Clemson Bioengineering

Dylan Richards Awarded National Institutes of Health T32 Renewal

Dylan Richards

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 […]

Ryan Borem Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Ryan Borem

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/

Joey Wilson Named Schwarzman Scholar, Will Study in China with 128 Other Scholars

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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/

Dabo Swinney All In Foundation Supports Bioengineering’s Brian Booth

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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. Dan Simionescu Awarded NIH R56 Grant for Tissue Engineering and Regeneration of the Aortic Root

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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 […]