Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship Academy will take place July 11-13. Applications due by June 8. For more information and to apply online, go to: http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu/bmea.php

Dr. Stefan Duma, Professor and Department Head, Virginia Tech–Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, will speak as part of the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department’s Distinguished Seminar Series 3/8/12. His talk will discuss findings from his study, Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football, recently published online in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

The Big Bang! Business Plan Competition is excited to announce the addition of a Med Tech prize track for the 2012 competition. This is in addition to our 1st place, 2nd place and People’s Choice Awards. For full information go to the competition website: http://bigbang2012.istart.org/

A recent paper by Ye Chen-Izu and her co-authors, “Profile of L-type Ca(2+) current and Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange current during cardiac action potential in ventricular myocytes,” was highlighted in an editorial in the Jan. 2012 issue of “Heart Rhythm.”

An article by Jing Liu, Yang Sun, Jinyi Qi and Laura Marcu, “ A novel method for fast and robust estimation of fluorescence decay dynamics using constrained least-squares deconvolution with Laguerre expansion,”(2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 843) is a “Featured Article” in Physics in Medicine and Biology.” Access is free for the time being!

Topic: “System Approach to understanding Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Arrhythmias Ca2+ Current and SR Ca2+ release.” For Full conference information, go to the conference website: http://www.bme.ucdavis.edu/sites/2012-ucd-cardiovascular-symposium/index.php

The Whitaker International Program recently launched the Whitaker International Undergraduate Program for students enrolled in an undergraduate biomedical engineering or bioengineering degree program. The application is now open for the first round of grants which will be for Fall/Academic Year 2012-13. Award amounts range from $7,500 for a semester program to $10,000 for an academic year program. Deadline: March 15.

According to College of Engineering figures, for the second year in a row UC Davis Biomedical Engineering ranks first in the entire college in new research awards. We also rank first in research expenditures per FTE. BME has $962,680 in research expenditures per FTE.

A paper by Leonor Saiz and Jose Vilar entitled, “Trafficking Coordinate Description of Intracellular Transport Control of Signaling Networks,” was a “Highlighted Paper” in the Biophysical Society Monthly Newsletter. Biophysical Journal Associate Editors select papers of interest in each issue, and these highlighted papers have open access for two weeks after publication.

Eleftherios Makris, a postdoc in the Athanasiou Lab, has received a scholarship for 2011/2012 from the International Cartilage Repair Society. The scholarship is supported by Zimmer.

Grayson DuRaine, a postdoc in the Athanasiou Lab and recipient of a $50,000 Arthritis Foundation Research Grant, is interviewed in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of “Headlines”, the magazine of the Arthritis Foundation Pacific Region chapter.

Laura Laura Marcu has been elected SPIE Fellow in recognition of her contributions to the area of biomedical optics. She will receive her award at Photonics West meeting in San Francisco in January.

The student design team that won “Best Overall Design” at the Senior Design Symposium last June is highlighted in the most recent issue of the UC Davis Cancer Center’s publication, “Synthesis”. Get the full article HERE.

Angelique Louie, Jinyi Qi and David Fyhrie have been elected as Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in the 2012 listing just released.

In his interview for “MedicalPhysicsWeb”, Prof. Cherry discusses recent progress in molecular imaging research and examines the translation of methods such as MRI/PET from the lab to the clinic.  Click HERE for the full interview.

The team competed in ‘foundational advances,’ one of a number of available tracks within the competition. For their project, they decided to expand the range of ‘kit parts’ available to would-be genetic engineers.

Kyriacos Athanasiou has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of Histogenics Corporation. Histogenics Corporation, a privately held regenerative medicine company, is advancing NeoCart^®, an autologous bioengineered neocartilage grown outside the body using the patient’s own cells for the regeneration of cartilage lesions, and VeriCart™, a three-dimensional cartilage matrix to stimulate cartilage repair in a simple, one-step procedure.

