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Dec 11, 2015

Student project evolves into new tool for the biotech industry

When Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didn’t realize it would lead him down a path to earning a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and launching a company designed to help the biotechnology industry operate more efficiently.

Dec 2, 2015

Liquid metal ‘nano-terminators’ target cancer cells

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new drug delivery technique that uses a biodegradable liquid metal to target cancer cells.

Oct 15, 2015

Researchers use ‘Avatar’ experiments to get leg up on locomotion

Using an “Avatar”-like bio-robotic motor system that integrates a real muscle and tendon along with a computer controlled nerve stimulator acting as the avatar’s spinal cord, NC State University researchers have taken a giant leap closer to understanding locomotion from the leg up.

Oct 6, 2015

Questions for Michaela Rikard

Michaela Rikard, a senior in biomedical engineering, visited the White House in March to discuss the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, an effort undertaken by 120 deans of engineering to train students who can tackle the most vexing issues facing mankind in the 21st century.

Researchers in the College have worked with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University to create an unpowered exoskeleton that adds an extra spring to each step a person takes and modifies the structure of their ankles.

Oct 6, 2015

Adding a little spring to your step

Researchers in the College have worked with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University to create an unpowered exoskeleton that adds an extra spring to each step a person takes and modifies the structure of their ankles.
Student researchers

Oct 6, 2015

Department of Biomedical Engineering establishes joint undergraduate degree

With the success and popularity at the graduate level, the Joint NC State/UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering has established a joint undergraduate degree program.

DR. ZHEN GU, One of MIT Technology Review's INNOVATORS UNDER 35

Oct 1, 2015

Biomedical engineer tapped for MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

ZHEN GU, an assistant professor in the Joint NC State/UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” for his work on developing novel drug-delivery systems for treating cancer and diabetes.

Sep 28, 2015

Researchers disguise drugs as platelets to target cancer

Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient’s own platelets, allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumors and the circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize.

Sep 28, 2015

New Tech Automatically ‘Tunes’ Powered Prosthetics While Walking

Biomedical engineering researchers at NC State University and the UNC-Chapel Hill have now developed software that allows powered prosthetics to tune themselves automatically, making the devices more functionally useful and lowering the costs associated with powered prosthetic use.