BME News Article
- 2012-01-13 Professor Julius Dewald Featured in New York Times
- 2012-01-12 VIDEO: Breakthrough in Early Cancer Detection (Professor Vadim Backman)
- 2011-10-24 Todd Kuiken Gives TED Talk on Bionic Arms
- 2011-10-01 Global Health Faculty Search
- 2011-09-19 VIDEO: BME Students Create Automatic Pill Dispenser for Rehabilitation Institute Patient
- 2011-06-14 Alumnae Association Grant Funds Design Projects
- 2011-05-16 Professor Hao Zhang has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development award from the NSF.
- 2011-04-19 Ten BME Students Win Undergraduate Research Grants
- 2011-04-08 BME Department Holds Midwest Biomedical Engineering Career Conference
- 2011-04-07 New Model of Whiskers Provides Insight into Sense of Touch
- 2011-03-31 Northwestern Global Health Week
- 2011-03-09 Tiny Gems Take Big Step Toward Battling Cancer
- 2011-03-08 Panel Discusses Robots, Opera, Death, and the Singularity
- 2011-02-18 What a Rat Can Tell Us About Touch
- 2011-02-15 Robots and Opera: 'Death and the Powers' and the intersection of art and science
- 2011-02-11 Digital X-ray Systems Implemented in Guatemala
- 2011-02-09 Biomedical Research Support Consortium
- 2011-01-26 Method Prints Nanostructures Using Hard “Pen” Tips Floating on Soft Polymer Springs
- 2011-01-20 Two Seniors Honored With Churchill Scholarships
- 2011-01-18 Robotic Ghost Knifefish Could Pave Way for Highly Agile Underwater Robots
- 2010-12-06 Choir of Electric Fish Makes Debut in Interactive “Scale” Exhibit at Netherlands Festival
- 2010-11-08 Malcolm MacIver Awarded Presidential Early Career Award
- 2010-10-11 Chad Mirkin Now Elected to All Three Branches of the National Academies
- 2010-10-05 Optical Technology Shows Potential for Prescreening Patients for Lung Cancer
- 2010-10-04 McCormick Teacher and Adviser of the Year Named
- 2010-10-01 Dean Ho Receives Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award
- 2010-08-05 Pens That Write with Light Offer Low-Cost, Rapid Nanofabrication Capabilities
- 2010-07-20 Combined Technologies Offer Promise for Detecting Colon Cancer in Women
- 2010-06-24 Yangrong Zhang (Professor Ameer's lab) has been selected to receive the 2010 Baxter Innovation Award
- 2010-06-24 Adam Matsil (Professor Ameer's Lab) has been selected to receive the CLP Undergraduate Summer Scholars Fellowship
- 2010-06-22 Professor Vadim Backman will be a member of the Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section for NIH for 4 years beginning July 1.
- 2010-06-14 Dhwanil Damania (Professor Backman's Lab) Wins PS-OC Young Investigators' Award
- 2010-05-25 McCormick Engineering School to Offer New MS in Engineering and Global Health Technologies
- 2010-05-18 Professor Vadim Backman, Mitra Hartmann, Alan Sahakian and Matthew Tresch have been selected the ASG (Associated Student Government) 2010 Faculty Honor Roll.
- 2010-04-30 Nikhil Mutyal (Professor Backman's Lab) was awarded for Best Student Poster at Biannual Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting in Miami,FL
- 2010-04-30 BME Professor Phillip Messersmith has been admitted as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2010-04-27 Kurt Qing Received 2010 Creativity Foundation Legacy Prize
- 2010-04-27 Chad Mirkin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- 2010-04-20 Samantha Dale Strasser ( Professor Backman's Lab) received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- 2010-04-09 BME Graduate Students Receive NIH, NSF, AHA, and Arthritis Foundation Fellowships
- 2010-04-08 Dr. Li-Qun Zhang Named Clifford C. Raisbeck, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
- 2010-04-05 Chad Mirkin Honored for Pioneering Research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2010-03-31 John Troy Named Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering
- 2010-03-31 Antonio R. Webb ( Professor Ameer's Lab) has been named the 2010 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur
- 2010-03-16 Professor Vadim Backman was named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
- 2010-03-11 Researchers Characterize Stem Cell Function ( Professor Ameer's lab )
- 2010-01-22 Phillip Messersmith and his research group use biologically inspired strategies -- such as mimicking in a sealant the sticking power of mussels -- to develop new biomaterials for the repair, replacement or augmentation of human tissue.
