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Photo of two men in lab coats with one holding up a dish. Caption: David Brafman (left) and Nick Brookhouser examining a plate used in an assay to characterize the identity of the hiPSC-derived neurons used in their research. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

When aging goes wrong: researchers try to identify causes of Alzheimer’s

February 23, 2018

David Brafman partnered with the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Richard J. Caselli to use a stem-cell-based approach to identify causes of Alzheimer’s disease in people with various levels of risk based on variations of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene.
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Photo of two men in lab coats standing next to each other. Caption: Chi-En Lin, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, has won Metrohm USA’s Young Chemist Award 2018. This is the second year in a row a biomedical engineer from Jeffrey La Belle’s Lab has won the award. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Doctoral candidate’s revolutionary biosensor research earns top award

February 22, 2018

Chi-En Lin, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, earned Metrohm USA’s Young Chemist Award 2018 for revolutionary research on biosensor technology.
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ASU biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, electrical engineering undergraduate student John Patterson and computer engineering graduate student Sami Mian pitch the Hoolest earbud at the ASU Innovation Open semifinal round.

Hoolest lends an ear to stress relief

January 30, 2018

Hoolest Performance Technologies, a student startup led by biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, seeks to create an earbud device that reduces the effects of performance anxiety, stress and nervousness. They will compete for $100,000 in funding at the ASU Innovation Open final round on February 2.
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Three students standing with the middle one holding a plaque. Caption: After giving their Chapter Best Practice speech at the convention, current president Ethan Marschall, former president Allison Marley and current vice president Scott Boege hold their BMES Commendable Achievement Award. Photo courtesy of Ethan Marschall

BMES student chapter earns national recognition

January 29, 2018

ASU's BMES chapter received the Commendable Achievement Award for the 2016-2017 academic year at the at the BMES Annual Meeting.
Portrait of Mo Ebrahimkhani. regenerative engineering

ASU researcher earns recognition for innovative regenerative engineering method using synthetic biology

January 23, 2018

Mo Ebrahimkhani and his research team have been recognized for their work to engineer stem cell derived organoids and advance the fields of organ transplantation, disease modeling and drug discoveries.
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Meet the Fulton Schools’ exceptional graduates of Fall 2017

December 11, 2017

As the Fulton Schools prepares to send newly graduated engineers, innovators and creators out into the world, we take time to highlight some truly exceptional graduates of the Class of 2017.
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Potential to help keep U.S. an innovation nation brings students coveted research fellowships

October 19, 2017

Six Fulton Schools of Engineering doctoral students have joined the ranks of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows, who are seen as future research and education leaders.
EducationEnergyHealth
Photo of a brain scan displayed on a monitor. Caption: Despite the popularity of transcranial electrical stimulation, or tES, in experimental applications, exactly how electricity travels through the brain is not well understood. With the aid of a $2 million award from the National Institutes of Health, Assistant Professor Rosalind Sadleir hopes to discover how current makes its way through our minds and in doing so, potentially unlock new insights into brain stimulation research and treatments. Photographer: Marco Alexis-Chaira/ASU

Rosalind Sadleir stimulates brain function, research

September 27, 2017

Rosalind Sadleir hopes to discover how current makes its way through our minds and in doing so, potentially unlock new insights into brain stimulation research and treatments.
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Five individuals, three young men and two older men, stand in a gymnasium before a poster detailing their capstone project. The caption reads: Left to right, biomedical engineering students Mohammad Mousa, John Tobey and Barrett Anderies pose for a photo with Professor Marco Santello, director of the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and Dr. Rami Aoun, of the Mayo Clinic's Department of Neurological Surgery at the SBHSE capstone project showcase in April 2017. Photo courtesy of Barrett Anderies

Biomedical engineers land second place in NIH’s DEBUT challenge

September 5, 2017

Three biomedical engineering students garnered the praise of the National Institutes of Health for their innovative 3D brain mapping tool.
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Photo of a group of students in colorful lab coats with their professor. Caption: ASU graduate and undergraduate students are getting valuable research experience in Associate Professor Sarah Stabenfeldt’s lab. Her work on developing new and improved approaches to treating neural injury has been highlighted by a leading international science organization. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU.

