[{"id":738,"date":"2023-12-21T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=738"},"modified":"2025-03-19T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:36:07","slug":"student-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/student-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Student News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Student bioengineering team wins national competition for U-Sert medical technology<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Four\n recent Clemson University graduates will collect a national award this \nmonth for creating medical technology designed to help nurses monitor \nbabies for urinary tract infections.
Reagan Hamm, Allie Beiter, \nMaddie Thomas and Anna Wichmann were students last academic year when \nthey developed the U-Sert, which adheres to diapers and changes colors \nto signal when the child has an infection. (See the team\u2019s pitch video here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nine Clemson students and alumnae awarded graduate research fellowships<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Seven\n graduating Clemson University seniors and two recent alumnae are \nreceiving three years of financial support towards their graduate \ndegrees through Graduate Research Fellowships provided by the National \nScience Foundation (NSF), with an additional student receiving an \nhonorable mention.
The national fellowship program is highly \ncompetitive, with more than 12,000 applications every year. Recipients \nreceive an annual stipend of $37,000 towards their graduate program and \nan additional $12,000 cost of education allowance that covers their \ntuition and fees. They also benefit from professional development \nopportunities offered to fellowship recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate research recognized at Focus on Creative Inquiry poster forum<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Hundreds\n of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to \nshare their research at the 18th annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI)\n Poster Forum on April 5-7. Projects from every college were presented \nwith topics ranging from archaeology to Parkinson\u2019s Disease to food \nsafety to high-performance computing.
Creative Inquiry is Clemson\u2019s \nnationally recognized cross-disciplinary undergraduate research and \nexperiential learning program, that gives students the opportunity to \nwork in small groups with a faculty mentor to answer challenging \nquestions and solve real-world problems.
The event allows students \nto showcase their work, reflect on their experiences and to gain skills \nthat will help them communicate their work to the general public. The \nthree-day event featured 240 student projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clemson University bioengineers win two national titles at the Collegiate Inventors Competition<\/h3>\n\n\n
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A\n team of Clemson University bioengineering students that has been \nwinning accolades for its novel medical device triumphed in its biggest \nnational test so far, taking first place in the undergraduate category \nand receiving the Arrow Electronics People\u2019s Choice Award at the \nCollegiate Inventors Competition.
The all-woman team is composed of \nJordan Suzanna Cole, Kathleen Fallon, Karly Faith Ripple and Allison \nReichart. They created the CatheSure, a device designed to prevent \nunnecessary surgery in hydrocephalus patients.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GEM Fellow Simeon McKelvey had his pick of graduate schools. He chose Clemson University<\/h3>\n\n\n
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One\n of the country\u2019s newest GEM Fellows is a bioengineering Ph.D. student \nwho said he was accepted to seven schools and chose Clemson University \nbecause the associate professor who became his advisor made an effort to\n get to know him.
Simeon McKelvey is one of six new GEM Fellows at \nClemson. The National GEM Consortium provides fellowships to master\u2019s \nand Ph.D. students to help pay for their education and to provide access\n to some of the nation\u2019s top engineering and science firms.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STEM ALL-IN helped Sevrina Tekle choose Clemson University for her Ph.D. program<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Sevrina\n Tekle knew she wanted to attend graduate school but wasn\u2019t sure where \nuntil she received an invitation to visit Clemson University as part of \nSTEM ALL-IN, a program that allowed her to take a weekend to visit \ncampus, all expenses paid.
\u201cOnce I visited, that solidified that I \nwanted to come to Clemson,\u201d she said. \u201cQuite literally, right as the \nweekend ended, I submitted my application.\u201d
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Clemson students named finalists for Pay it Forward<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Clemson\n students Trina Pham of Mauldin, S.C., Micah Jordan of Easley, S.C, and \nAiden Tombuelt of Spartanburg, S.C., were named finalists for their \nproject The Party Enamel. The project explores ways to improve dental \noutcomes for rural South Carolinians.
