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Professor Ioannis Yannas, pioneer of regenerative medicine who invented artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, dies at 90

Medical and Biomedical Engineering. Further, he was the recipient of many prestigious awards including the ... Professor Ioannis V. Yannas SM ’59, a physical chemist and engineer known for the invention of ... Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. RS463_Ioannis ...

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Four researchers with MIT ties earn Schmidt Science Fellowships

Science. She is focused on the topics of biomedical engineering, statistics, machine learning, ... advised by Ali Jadbabaie, the JR East Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Civil and ... Environmental Engineering; Anette Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Five from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows

and a crime-drama enthusiast. Jacob White (Australia) Jacob White is a biomedical engineer and ... May 2022 with a BS in materials science and engineering and a minor in physics, he has been working as ... in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech in fall 2023. William Rodriguez Jimenez ’18, ...

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“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue

shoulder and knee. Guo says biomedical engineers have embedded muscle cells in other stretchy materials ... The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ...

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Ioannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering; and a charter member of the Biomedical ... MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ...

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Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body

if pain is involved,” says Siyuan Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the ... Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ...

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Susan Su

year, working with a biomedical engineering group at Tsinghua University. But the lab was relatively ... a mechanical engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been ... openness and appreciation for new experiences led her to study mechanical engineering with a concentration ...

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Department Head John Hart Announces New MechE Leadership

robotics, and other areas of biomedical engineering. Ellen has co-taught design classes (2.009 and 2.75) in ... Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). Her research focuses on the ... Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. He has provided extensive service to MechE in various roles ...

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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical

“robust and predictable.” James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who ... professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss. ... lead author of the paper is Deepak Mishra, an MIT graduate student in biological engineering. Other ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

, and I did a post-doc in biomedical engineering. My education has inspired me to ask interdisciplinary ... a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ...

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Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, proposes to use artificial ... MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will explore whether Alzheimer’s pathology is driven by ...

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MIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease

and health care providers,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ...

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A shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication

— engineered materials whose mechanical properties, such as stiffness and strength, depend on the geometric ... sensing for interaction design,” says lead author Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering graduate student ... Sethapakdi, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Soo Yeon Ahn of the ...

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An artistic approach to designing medical devices

W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Xu helped design a minimally invasive ... a senior studying mechanical engineering, has combined her passion for art and engineering through her work ... everyday spaces for her engineering work. When considering a redesign for TILT, a wheelchair attachment ...

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Quick Test for Ebola

University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, says he is impressed with the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... Engineering and Science (IMES), are the senior authors of a paper describing the new device in the journal Lab ...

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New capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected

to do, says David Putnam, a professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular ... to those injections, MIT engineers, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, have designed a new ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are ...

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Jessica Xu