Recent News

01/12/2021

Murrell named to list of inspiring Black scientists

Department: Biomedical Engineering

At least a dozen Yale faculty members and researchers have been included in a list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America appearing in Cell Mentor, an online resource for researchers.

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12/01/2020

Humphrey Wins Grants for Single Ventricle Research

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Jay Humphrey, the John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, has received the Single Ventricle Research Fund (SVRF) from the nonprofit foundation Additional Ventures.

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11/19/2020

Newly Identified Gene Could Slow Down Tumor Repair in Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Treating tumors presents a tricky conundrum: a higher dose of radiation is more effective for treatment, but the higher the dose, the more danger it poses to healthy cells.

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11/16/2020

With Barcoding, a Better Understanding of Life Forms

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Because of the very complicated organization of tissues and cells, it’s still not entirely understood how tumors form, for instance, or how different organs emerge in early-stage embryos. To help...

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10/30/2020

Yale alumni receive $30k prize for medical device design

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

A team of recent Yale alumni received a $30,000 prize from the CT Innovations Biopipeline Fund to continue developing a new medical device and to pursue a patent.

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10/08/2020

Yale Cancer Center Receives NIH Grant to Fund COVID-19 Research in Patients with Hematologic Cancers

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Research Project Cooperative Agreement grant to Yale Cancer Center (YCC). The 2-year, $1.4 million U01 award will fund immuno-serological...

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10/06/2020

Yale PET Center Receives $10.2M BRAIN Initiative Grant to Build New Scanner

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale scientists will build the next-generation human brain PET scanner, the NeuroeXplorer (NX), to be installed at the Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center in two years.

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09/01/2020

Anjelica Gonzalez Named Tsai CITY Faculty Director

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking (Tsai CITY) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anjelica Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as its new faculty director....

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08/21/2020

Yale-led surgical innovation promises better dialysis outcomes

Department: Biomedical Engineering

A new technique developed by a Yale-led research team improves blood flow in surgically made blood vessels used in dialysis, enables them to last longer, and results in fewer complications than...

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08/12/2020

Peters Named Senior Fellow of ISMRM

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Dana C. Peters, associate professor of radiology & biomedical imaging and biomedical engineering, has been selected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in...

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07/14/2020

Yale, Cambridge pioneer new way to make kidneys safe for transplant

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The rise in diabetes and high blood pressure-related diseases has led to a major need for kidney transplants, but the quality of available organs has been on a steady decline. Now, a new procedure...

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07/02/2020

COVID-related Pilot Projects Are Selected for Research Funding

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Three pilot projects to investigate aspects of the current pandemic have received funding from Yale's COVID-19 Research Resource Fund, which was built with generous contributions from Yale's...

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06/29/2020

Yale Cancer Center Researchers Awarded $2.8 Million Cancer Systems Immunology Grant

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale Cancer Center (YCC) researchers were awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate and model cytokine signaling related to immunotherapy for cancer.

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06/24/2020

Yale named Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research by The Hartwell Foundation

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale University has been designated by The Hartwell Foundation as a Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research for 2020, garnering this distinction for its strengths in child health research in...

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06/19/2020

Will chemo cause heart failure? A new test may have answers

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale doctors have developed a technique to predict whether cancer patients receiving a common chemotherapy drug are likely to experience heart failure as a result.

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