BME Briefs
Welcome to BME Briefs, a place to find quick notes and posts from the faculty, students, staff and alumni of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
Year in Review: Adam's ABME Article Among the Journal's Top-10 Cited for 2018
January 07, 2020 ebh7em@virginia.eduOur publication on microfluidics-based sonothrombolysis was one of the top 10 cited articles published by Annals of Biomedical Engineering in 2018. Check it out!
Ph.D. Student Lands National Science Foundation INTERN Funding for Research at Merck
October 23, 2019 jmcmanamay@virginia.edu
Nate Sallada, a Ph.D. student in Associate Professor Bryan Berger’s lab, recently received a National Science Foundation Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students INTERN award. INTERN opportunities provide supplemental funding for students already supported by an active National Science Foundation grant, allowing them to pursue activities and training that complements their academic research experience.
The funding will support collaborative work with researchers at Merck & Co., which follows up on previous work with the pharmaceutical company that is pending publication. The research involves developing new, protein-based formulating agents to improve drug delivery for the treatment of diseases. Nate will work at Merck in winter and spring of 2020 with Matthew Lamm, director of preformulation at Merck, to further investigate the mechanism of improved drug delivery using the designed proteins developed at UVA.
Hossack Lab at IEEE in Scotland
October 21, 2019Hossack Lab grad students Elizabeth Herbst and Yanjun Xie presented their research at the 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland. Yanjun's research focused on designing a feedback control system on the diameters of microbubbles produced by a flow-focusing microfluidic device. Elizabeth's research was focused on the use of normalized singular spectrum area to isolate unique signals from ultrasound contrast agents.
Adam selected for the Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session at BMES
August 08, 2019The second annual Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session will be held at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting. Just six awardees have been selected from all papers first-authored by students and postdocs in 2018 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Hossack Lab's Adam Dixon (PhD '16) is one of the six.
Elizabeth earns the WMIS Women In Molecular Imaging Network (WIMIN) Award
August 08, 2019The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) has awarded Elizabeth the Women In Molecular Imaging Network (WIMIN) Award and a student travel stipend for the upcoming World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC). She was selected for both awards based on the scientific merit of her submitted abstract.
New publication in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
June 27, 2019Elizabeth is first author on a new paper published in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology!
AUTHORS: Elizabeth B Herbst, Sunil Unnikrishnan, Alexander L Klibanov, F William Mauldin Jr., John A Hossack.
Salerno lab attended ISMRM 2019 in Montreal, QC, Canada
June 16, 2019 jw4re@virginia.eduInternational Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) is the biggest society for magnetic resonance ressearchers. ISMRM holds its annual meeting every spring. This year, ISMRM's 27th annual meeting is hold in Montreal, QC, Canada from May 11-16.Our salerno lab members Ruixi Zhou and Junyu Wang attended the conference and presented their works as digital posters.
Ruixi's Paper Accepted by MRM
April 30, 2019 jw4re@virginia.eduCongratulations! Ruixi's paper SPARCS: Free‐breathing cine imaging with motion‐corrected reconstruction at 3T using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory correction and Cardiac Self‐gating just published on MRM!
For more information, please check on: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.27763
Lampe Lab Has Article in Press in Journal of The American Chemical Society
April 10, 2019 jjk8f@virginia.edu
James Tang, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate, is the lead author with Assistant Professor Kyle Lampe of “Stimuli-Responsive, Pentapeptide, Nanofiber Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering.” The article is in press in the Journal of The American Chemical Society. Cameron Mura, a senior scientist in the Bourne Lab associated with UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science.
Always be waiting on something
February 06, 2019 knaegle@virginia.eduThere is a wonderfully intoxicating process of building your lab as an independent investigator. All the decisions are yours now. Who becomes part of your team, how you run the lab, when you have lab meetings, where do you order reagent X from..the possibilities are endless.