Alexander Revzin has been selected as a 2011-2012 Chancellor’s Fellow. Professor Revzin will receive a one-time award of $25,000 to support his research, service and teaching activities. He will also have the honor of using the title, “Chancellor’s Fellow,” until July 1, 2016.

Kyriacos Athanasiou has received one of the highest honors the Biomedical Engineering Society can bestow upon its members: the Distinguished Service Award. BMES President Richard Waugh presented the award to Dr. Athanasiou at the BMES annual meeting in Hartford, CT on Oct. 13, 2011.

Last week, Times Higher Education (THE) released its rankings of top 400 universities in the world. UC Davis has moved up 16 spots from last year, from 54th to 38th. In the list of the Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities in the world, UC Davis moved up 10 spots, from 42nd to 32nd.

UC DavisHealth System, PETNET Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., and Northern California PET Imaging Center (NCPIC) announced today that they will partner to establish a facility on the university’s Sacramento campus for research and training in radiochemistry and for the commercial production of radiopharmaceutical products used in positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

Professor Simon Cherry has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal, “Physics in Medicine and Biology”. The journal is one of the top-ranked biomedical engineering journals. This brings to two the number of top-ranked biomedical engineering journals housed in the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department. Professor and Chair Kyriacos Athanasiou is Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, the flagship journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society.

Professor Katherine Ferrara will give the 2011-2012 Adamczyk Lecture at Case Western Reserve University in March. The Adamczyk Lecture Series showcases the use of cutting-edge technology in the development of noninvasive diagnostics and novel therapies, especially in the context of cancer treatments. The Graduate Student Association organizes this talk, and uses a rigorous selection process to identify nationally recognized leaders who we believe will have a major impact on science now and in the future. Professor Ferrara’s outstanding work in targeted imaging techniques for cancer diagnosis, therapy monitoring, and image-guided drug delivery matches the multidisciplinary scope, ingenuity and impact of exemplary biomedical engineering.

Kent Leach’s research on bone regeneration is discussed in the latest UC Davis Magazine article called, “The military goes to college.“

Laura Marcu uses an innovative simultaneous time- and wavelength-resolved fluorescence spectroscope to do fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to discover the earliest signs of arterial plaques and to delineate the margins of tumors. Her work was discussed in the July/August 2011 issue of bioPhotonics magazine, in an article called, “Optical Spectroscopy Gives a Sharp Gaze into Tissues.”

Simon Cherry received the Society for Molecular Imaging’s prestigious “Imaging Achievement Award” at the World Molecular Imaging Congress in San Diego earlier in the month. This is the 11th such award. Past award recipients have included Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, and the founder of the field of biomedical optics, Dr. Britton Chance.

Rui Liu, a BME graduate student working at the Center for Biophotonics under the supervision of Drs. Dennis Matthews and James Chan, has been chosen as one of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s (SAS) 2011 Graduate Student Award winners for his outstanding research in both the technology development and applications of laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy for single biological cell analysis.

The National Institutes of Health today awarded $3.8 million to the University of California, Davis, to fund a new mouse-based research center devoted to studies of the physiology and genetics of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Katherine Ferrara is one of the collaborators in the new Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis invites applications for an Assistant Professor position with emphasis on neural bioengineering. A research emphasis in neural engineering is preferred with the ability to integrate and complement the existing research strengths within the department. Research emphasis toward clinical translation is favored.

Assistant Professor Tingrui Pan has received the Dean’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. The Dean’s Faculty Awards honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering. The awards will be presented at the New Faculty and Awards Reception November 3rd, 5:00-7:00 pm, Kemper Lobby. The recipients’ names will be added to a permanent plaque in the main lobby of Kemper Hall.

UC Davis BME finally has a Facebook page. We’ll keep it updated with useful information for students and faculty, and keep it fun, as well. Come on over and see what we’re up to. “Like” us and share with your friends!  http://www.facebook.com/UCDBME

Simon Cherry has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).  Based in the United Kingdom, IPEM is dedicated to bringing together physical science, engineering and clinical professionals in academia, health care and industry to share knowledge, advance science and technolgy and inform and educate the public. Congratulations, [...]

