News & Events

Ziwen Zhu, a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering from Deepak Nagrath’s lab, has received one of the 2019 Precision Health Scholar Awards for his project titled “Metabolic Liquid Biopsy to Predict Treatment Response in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer”

Recent Publications from BI Research Groups

Isabelle Lombaert was named Salivary Researcher of the Year by the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) – The Salivary Research Group (SRG).

The team developed 3D scaffold systems with tessellated compartment geometries and a two-step seeding technique to model and study vessel sprouting decisions.

Learn more about Jim Weiland’s work with the Argus retinal prosthesis.

BIONIC recently organized a rapid need-finding and solution modeling student-led event on aging.

Recent Publications from BI Research Groups

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Congratulations to Sunitha Nagrath on being in the inaugural class of Rogel Scholars!

Congratulations to Tim Bruns (Biomedical Engineering) who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

Members of six BI groups were awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships.

The inaugural BI Research Day and third annual microposter session was a huge success! Thank you to all who participated.

Drs. Tae-Hwa Chun and Eric D. Buras published their findings on the impact of obesity on respiratory muscles—in particular, the diaphragm in mice in the journal Diabetes.

The inaugural 2019 BI Innovator Awards are awarded to Tim Bruns, Yichun Wang and Rose Cersonsky.

Through the Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups (MINTS) initiative, UM will invest $500K in GreenMark Medical, a startup based on technologies developed by BI Director, Joerg Lahann.