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Abbas Sohrabpour awarded Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

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PhD student Abbas Sohrabpour was awarded a 2016-17 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for his research project, "Hacking Epilepsy Networks: Studying the Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Seizures Noninvasively."

Bob Tranquillo

Bob Tranquillo's pediatric heart valve featured on KARE-11 News

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Following the Star Tribune article, NBC affiliate KARE-11 featured Professor Tranquillo's research. 

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Patrick Alford receives NSF CAREER Award

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Assistant Professor Patrick Alford has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study trauma-induced alteration of vascular smooth muscle mechanics.

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Paper by Krissy Morin is a JBME Editors' Choice for 2015

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Alumna Krissy Morin (PhD '12) had one of the papers from her doctoral thesis selected as a Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (JBME) Editors' Choice for 2015.

Bob Tranquillo

Bob Tranquillo's pediatric heart valve featured in Star Tribune

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A Star Tribune article on the University's Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium featured research in the lab of Bob Tranquillo (Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering).

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Alumni achievement: Professor Anna Grosberg

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Anna Grosberg, who was part of the department’s first graduating class, talks to us about why chose her major, what she's researching as a professor, and advice for BME students who want to pursue a career in academia.