Congratulations to Prof. Ye Chen-Izu! Her article, ” Chen-Izu Y: Multiple levels of the single L-type Ca2+ channel conductance in adult mammalian ventricular myocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 2010 Jan 1;391(1):604-8 PMID: 19932083,” is BioMedLib’s #1 article of all time, published in the same domain.

The Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST) has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an “Ecosystem for Biophotonics Innovation” and to accelerate commercialization of biomedical technologies developed by CBST researchers. The grant will be matched with third-party investments from CBST partners. http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medschool/newsroom/newsdetail.html?key=5610&svr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu&table=published

Take a look at this impressive list of select publications by our faculty over the past few months. What a productive group!

A nice article about the UC Davis Regenerative Medicine Consortium appeared in DVM360 magazine. The article quotes Prof. Athanasiou and Prof. Nolta (BMEGG). Article:http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/Veterinary+Equine/Calif-researchers-collaborate-on-animal-human-heal/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/732396?contextCategoryId=40534

The Biomedical Engineering Society announced its 2011 class of Fellows today. Congratulations to Laura Marcu, who is one of them!

Ying Wang, a student in Scott Simon’s lab, is a winner of the BMES 2011 Graduate Student Awards (Extended Abstract). Graduate Student awards include a certificate, a complimentary registration for the Annual Meeting, and a stipend of $500 to assist with travel expenses.

Angelique Louie’s invited talk in the Molecular & Cellular Imaging course at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2011 annual meeting in Montréal received the highest quality scores of any talk in that course. The Society recognized this achievement with a 2011 “Outstanding Teacher Award”.

You can view the detailed call for papers, or find more details on the program, exhibition, and logistics at http://spie.org/bios.

Dr. Silva has accepted our offer to fill the position in translational stem cell bioengineering. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University and the University of Porto; his post-doctoral work has been at Harvard with David Mooney. He will join BME formally on November 1, 2011.

Gina MacBarb (Athanasiou Lab) was the winner for the Systems category of the poster competition at the 12th UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium. Pasha Hadidi (Athanasiou Lab) and Jeff Schmall (Cherry Lab) were finalists in the Grand Challenges in Bioengineering.

The team’s project is AcouSense- a Telemedical Sensing Platform for Sleep Apnea Monitoring. The platform provides portable, inexpensive and continuous monitoring for the sleep apnea disorders.

Alex Revzin has received a 2011 Partnerships for Innovation Commercialization Plan Award. The award will support development of a commercialization plan for a new diagnostic tool for rapid detection of infectious disease.

Prof. K.A. Athanasiou represented the Biomedical Engineering Department at SARTA’s “Sacramento Med Tech Showcase” on May 6, 2011. Prof. Athanasiou served on a committee that selected the Claire Pomeroy Award recipient for 2011. He also presented and chaired a panel discussion on Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapies.

The Nucleic Acids Research journal has highlighted Leonor Saiz’s latest work as a featured article (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/nar/featured_articles.html). As stated on the journal’s website: “featured articles represent the top 5% of papers in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence”.

Prof. Laura Marcu has received a grant award for a NIH R01 grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. This award will continue to fund her group’s research toward the development of an intravascular diagnostic technology combining fluorescence lifetime and ultrasound contrast. The proposed studies target development of new paradigms for diagnosis and management of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

The UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering inaugurated a catheter manufacturing laboratory with a workshop on catheter manufacturing taught by engineers and scientists from Medtronic, Santa Rosa. Participating faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students learned about catheter and stent technology and then observed firsthand how to make catheters using equipment donated by Medtronic Cardiovascular. The lab, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, was made possible through an ongoing partnership between Biomedical Engineering Professor Angelique Louie and Medtronic Cardiovascular in Santa Rosa.

