News Highlights
Read about recent accomplishments by our faculty and students. Highlights include recent faculty grants and awards, exciting technology, and student awards. For all of our news, click here.
Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering FOSBE 2022
Professor Ioannis Androulakis is the Conference Chair for the 2022 Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prof. Adam Gormley receives NIH and NSF grants to advance cutting-edge research in nanobiomaterials
Professor Adam Gormley recently received a $2 million R35 award from the National Institutes of Health to study synthetic ligand multivalency and an NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer … Read More
Professor Maribel Vazquez Appointed to Faculty Diversity Initiative at Rutgers
Maribel Vazquez, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was appointed as one of three faculty directors at Rutgers-New Brunswick charged with engaging diverse scholars from three targeted groups: … Read More
Doctoral Candidate Secures Biomechanics Internship with New York Yankees, Leads Team to Wild Card Berth
Courtney Semkewyc, a biomedical engineering (BME) PhD student, admits that her path to finding her passion in baseball biomechanics was, in a word, “weird.” But, she quickly adds, “what’s great about BME is there’s so much you … Read More
BME Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships from NJ State Commission on Cancer Research
A two-year, $50,000 Pre-doctoral fellowship has been awarded by the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) to Rebecca Risman to examine the mechanisms of cancer associated thrombosis. Rebecca is a BME … Read More
Someday a robot may draw your blood.
The July/August issue of Discover features an article about the groundbreaking research coming out of Professor Martin Yarmush’s lab–developing a robotic blood-drawing device that has particularbenefits for those with small … Read More
Faculty collaborate on NIH R21 award
Professors Bonnie Firestein from Cell BIology & Neuroscience and Nada Boustany from BME were awarded a NIH R21 grant ($431,444 total amount) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and … Read More
Professor Labazzao receives Provost’s Award for Innovative Teaching
Rutgers University’s annual Chancellor’s and Provost’s Awards for Faculty Excellence honor faculty whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers. This year, Kristen Labazzo, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical … Read More
BME seniors win RICE 360° Global Health Design Challenge
A Rutgers BME senior design team captured first place in the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health student design competition with the design of a cancer-diagnosing smartphone app able to … Read More