Dandan Luo, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, has been
awarded a prestigious fellowship from the American Association of
Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). The 2017 AAPS Foundation Graduate
Student Fellowship is awarded to five students on a merit basis.
The award provides a $10,000 fellowship. The award recognizes
students’ excellence in their academic performance and
validates that their research is deemed outstanding by an expert
panel of outside pharmaceutical scientists.
Yumiao Zhang, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering and
Chemical and Biological Engineering won the first place prize out
of a field of 150 entrants for his poster presentation at the 41st
Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2015) held in Troy, New
York held April 17-19th.
Just before putting on your winter coat, hat and gloves to go
shovel yet another snowstorm a few years from now, you may first
put on a special t-shirt which will monitor your heart and your
health. Read more
Troops and civilians will get personalized health alerts via a
wearable system that Sentient Science and the University at Buffalo
are creating - Read more
A collaboration at the University at Buffalo between a software
development company and an engineering professor is working towards
creating a system which could help soldiers in the field and
civilians at home. Read more
To examine internal organs, doctors often use a tube with light
and a tiny camera attached to it. The device, called an endoscope,
helps detect cancer and other illnesses. It may soon serve another
purpose: zapping tumors. Learn more
On Thursday, April 7th, students who had placed within their
department's poster presentations competed at the school-wide
level. We are pleased to announce that our Biomedical Engineering
representatives performed very strongly. Vincent Tutino won 3rd
place in the poster competition.
This kind of “hypermodal” imaging would give doctors
a much clearer picture of patients’ organs and tissues than a
single method alone could provide. It could help medical
professionals diagnose disease and identify the boundaries of
tumors. Read more