On May 9, 2011 Dr. Michael A. Savageau, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, received an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Lleida. Dr. Savageau is a pioneer in what is now known as systems biology. His work has had a major impact on the definition of this field, which combines computer science, mathematics and engineering with molecular biology, the study of evolution and synthetic biology.

Our department has initiated a program to honor outstanding BME Staff.  Congratulations to Rosalind Christian, who received our first monthly award. Rosalind Christian consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty in her personalized service to the students, families, and BME community.  She has been nominated by various people who have noted the following: [...]

This Award honors students who have displayed outstanding commitment to the Department by participating extensively in activities to promote and improve the BME program. Submit nominations by May 17th to Rosalind Christian, rchristian@ucdavis.edu.

The academy is a five-day immersion program integrating lecture, exercises, and team projects. Biomed engineering researchers work within teams to identify, design, and validate new business opportunities. Sessions are taught by venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs and industry executives. Deadline to apply: May 20.

Click to see pictures from Leroy Hood’s Maroney-Bryan Lecture and reception.

Simon Cherry delivered the keynote dinner address at the 27th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference held at the University of Texas, Arlington, Apr 30th-May 1st. His lecture “Seeing the light – In Vivo Molecular Imaging”, discussed using visible light to non-invasively interrogate molecular targets in living subjects.

A team of biomedical engineers led by Prof. Alexander Revzin has found a way to grow liver cells from stem cells more cheaply and effectively than current methods. The group printed glass slides with an array of spots containing a protein substrate and growth factors that nudge stem cells toward becoming liver cells, then placed stem cells on the spots.

The Hartwell Foundation has added UC Davis to its list of the Top 10 Centers of Biomedical Research. For the past 3 years UC Davis was listed as a member-at-large, but this year has been included on their official list. Top Ten research institutions that fully participate in The Hartwell Foundation nomination process receive a Hartwell Biomedical Research Fellowship

Pictures from BME’s 2nd annual “Biomedical House of Horrors”, showing medical horrors that have been averted through inventions by biomedical engineers. Also pictures from our first Alumni Ice Cream Social.

Professor Katherine Ferrara has received a 2011 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Consortium for Women and Research. These awards are designed to honor faculty who have engaged in sustained and successful mentoring of women at UC Davis. Prof. Ferrara will be honored at a reception on Monday, May 16, from 4:10 to 5:30 in the Putah Creek Lodge.

Rameshwar Rao, undergraduate Class of 2008, has received a 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Ram is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

A review article by Shengping Qin, Charles Caskey, and Kathy Ferrara is the 7th most cited article in Physics & Medicine in Biology (PMB) over the past 2 years. Ultrasound contrast microbubbles in imaging and therapy: physical principles and engineering (review), has been cited 25 times.

Picnic Day!

Simon Cherry was invited to write a News&Views article for Nature Methods about one of their papers. His article, “Functional whole-brain imaging in behaving rodents”, appeared in the April issue.

A manuscript by Yuzhe Ding, Lingfei Hong, Baoqing Nie, Kit S. Lam and Tingrui Pan called ‘Capillary-Driven Automatic Packaging’ has been selected as a Lab on a Chip HOT Article and has been made free to access for four weeks. It has also been highlighted on the LOC blog . Additionally, it has been promoted [...]

Dr. Boaz Arzi, a Research Fellow in Prof. Athanasiou’s Lab and a resident at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital, operated on a young English springer spaniel with a rare birth defect that combined a cleft palate with a nose that appeared to be divided into two pieces (a bifid nose). Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/29/DDOD1IF7MH.DTL#ixzz1I8EhMOgG

The one-week Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship Academy is designed for sicence and engineering graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty working on biomedical engineering research who want to explore moving their research out of the lab and into the world. APPLY ONLINE BY MAY 20, 2011
http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu/bmea

CMGI has a limited amount of funding available to support pilot projects. These pilot funds are expected to be used to generate preliminary data for grant applications. Deadlines: April 15th, August 15th, December 15th each year.

