Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science

Mimicking the Mangrove

SEAS engineers have developed a water-purifying device that mimics the mangrove. In addition to offering a better understanding of plants’ plumbing systems, it could lead to new desalination technologies.

Faculty Spotlight

W. Mark Saltzman

Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering & Physiology

W. Mark Saltzman's research is motivated by the desire to create safer and more effective medical and surgical therapy. He focuses on tissue engineering and on creating better methods for drug delivery. The Saltzman Research Group has developed technology based on the use of bio-compatible polymeric materials for the controlled delivery of drugs, proteins, and genes.

News

Latest tech in clinical grafts? A ‘universal’ blood vessel

Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.

The advance, demonstrated in an animal model...