News & Highlights
Best in Class
Sarah Rooney is this year’s winner of the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Shining a Light on Gene Regulation
Cancer treatments—from radiation to surgery to chemotherapy—are designed to remove or kill cancerous cells, but healthy cells often become collateral damage in the process. What if you could use lasers to pinpoint the treatment area and deliver medicine to cancer cells only?
Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Rachel Riley
Rachel Riley Graduate Student Rachel Riley will be defending her dissertation on Monday, June 18th at 10:00 am in ISE Lab Room 322. TITLE: Nanoshell Platforms for Targeted Gene Regulation and Light-Triggered Cancer Therapy When: 10:00 am Monday, June 18, 2018...
New award supports BME junior faculty
Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, is the first recipient of the new Dr. Bernard Canavan Biomedical Engineering Early Career Faculty Research Award.
Engineering’s Emily Day Earns NSF Career Award
Developing nanoscale materials to outsmart cancerous tumors Emily Day, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to engineer membrane-wrapped nanoparticles for targeted...
UD Biomedical Engineer Lands NSF CAREER Award
John Slater to build an in vitro model of microstroke John Slater, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to develop a tissue-engineered model of ischemic...