Pay it Forward is a \nscholarship competition that seeks to recognize current rural challenges\n in the state and propose viable solutions. Each team will split $1,000 \nscholarships. The winning team will go on to win the top award of \n$5,000.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lauren Davis selected for Astronaut Scholarship<\/h3>\n\n\n
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If\n education were a spaceship, Lauren Davis of Clemson University would be\n launching into the wild blue yonder with three big rockets propelling \nher upwards.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021 Bioengineering Award Recipients<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The\n College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science as well as the \nDepartment of Bioengineering, have completed the award selections for \n2021. We are proud to announce the winners of these awards and \ncongratulate them for their hard work and accomplishments.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Seven\n Clemson University students have been awarded the 2021 National Science\n Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive grant \naimed at building future scientific and engineering leaders. Six others \nreceived Honorable Mentions.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘Ultimate Clemson Ambassador<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Babinchak\n arrived at Clemson with an interest in biology and engineering, as well\n as the drive, resilience and attitude to be successful. Clemson \nprovided the knowledge, opportunities and mentors to help her discover \nher strengths and identify her ultimate career goal: medical device \nsales.
She recently accepted a summer internship with Arthrex, a \nglobal medical device company that develops products and procedures to \nadvance minimally invasive orthopedics. She\u2019ll be a Sterilization and \nBiosafety intern at the company\u2019s headquarters in Naples, Fla.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timmy Samec Awarded Hollings Lowvelo Fellowship<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The\n Hollings Cancer Center awards go to those with the greatest potential \nto become independent cancer researchers and compete for extramural \ngrants.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonthius 2020 ORS Spine Section Award Winner<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Daniel\n Bonthius, an MD\/Ph.D. student in Hai Yao\u2019s lab, noted, \u201cWe are working \non a new type of implant to treat children with very bad spinal \ndeformity.\u201d His presentation was for Rib-hook Construct For Pediatric \nHyperkyphosis And Kyphoscoliosis.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty, Students represent BIOE at ABRCMS<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Scientists (ABRCMS), one of the largest conferences for underrepresented minorities in STEM, was held in Anaheim, CA, on November 13-16. Clemson\u2019s undergraduates, graduates, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and students joined over 4,650 attendees representing more than 350 colleges and universities. For the third year in a row, BIOE participants served as research presenters, recruiters, session chairs, and poster judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIOE Students Distinguish Themselves in 3-day HERO Pitch Event<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Clemson\u2019s\n Hayek Center for the Business of Prosperity held a 3-day event to help \nClemson students incorporate business principles into their community \noutreach and international aid projects. The program included lectures \nby renowned philanthropists, business leaders and scholars, and \nsmall-group mentoring by graduate students. Student organizations that \nbest-incorporated business principles into their charitable projects \nwere eligible for HERO Prizes ranging from $2,000 – $5,000.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xinyue \u201cLucy\u201d Lu, a graduate student researcher, wins BioPro Award<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Lu\n is developing a novel bio-adhesive mesh system for hernias. She \nproposes this new point-of-care technology to combine hydrogel adhesive \nand polymer surface modification, which will be part of a $3 billion \nindustry.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two of six Clemson students chosen to present research at ACC Meeting of the Minds are bioengineers.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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A\n select group of Clemson University undergraduates have just returned \nfrom Louisville, Kentucky, where they participated in a Meeting of the \nMinds with other Atlantic Coast Conference students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference is held each spring to celebrate undergraduate \nresearch and creativity and to provide an opportunity for sharing ideas \nand collaboration.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Josh Walters selected for GRA<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Josh\n Walters, a student of Dr. Jeremy Mercuri, has been selected for a \nGraduate Assistantship by the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium. The\n Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) is designed to help meet the \ncontinuing needs of the aeronautics and space effort by increasing the \nnumber of highly trained scientists and engineers in aerospace, space \nscience, space applications and space technology. The GRA Program awards\n assistantships for graduate study leading to research-based masters or \ndoctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering.\n Josh will be investigating the effects of prolonged spaceflight on \nintervertebral disc health using an explant culture model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SFB Star Awardees: Ryan Borem, Hetal Maharaja!