News: BME

The Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates Ph.D. students Jason Chang (Andarawis-Puri Lab), Monideepa Chatterjee (Andarawis-Puri Lab), Carolyn Chlebek ( van der Meulen Lab), Joseph Long ( Lammerding Lab), Brittany Schutrum ( Fischbach Lab), Regan Stephenson ( Singh Lab), Tibra Wheeler ( Singh Lab), and Matt Whitman ( Fischbach Lab), as well as one undergraduate senior, Joseph Kim ( Cosgrove Lab), who each recently won a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). The NSF GRFP offers 3 years of stipend support during a 5-year fellowship... Read more

Orthofit, the newest member of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, is refining the prototype of its signature product – a “smart” glove. Read more

Cornell will hold the first Annual Cancer Research Symposium to showcase diverse and groundbreaking cancer research on campus, and to better integrate investigators from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine. Read more

In March 2018, Fred Dinger III, '83 joined faculty to dedicate a room in the newly renovated BME Administrative Suite. Fred made this gift in honor of his time at Cornell Engineering and his son's, Brent Dinger '15, M.Eng. '16. Mr. Dinger is CEO and President, Aerin Medical, Inc., an active member of the Meinig School's Advisory Council and a frequent speaker on biomedical devices. Read more

Campus leaders, students and family members attended a memorial service for the late Peter Meinig, who chaired the Cornell University Board of Trustees 2002-11. Read more

The labs of Matt DeLisa and Dave Putnam has teamed with a group from Harvard to work on a vaccine delivery system based on DeLisa's versatile outer membrane vesicles. Read more

A new initiative aims to increase participation rates and enhance the success of under-represented ethnic minorities and students who are deaf or hard of hearing in biological and biomedical graduate fields at Cornell. Read more

Cornell delegates to the Clinton Global Initiative University presented their commitments to action at a pitch competition Jan. 31. Read more

Development and testing by engineering professor Larry Bonassar and his group helped a New England biomedical firm land an $87 million contract to distribute their product in Japan. Read more

Using multi-photon microscopy developed at Cornell, a group led by Nozomi Nishimura has shown the ability to produce detailed, 3-D images of atherosclerotic plaque. Read more