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BME MS student Sylvester Nwosuji and undergraduate student Dominic Marticorena

Two BME students receive President’s Student Leadership and Service Award

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BME MS student Sylvester Nwosuji and undergraduate student Dominic Marticorena are among the 2021 recipients of the prestigious award.

Fruit flies

New method preserves viable fruit fly embryos in liquid nitrogen

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BME Prof. John Bischof helps develop first-of-its-kind cryopreservation method critical to genetics research and scientific breakthroughs benefiting human health.

Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen

Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen receives BME's Best Dissertation Award

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Jules is part of the BME research that could directly benefit amputees.

Circular cells taken with imaging technology at various scales: 100nm, 100um, and 5mm. Also shows a droplet being held be a tool. All against a photo of cells taken with imaging technology.

BME-created wafers could effectively deliver and preserve protein vaccines

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The wafers — which are placed under the tongue — have the potential to improve mucosal vaccines against infectious diseases.

Nader Tavaf

PhD student Nader Tavaf successfully defends dissertation

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Tavaf successfully defended his dissertation, "Improving Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging."

Tranquillo research - lab-created heart valves

Lab-created heart valves can grow with the recipient

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Groundbreaking discovery could potentially reduce multiple pediatric heart valve replacement surgeries.

Casim Sarkar

Casim Sarkar receives Morse-Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award

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The award recognizes Prof. Sarkar for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.

Graph showing the stability of gene 1 vs gene 2

BME researchers develop a simple method for understanding cell population dynamics

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The new method may provide new quantitative insights into the dynamics of cell populations and ultimately help researchers better understand and modulate cell behavior for applications ranging from understanding cancer cell proliferation to engineering stem cells.

Image and graph showing the driver of AF: stationary rotor.

BME research develops novel approaches to identify targets for atrial fibrillation ablation

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New approaches to identify potential drivers for atrial fibrillation could potentially help guide catheter ablation.

Sam Hanson

PhD student Sam Hanson successfully defends dissertation

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Hanson successfully defended his dissertation, "Development of silica-based physical confinement models to isolate and study dormancy-prone cancer cells."