- 2010-01-20 Prof. Malcolm MacIver Works as Script Consultant for the New Show 'Caprica'.
- 2009-12-06 The New York Times: Proof Is in the Whiskers. Rats Are Sensitive, Too ( Professor Hartmann )
- 2009-12-01 Biomedical engineering students are involved in Engineering World Health activities
- 2009-11-13 Samantha Strasser is awarded the Chemistry of Life Processes Undergraduate Research Grant
- 2009-11-11 Dr. Robert Satcher, a Biomedical Engineering affiliated faculty member, will be the first orthopedic surgeon to orbit the earth on November 16, 2009
- 2009-11-04 Silverman Hall Encourages Medical Discoveries at the Edges
- 2009-10-26 Today's Science: How whiskers work (Professor Hartmann's Lab)
- 2009-10-21 Professor Ameer and Messersmith Awarded Highly Competitive NIH ARRA Grants
- 2009-10-14 Professor Perreault has been selected to Participate in Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium
- 2009-10-13 Professor Vadim Backman receives NSF funding to develop optical techniques for detecting cancer
- 2009-10-09 Professor Ameer featured in Science Careers
- 2009-09-18 Art Meets Engineering: Audio Installation Will Let Fish Sing
- 2009-08-05 Summer 2009 Edition of the BME Newsletter
- 2009-07-09 BME Senior James Rein places first in the 2009 MIT Whiteboard Challenge Competition
- 2009-06-30 BME students earn three of the top four places in the 2009 McCormick Frey Prize Competition.
- 2009-06-24 Chad Mirkin Receives the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention
- 2009-06-15 Robert Van Lith received the AHA (American Heart Association) Predoctoral Fellowship Award
- 2009-06-10 Biomedical engineering student Carrie Brubaker Named '50 For The Future'
- 2009-06-09 Colon cancer screening technique shows continued promise in new study
- 2009-05-27 New Nanodiamond Tool for Next-Generation Cancer Treatments
- 2009-05-14 McCormick Pioneers Low-cost HIV Test
- 2009-05-13 Members of Northwestern's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers traveled to their fall regional conference and took home several awards.
- 2009-04-16 Professor Robert Linsenmeier Named ARVO 2009 Fellow
- 2009-04-02 BME undergraduate student John Sheppard receives the 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- 2009-02-06 Professor Chad Mirkin elected to NAE
- 2009-01-12 Zev Rymer has been appointed Vice President for Research at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
- 2008-10-21 Eric Perreault was named McCormick Adviser of the Year
- 2008-10-03 Chad Mirkin Receives the 2008 Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Achievement Award
- 2008-10-02 Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
- 2008-09-28 An article from Professor Ameer's group is featured on the cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry, a premier journal for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2008-09-19 Fall 2008 Edition of the BME Newsletter
- 2008-08-21 Mitra Hartmann selected for Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
- 2008-08-20 Professor Dean Ho receives Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
- 2008-08-01 Debiao Li received a $2M NIH shared instrumentation grant for a 7T small animal MRI scanner in Chicago campus.
- 2008-07-16 A Breakthrough Dual Degree Program from the Feinberg School of Medicine and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- 2008-07-07 McCormick Announces the Winners of the 2008 Frey Prize
- 2008-06-25 NCI Grant Launches Clinical Trials for Colon Cancer Screening
- 2008-06-25 BME Students Donato, Hupman and Lim featured in Northwestern Magazine
- 2008-06-24 BME Students Win Award for Innovation
- 2008-04-12 BME Student Sam Pickerill Receives 2008 Fulbright Scholarship
- 2008-03-17 Northwestern to Build Engineering Life Sciences Facility
- 2008-02-11 Robert Linsenmeier chairs Third Biomedical Engineering Education Summit Meeting in June.
- 2008-02-08 Ed Voboril Named Chairman of Analogic Corp.
- 2007-12-17 Dean Ho Receives Grant for Cancer Research
- 2007-10-01 New BME MS program with a focus on Global Health
- 2007-07-14 BME Graduate Student Haeshin Lee was selected as "Scientist of the Year" in 2007, Korea