Recent News

09/12/2019

Yale research team receives grant for stroke study

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale is one of seven medical institutions awarded $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to assess acute ischemic stroke treatments in rodent models.

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09/11/2019

Startup Built on Yale SEAS and Yale Med School Collaboration Receives $34M in First-Round Financing

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Kleiner Perkins and GV have powered Trucode Gene Repair to a $34 million financing round. Trucode will use the money to advance gene editing assets designed to correct the mutations behind...

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08/28/2019

Yale Graduate Student Chapter of Society of Women Engineers Receives National Award

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The SWE Graduate Community would like to recognize GradSWE at Yale University with a GradSWE Established Group Award for their long-standing commitment to the SWE Core Value of Inclusive...

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08/27/2019

New Dean of SEAS Addresses New Students (and potential engineering majors)

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

From a diverse set of studies to great resources like the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), SEAS Dean Jeffrey Brock gave students from the Class of 2023 an overview of what they...

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08/14/2019

Fan Elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Rong Fan, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Yale, as one of the Spring 2019 NAI Senior Members. The latest class of NAI Senior...

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07/25/2019

Heart cells’ environment a potentially major factor in heart disease

Department: Biomedical Engineering

When it comes to heart disease, the health of the scaffold where cardiac cells grow may be a much bigger factor than previously believed.

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07/18/2019

Building lung capacity, lung-first

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The disembodied living lungs in one Yale researcher's lab show that a standalone bioengineered lung is well along the road to reality.

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07/16/2019

Where scientists and entrepreneurs mingle

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology provides a home for those who want to develop medical devices to meet unmet needs in health care, and bring them to patients.

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07/12/2019

Scratching the surface: Metallic glass implants

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Artificial joints, blood-vessel stents, bone screws, and other implanted objects—crucial tools to help patients—carry risks related to the materials they're made of. Valves and stents, for example...

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07/10/2019

Engineering Innovation

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Maddy O'Neal held a shiny titanium screw in her hand while studying a computer model of the device on the screen in front of her, looking for potential weaknesses once the screw is put in someone'...

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07/10/2019

A Cappella Singer is at Home on Stage and in the Lab

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Neha Bhatt, '20, is not spending her summer the way she might have, practicing music and visiting family and friends in anticipation of being away next school year on a world concert tour.
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06/28/2019

Decoding Cells to Unlock Stem Cells' Potential

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Stem cells are jacks of all trades, capable of alleviating the consequences of such diverse pathologies as heart attacks, strokes and cancer. However, stem cell therapies have been hampered by...

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06/26/2019

Yale scientists discover molecular key to how cancer spreads

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool with the potential to detect those...

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06/10/2019

Biomedical Engineers Win Inaugural Art in Research Competition

Department: Biomedical Engineering

On June 7, the Yale Postdoctoral Association and the Office of the Provost announced the winners of the inaugural Art in Research Competition.

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05/22/2019

Jay Humphrey Selected as IAMBE Fellow

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Jay Humphrey, the John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, has been elected to its 2019 Class of Fellows of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (...

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