<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The\n Society For Biomaterials recognizes recognize research excellence and \ndevelops future leaders within the SFB through the Student Travel \nAchievement Recognitions (STARs). STAR recipients are selected according\n to these procedures: SFB Special Interest Group officers will review a \nlist of the SIG Student Recognition applicants who applied for the STAR \nAwards when submitting their meeting abstracts, along with their \nabstract titles and scores. Each SIG will then nominate several students\n to the Society’s Education and Professional Development Committee for \nconsideration. The Educational and Professional Development Committee \nwill review the nominations and select the STAR recipients. Those \nabstracts recommended by the SIGs, but not selected by the Educational \nand Professional Development Committee will receive honorable mentions. \nThe awardees will receive a certificate and monetary award of $250; the \nHonorable Mentions will receive a certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two BIOE Students Recognized by NSF<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The\n National Science Foundation conferred its Graduate Research Fellowship \naward on Aniqa Chowdhury, a graduate student in Dr. Delphine Dean\u2019s lab.\n NSF conferred Honorable Mention on Timothy Samec, a graduate student in\n Dr. Angela Alexander-Bryant\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research \nFellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity \nof the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The \nprogram recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are \npursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, \ntechnology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. \nThe GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of \nindividuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant \nresearch achievements in STEM or STEM education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Orthopaedic Research Society recognizes Kyle Snethen<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Kyle Snethen, a student of Dr. Melinda Harman, was awarded the Force & Motion<\/a>\/ORS\n Young Scientist Travel Grant to attend the ORS annual meeting. Kyle \npresented his abstract, “Sensitivity of Calculated Ligament Tensions to \nDifferences in Intraoperative Knee Kinematics: A FE Computational \nStudy.” Terms of the award included that the recipient present on \nmulti-axis force measurement and testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Society for Biomaterials recognizes work in Dr. Jeremy Mercuri\u2019s lab<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Dr.\n Jeremy Mercuri\u2019s lab received an honorable mention from the Society for\n Biomaterials for the work they presented at the society\u2019s annual \nmeeting in April. The lab\u2019s abstract, \u201cStem cell seeded biomimetic \nnucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus implants promote living repair of \ndegenerative intervertebral discs in sheep\u201d was nominated as an \noutstanding contribution to the Society for Biomaterials 2018 Annual \nMeeting by the Special Interest Group Chairs of the Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Bioengineering Students Recognized by NSF<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Seniors\n Lauren Pruett and Jacqueline Rohde were awardees in the National \nScience Foundation\u2019s Graduate Research Fellowship competition, and \ngraduate student Meredith Owen was selected for honorable mention.
Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Tale of Pandas, Stem Cells, Problem-Solving and Medicine: Irene Cheng’s Boren Fellowship<\/h3>\n\n\n
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I chose to study bioengineering because I really appreciated the hands-on aspect of this field. From conducting lab work, tinkering with electrical components, and working on my problem-solving capabilities, bioengineering challenges me everyday, which I love!
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Student bioengineering team wins national competition for U-Sert medical technology Four recent Clemson University graduates will collect a national award this month for creating medical technology designed to help nurses monitor babies for urinary tract infections. Reagan Hamm, Allie Beiter, Maddie Thomas and Anna Wichmann were students last academic year when they developed the U-Sert, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,342,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[16180],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-research","category-students"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/files\/2023\/12\/Mosaic-photos-2021-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":737,"date":"2023-12-21T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=737"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:52:58","slug":"clemson-news-2022-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/clemson-news-2022-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson News 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Harmonizing with nature: Clemson University and partners share up to $13.6 million to solve maritime challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Clemson\n University is leading an international team that is trying an \ninnovative tack to solve an age-old maritime challenge, and researchers \nsaid the solution involves working with nature instead of fighting it.
\n The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing up \nto $13.6 million over four years for the project. Partnering \ninstitutions are Duke University, the University of Essex, the \nUniversity of Copenhagen and Pompeu Fabra University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Student bioengineering team wins national competition for U-Sert medical technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Four\n recent Clemson University graduates will collect a national award this \nmonth for creating medical technology designed to help nurses monitor \nbabies for urinary tract infections.