The Times Higher Education’s 2010-2011 World University Rankings ranked UC Davis #38 in its list of the top 100 universities in the world, by reputation. UC Davis ranks at #54 on the list of the top 200 universities in the world. It ranks 34th in North America.

Professor Tonya Kuhl and Associate Professor Angelique Louie will receive awards for their mentorship and service from the Association for Women in Science, Northern California Chapter (AWIS-NCC). AWIS-NCC honored Prof. Kuhl with the Judith Pool Award, and Prof. Louie with the Ellen Weaver Award.

BME is a fun place to be!

Biomedical Engineering is ranked as 22 (out of 95 schools). However, the US News & World Report acknowledged errors in their method, and has taken down some of their Engineering specialty rankings. They do not intend to recalculate them.

Science Daily and phys.org, and many other websites have covered Tony Passerini and Scott Simon’s latest work on obesity, inflammation, and atherosclerosis: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217151445.htm http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-link-obesity-high-fat-meals-heart.html

Katherine Ferrara has been chosen to deliver the 2011 Chandran Lecture at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University on April 14. The Beverley A. and Clarence J. Chandran Distinguished Lecture Series focuses on advances in brain tumor imaging.

A program on UCTV called “State of Minds” aired a segment on UC Davis’ Stem Cell program, that featured an interview with Kent Leach, describing his work using stem cells to heal bone defects. You can watch the program here: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=20692 .

MinHo Kim and Jennifer Granick from the Simon Lab have published their latest  work online in Blood, The official journal of the American Hematological Society. They studied skin wounding using real-time fluorescence imaging of the innate immune response in a mouse model. Remarkably, they found that Staphylococcus Aureus infection in wounds can cause the emigration [...]

Dr. Grayson DuRaine, a postdoc in Prof. Athanasiou’s lab, has received a two-year Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his project, “Combinatorial stimuli in cartilage tissue engineering.”

A team of UC Davis Biomedical Engineers, led by Assistant Professor Anthony G. Passerini, has established a link between inflammation of the arterial lining, waist size, and triglyceride levels in the blood after eating a high-fat, fast food meal. The study reinforces the link between belly fat and inflammation of the arterial linings, which is the main cause of atherosclerosis.

Articles by John Boone and his students; Tingrui Pan, Alex Revzin, and Siwei Zhao; Kent Leach and Hillary Davis; and Tingrui Pan have received much attention in prominent journals.

UC Davis was selected to receive the SNM Preclinical Imaging Training Grant for 2011. The grant will be used for the expenses incurred in hosting a preclinical imaging workshop in 2011

A device co-invented by Biomedical Engineering Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou is helping to save lives in Haiti’s cholera epidemic. The EZ-IO kit, marketed by Vidacare Corporation, is a drill that helps health care personnel to insert IV lines directly into the bones of people who are too severely dehydrated or undergoing shock to access a vein.

Prof. Kent Leach has received a grant, entitled “Cell delivery for irradiated bone defects.” Prof. Leach’s lab will explore the capacity of fibrin gels engineered with enhanced physical properties to serve as effective delivery vehicles for co-transplanted cellular populations as a treatment option for irradiated bone defects such as those stemming from head and neck cancers.

The UC Davis Design and Prototyping Clinic founded by Angie Louie and Christina Davis, in mechanical and aerospace engineering was the subject of an article in the December, 2010 issue of  PRISM Magazine called, From Capstone to Clinic At a design lab, engineering students gain valuable experience solving problems for medical and veterinary researchers. By [...]

Greg Mitchell, in Simon Cherry’s lab, will be one of the presenters in Caliper Life Science’s “Cerenekov Luminescence Imaging” webinar. Broadcast Date: Thusday, January 20, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM PST A novel method in preclinical imaging that is gaining in popularity within the research community is radioisotope detection with in vivo optical imaging via Cerenkov [...]