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Buzzing with Innovation: Heersink’s thriving start-up culture is producing creative solutions to improve health care outcomesJune 27, 2025Heersink’s thriving start-up culture is producing creative solutions to improve health care outcomes. Academic medical centers (AMCs) are among the United States’ most active hives of biomedical innovation thanks to their often robust research enterprises.
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In diseases due to exposure to toxic particles like gout, macrophages elicit separate pathways for inflammation and lysosomal functionJune 23, 2025The understanding of how macrophages regulate their response to toxic particles via two independent pathways could uncover therapeutic opportunities to quell inflammation.
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Global experts converge for CNIC’s 9th annual Cardiovascular Bioengineering SymposiumJune 18, 2025The Cardiovascular National Innovation Center (CNIC) recently hosted its 9th Annual Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, an immersive, three-day event that united world-leading scientists, engineers, and clinicians on the front lines of heart failure treatment and cardiovascular regeneration.
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8 employees graduate from 6th cohort of UAB Medicine SAIL programApril 29, 2025The UAB Medicine Leadership Development Office recently recognized eight individuals in its sixth cohort of Sharing Authentically to Inspire and Lead (SAIL). The spring 2025 graduates were honored at a ceremony on April 8.
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UAB CNBCI hosts 3rd annual NeuroGateways SymposiumApril 21, 2025The Center for Neuroengineering and Brain-Computer Interfaces (CNBCI) under the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine hosted its third annual NeuroGateways Symposium on April 10-11 at the UAB Alumni House.
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Voucher awards will accelerate spatial biology researchApril 2, 2025UAB’s new Lunaphore COMET multiplex immunofluorescent platform can hyperplex up to 40 antibodies on a single pathology tissue sample.
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Ho-Wook Jun Inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of FellowsApril 2, 2025Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), was recently inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
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Paving the path to medicine: UAB junior secures national research opportunitiesMarch 19, 2025Snekha Rajasekaran plans to leverage her passion for medicine and social welfare to become a service-oriented physician-scientist, improving lives in Alabama and beyond.
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Samal receives COMET grant for stroke researchMarch 11, 2025Juhi Samal, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a recent recipient of the COMET™ from the Heersink School of Medicine Immunology Institute for her proposed study, “Immune Cell Sialoglycan Signatures in Ischemic Stroke.”
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Khong, Coyne Named UAB Engineering Students of the YearFebruary 18, 2025Khong, Coyne Named UAB’s Engineering Students of the Year at Annual ECOB Banquet On Tuesday, February 18, senior biomedical engineering student Georgianna Khong was named the School of Engineering’s Undergraduate Student of the Year, and Caila Coyne, a neuroengineering Ph.D. student, was named Graduate Student of the Year.
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2025 Pittman Scholars announcedJanuary 29, 2025The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is proud to announce the 2025 Pittman Scholars. This prestigious honor recognizes assistant professors who have held that rank for fewer than five years for their exceptional research achievements and potential for future contributions to their fields.
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Biomedical Engineering students represent at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2024, Wei named finalist for prestigious Melvin L. Marcus AwardJanuary 13, 2025The UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering had a prominent presence at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2024 in November. The department had seven presentations, as well as a student, Yuhua Wei, Ph.D., named a top five finalist for the Melvin L.
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Eberhardt receives the 2025 Robert M. Nerem Education and Mentorship MedalJanuary 9, 2025Alan W. Eberhardt, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of Education in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the 2025 Robert M.
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Cell-based therapy improves outcomes in a pig model of heart attacksJanuary 7, 2025Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance.
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Trials and tribulations of cell therapy for heart failure, an update on ongoing trialsNovember 26, 2024Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years. New therapies are needed.
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UAB Biomedical Engineering Shines at BMES Annual MeetingNovember 25, 2024The UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Engineering recently showcased its research at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) annual meeting, the world’s leading professional society committed to advancing human health and well-being through biomedical and bioengineering innovation.
