Dr. Joseph Singapogu has designed a simulator and a virtual mentoring system to train nurses and technicians to find a fistula and measure a needle’s motion, force, angle and location.
The NIH T32 helps ensure a diverse, highly trained workforce is available to meet the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. The T32 provides a strong foundation in research design, methods, and analytic techniques; training to conceptualize research problems; experience in research, presentation, and publication; interaction with the scientific community; and enhanced understanding of the […]
A United States Army combat veteran and current BIOE Ph.D. student, Ryan’s research focuses on the development of a tissue engineering scaffold to assist in the repair and regeneration of intervertebral discs in people suffering from back pain. http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/national-science-foundation-awards-research-fellowships-to-7-clemson-graduate-students/
BIOE and Honors College senior Joey Wilson has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. Often referred to as the Rhodes Scholarship to China, the Schwarzman will send 129 men and women from 30 countries to study for one year at Tsinghua University in Beijing. http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-senior-joey-wilson-awarded-schwarzman-scholarship-to-china/
Recently appointed assistant professor of bioengineering Dr. Brian Booth received another vote of confidence on October 17, 2016. For the third time, Tiger football coach Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation funded Booth’s proposed breast cancer research. The foundation has been behind Booth from his first studies showing that tannic acid, a naturally occurring anticancer […]
Dr. William Richardson was recently awarded a Scientist Development Grant from the A. H. A. to support highly promising beginning scientists in cardiovascular and stroke research. —http://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/bioe/index.html–linking button is not working
Dr. Dan Simionescu, the Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Professor of Bioengineering, was recently awarded an R56 grant from the National Institutes of Health. This $410k, “high priority, short term project award” from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will support efforts to regenerate heart valves using scaffolds, stem cells and bioreactors. The research team […]
Sarah Harcum leads a Clemson team as part of a new national institute to advance U.S. leadership in biopharmaceuticals. http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/commerce-awards-70m-to-biopharmaceutical-institute-with-clemson-researchers/
Dr. Guigen Zhang shares his vision on the possibility of a biological revolution and his belief in solving worldwide problems through convergence. http://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/bioe/news-events/index.html
Dr. Yao plays a key role in bringing together some of South Carolina’s leading minds for bioengineering research. http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/hai-yao-appointed-to-new-ernest-r-norville-endowed-chair-in-biomedical-engineering/