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NSF Graduate Research Fellow combats cancer with math

July 20, 2018

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Brendon K. Colbert will determine mathematically how immune systems interact with cancer for better treatment.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellow aims to improve lives with synthetic biology

July 13, 2018

Lexi Bounds turned an interest in soccer balls made of lab-grown cells into a promising biomedical engineering research career.

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Photo of two men in a lab with one holding a lightbulb. Caption: Yuji Zhao (left), an electrical engineering professor in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and Houqiang Fu (right), a doctoral student in Zhao’s research group, hold an LED light bulb. Zhao and Fu are authors on a paper recently published in a leading photonics journal highlighting the theoretical limits and future directions for light-emitting diode technology. Photo courtesy of Yuji Zhao

ASU Bisgrove Scholar illuminates the future of LED lighting

April 27, 2018

Light-emitting diode research by Yuji Zhao outlines the theoretical limits of efficiency and expands LED use to wireless communications and medical applications.

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Photo of five people standing behind an oversized check. Caption: ASU President Michael Crow (second from left) accepts $2 million check to kick off a medical technology workforce development initiation. Pictured with Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Chucri, District 2, MCIDA Executive Director Shelby L. Scharbach, MCIDA Board Member Jeremy Stawiecki, and MCIDA Business Development Officer Gregg Ghelfi. Photographer: Charrie Larkin/ASU.

ASU accepts $2M grant to prepare workers for MedTech jobs

February 28, 2018

This week the Arizona State University Foundation accepted a $2 million check from the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority (MCIDA) to fund a new workforce development project to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship in Maricopa County.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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