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UAB honors innovators at 2024 Innovation Awards, celebrating pioneers in entrepreneurship and researchOctober 30, 2024The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) celebrated its annual Innovation Awards on October 11, 2024, recognizing outstanding innovators and entrepreneurial achievements.
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Biomedical engineering student selected for National Science Foundation program spent summer in Puerto RicoOctober 23, 2024Chloe Naquin spent nine weeks in Puerto Rico studying the Cuban tree frog as part of the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
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Biomedical Engineering Completes First Cycle of Certificate Program SuccessfullySeptember 24, 2024by Hannah BuckelewThe Translation of Biomedical Innovations to Clinical Practice Certificate Program completed its first successful cycle in 2024.
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UAB startup Endomimetics receives $2.8 million Small Business Innovation Research grantSeptember 20, 2024The NIH grant will support development of a BionanomatrixTM coating for an aneurysm-therapy flow diverter in the brain.
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Sun, Sand, and… Toxic Amphibians?September 18, 2024NSF Program Sends BME Undergrad to Puerto Rico for Summer Research Project Spending several weeks on a Caribbean island may sound like a nice way for a college student to unwind during a summer vacation. But when Chloe Naquin spent the summer of 2024 in Puerto Rico, it was not a relaxing vacation.
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Zhang Receives International Society for Heart Research Lifetime Achievement AwardSeptember 3, 2024by Hannah Buckelew Jianyi “Jay” Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, T. Michael Gillian Goodrich Endowed Chair of Engineering Leadership, Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently delivered the North American Section of the International Society for Research (NAS-ISHR) Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture in Long Beach, California, on Friday, August 23.
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Wang Receives AHA TPA Grant to Study Heart Failure in Type 2 DiabetesAugust 29, 2024by Hannah Buckelew Yajing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Basic and Translational Research and professor in the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a three-year $300,000 TPA grant from the American Heart Association for her project, titled, “Targeting Cardiokine Dysfunction for Treating Diabetic Ischemic Heart Failure.”
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Bhat Lab Publishes in GeneticsAugust 22, 2024by Hannah BuckelewSeveral studies in vertebrates indicate that T-box proteins are important in regulating a multitude of cellular processes in development and disease across species. The loss of function for T-box genes is known to cause heart, ectodermal and nervous system defects.
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Dobbs Earns NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium ScholarshipJuly 30, 2024by Hannah BuckelewChandlor Dobbs, an undergraduate senior in biomedical engineering, a member of UAB’s Honor College, and a participant in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, is a recipient of NASA’s Alabama Space Grant Consortium Scholarship.
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UAB represented at 2024 AHA BCVS meeting in ChicagoJuly 29, 2024by Hannah BuckelewFive faculty members and several trainees from the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), alongside others from the Department of Pathology and Cardiology, attended the annual Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions in Chicago, Illinois July 22-25.
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Alabama Space Grant Consortium & NASA EPSCoR awards scholarships and fellowships to nine UAB studentsJuly 18, 2024Nine University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been awarded NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium scholarships and fellowships.
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UAB Medicine graduates eighth cohort of Institute for LeadershipJuly 9, 2024UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office recognized 16 individuals in its eighth cohort of Institute for Leadership at a graduation ceremony on June 26, 2024.
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Zhang Presents Cardiovascular Research in Hanoi, VietnamJune 28, 2024By Christina CroweJianyi “Jay” Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., T. Michael and Gillian Goodrich Endowed Chair of Engineering, recently visited Hanoi, Vietnam, June 19-21, where he delivered a seminar on “Neonatal Heart Regeneration and Graft Associated Arrythmia in Large Mammals.”
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Dubey Receives AHA Career Development AwardJune 27, 2024by Hannah BuckelewPraveen K. Dubey, Ph.D., a member of the laboratory of Prasanna Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), has been awarded a Career Development Award by the American Heart Association (AHA) and has been promoted to instructor in BME.