Royal Society of Chemistry recognizes growing impact of Stabenfeldt’s research

August 30, 2017

A leading international chemical sciences organization selects a Fulton Schools biomedical engineer as one of the up-and-coming researchers in the field.
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Meet the class of 2021

August 18, 2017

Each year, we pull aside some members of the incoming class to learn about why they came to ASU, their hopes, dreams and more. Read on to get to know the class of 2021.
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Striving for big steps in prosthetic hand technology

August 11, 2017

Fulton Schools researchers are taking aim at breaking down barriers that prevent artificial hands from giving users the full sensations and functional capabilities of natural hands.
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Photo of four students standing in lab coats. Caption: The stem cell wizards of ASU’s Brafman Lab. Left to right: Sreedevi Raman, Josh Cutts, Nick Brookhouser and Christopher Potts. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Graduate students’ lab skills help to earn funding for cutting-edge biomedical research

August 3, 2017

Studies of the mechanisms of early human neurodevelopment and the effects of aging and other risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease will be done by ASU’s Brafman Lab with recent grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission.
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A projection on a screen that says "Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Bioengineering Symposium" over a photo of two people in lab coats.

‘Soft’ side of bioengineering poised to make big impacts

July 27, 2017

A group of engineering and science faculty members is striving to expand the scope of ASU's bioengineering research and education — as well as students' career possibilities.
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Photo of four men standing in front of closed doors. Caption: From left to right, Professors Jose L. Contreras-Vidal and Marco Santello pose for a photo with Deans Joseph W. Tedesco and Kyle Squires, of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, respectively, at Old Main on the Tempe campus, June 29. Santello and Contreras-Vidal lead the ASU and UH sites for the new National Science Foundation-funded Building Reliable Advancements in Neurotechnology, or BRAIN, an Industry–University Cooperative Research Center. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

BRAIN center gathers to ponder future, direction

July 19, 2017

Researchers, leaders, industry members and stakeholders of the Industry–University Cooperative Research Center Building Reliable Advancements in Neurotechnology, or BRAIN, gathered the center's inaugural industry advisory board meeting on June 29.
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Photo of Casey Ankeny sitting at a table talking with students. Caption: Casey Ankeny (center) has demonstrated “dedication to addressing the individual needs of every one of her students,” says a recent biomedical engineering graduate. Ankeny is pictured with students at a Fulton Schools “Feast With Faculty” gathering. Photographer: Rose Serago/ASU

Creative connection: Enriching educational experience springs from Ankeny’s rapport with students

July 13, 2017

The foremost national engineering education advocacy group has given biomedical engineering lecturer Casey Ankeny one of its annual teaching awards.
Education
Portrait of Mehdi Nikkhah in his lab with a caption of "Assistant Professor Mehdi Nikkhah's vision of a microengineered chip to better understand hear attacks is being rewarded bt the National Science Foundation with a CAREER Award totaling $500,000 over the next five years. Photographer Jessica Hochreiter/ASU "

Microengineering a heart attack

May 16, 2017

With support from a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Mehdi Nikkhah is creating a heart attack-on-a-chip to better understand a disease that is a leading killer in the United States.
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Photo of a microfluidic device with E. coli cells with a caption of "The technology used in Xiao Wang’s Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab can capture images of cellular fluorescence in microfluidic devices. The images are used to illustrate in real time how engineered E. coli cells transition from one state or function to another. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU"

Xiao Wang cell fate research advances

May 15, 2017

Biomedical engineering research that is increasing knowledge about the mechanisms of cell differentiation could pave the way to new medical treatments and therapies.
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February 2018 – May 2017