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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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Photo of a mother and son sitting on a couch. Caption: The Korean documentary “Microbiome Human” includes an extensive segment that chronicles the case of a young boy with autism who had struggled with severe diarrhea from infancy. He received microbiota transplant therapy as part of a clinical trial led by ASU researchers. After treatment, the boy experienced a dramatic drop in symptoms of gastrointestinal disorder and a reduction of autism symptoms. Video image from the documentary “Microbiome Human.”

TV documentary spotlights autism, microbiome research by ASU engineering and biodesign faculty

February 6, 2018

A new in-depth documentary reports on new knowledge about links between autism and health problems revealed by the work of ASU researchers.
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Portrait of Jennifer Blain Christen in her lab

Jennifer Blain Christen stimulates nerves and young minds

February 2, 2018

Jennifer Blain Christen is entering an entirely new field of medicine — electroceutical. This field treats diseases with the direct electrical stimulation of specific nerves, triggering self-treatment within the body, generally with the use of electrodes.
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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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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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Sethuraman Panchanathan speaking to a female student. Caption: Professor Sethuraman Panchanathan oversees ASU’s $540-million-plus research enterprise and leads research aimed at developing computing technologies and human-centered computing applications.

Exemplary leadership, significant contributions earn professors AAAS Fellow status

December 5, 2017

Outstanding achievements and leadership in their fields earn two Fulton Schools professors Fellow status in one of the most prominent organizations of scientists and engineers.
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Troy McDaniel holding a device. Caption: Troy McDaniel shows off the haptic devices that will be placed on the chair to deliver vibration patterns. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Fulton Schools faculty win award with innovative “person-centered” multimedia paradigm

December 4, 2017

Three Fulton Schools faculty members and one postdoctoral student win 2017 IEEE MultiMedia Best Department Article Award for person-centered multimedia computing and its assistive and rehabilitative applications for individuals with disabilities.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program logo

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.
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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.
SBHSE
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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prosthetics, prosthetics ahnds, prosthetic hand advances

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 Jennifer Blain Christen holding a device in her hand with a caption of "Associate Professor of electrical engineering Jennifer Blain Christen holds an early prototype of a point-of-care diagnostic tool, which samples biomarkers in sweat to provide an immediate look into a patient's health. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU"

ASU engineer working to develop disposable point-of-care sensor

May 17, 2017

Jennifer Blain Christen's enthusiasm to explore new and different applications of electrical engineering earned her the funding to leverage her engineering expertise to create an innovative new diagnostic tool.
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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