Rutgers Biomedical Engineering

Ilker Hacihaliloglu receives 2017 American Cancer Society – Institutional Research Grant Early Investigator Pilot Award: Dr. Hacihaliloglu has been awarded the 2017 American Cancer Society – Institutional Research Grant Early Investigator Pilot Award, which is a one-year $50,000 grant. Together with his collaborators from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (John Nosher, Eric Singer) and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (David Foran), Dr. Hacihaliloglu will develop new machine learning methods for accurate and robust classification of liver and kidney cancer from 3D ultrasound data.

ACS-IRG Early Investigator Pilot Award granted to Prof. Adam Gormley:
Professor Adam Gormley has been awarded an American Cancer Society – Institutional Research Grant Early Investigator Pilot Award. This one-year $50,000 grant is to support development of bioactive nanomedicines that target receptor proteins on cancer cells.

June 27, 2017: Professor Biju Parekkadan has developed a new technology -- LASSO (long-adapter single-strand oligonucleotide) probes -- that can capture and clone thousands of long DNA fragments at once. This technology will allow scientists to create massive libraries of proteins from DNA samples, potentially ushering in a new era of functional genomics. The research is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering https://goo.gl/rSwn5c.

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BME Graduate Student Wins SoE Outstanding Student Award:
Andrea Gray was chosen as this year’s recipient of the Rutgers School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award. Andrea graduated in January 2016 after completing her PhD thesis entitled, “Approaches for Improving the Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells”, under the guidance of Professor Martin Yarmush. Andrea is currently a Staff Fellow in the Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies within the Center for Biological Evaluation and Research at the US Food and Drug Administration.