Reagan Hamm, Allie Beiter, \nMaddie Thomas and Anna Wichmann were students last academic year when \nthey developed the U-Sert, which adheres to diapers and changes colors \nto signal when the child has an infection. (See the team\u2019s pitch video here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SC-TRIMH receives major grant for pioneering research into musculoskeletal health<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A\n biomedical research center that is headquartered at Clemson University \nand has resulted in more than 400 publications in its first five years \nis entering its second phase with an $11.13-million grant.
The center is called South Carolina Translational Research Improving Musculoskeletal Health (SC-TRIMH)<\/a>.\n It is funded through a National Institute of General Medical Sciences \nprogram aimed at establishing Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nine Clemson students and alumnae awarded graduate research fellowships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Seven\n graduating Clemson University seniors and two recent alumnae are \nreceiving three years of financial support towards their graduate \ndegrees through Graduate Research Fellowships provided by the National \nScience Foundation (NSF), with an additional student receiving an \nhonorable mention.
The national fellowship program is highly \ncompetitive, with more than 12,000 applications every year. Recipients \nreceive an annual stipend of $37,000 towards their graduate program and \nan additional $12,000 cost of education allowance that covers their \ntuition and fees. They also benefit from professional development \nopportunities offered to fellowship recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clemson University recognizes its newly tenured and promoted faculty for 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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At\n the end of the Spring semester, the University announced the tenure and\n promotion of 126 faculty. Access details on each faculty member by \nvisiting their linked information.
Congratulations to the five Bioengineering faculty who received tenure and promotion! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate research recognized at Focus on Creative Inquiry poster forum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Hundreds\n of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to \nshare their research at the 18th annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI)\n Poster Forum on April 5-7. Projects from every college were presented \nwith topics ranging from archaeology to Parkinson\u2019s Disease to food \nsafety to high-performance computing.
Creative Inquiry is Clemson\u2019s \nnationally recognized cross-disciplinary undergraduate research and \nexperiential learning program, that gives students the opportunity to \nwork in small groups with a faculty mentor to answer challenging \nquestions and solve real-world problems.
The event allows students \nto showcase their work, reflect on their experiences and to gain skills \nthat will help them communicate their work to the general public. The \nthree-day event featured 240 student projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clemson University\u2019s Jeremy Mercuri appointed to leadership positions in partnership with Prisma Health<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jeremy\n Mercuri has been appointed deputy director of the Clemson University \nBiomedical Engineering Innovation Campus (CUBEInC) and faculty fellow at\n the Clemson University School of Health Research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postdoctoral fellow Cherice Hill launches career at Clemson University with $1-million research project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Clemson\n University postdoctoral fellow Cherice Hill is leading a $1-million \nresearch project aimed at better understanding why a type of jaw \ndisorder is more common among some groups than others.
Hill said \nthat she has wanted to work in higher education since she was first \nintroduced to research in high school, and the funding is helping her \nmake the transition to a tenure-track faculty position. She is looking \nfor her first faculty job and said Clemson is on her short list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harmonizing with nature: Clemson University and partners share up to $13.6 million to solve maritime challenge Clemson University is leading an international team that is trying an innovative tack to solve an age-old maritime challenge, and researchers said the solution involves working with nature instead of fighting it. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,445,342,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty","category-research","category-students"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":696,"date":"2023-11-15T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=696"},"modified":"2023-12-12T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:18:47","slug":"professor-of-practice-dave-shalaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/professor-of-practice-dave-shalaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor of Practice Dave Shalaby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Success in business is achieved by seeing and taking a path others fail to deem relevant.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Dave Shalaby took on the role of president of Poly-Med, Inc. after having served on the board of directors for eight years. Under Dave\u2019s leadership, the company has grown into a vertically integrated design, development, and custom manufacturer of bioresorbable medical device and pharmaceutical products. Before stepping into his role at Poly-Med, Inc., Dave was founder and president of InSource Consulting in 1997, providing strategic consulting services to financial service companies to improve process and business efficiencies through the use of process analysis methodologies.<\/p>\n

During his tenure, Dave personally led major merger and acquisition operational integrations for several Fortune 100 insurance companies and has overseen countless key strategic efforts in support of the InSource clients.<\/p>\n

He grew InSource Consulting into a multimillion dollar specialty management consulting firm aimed at providing strategic support services to large companies within the healthcare, financial service, and federal government sectors. InSource Consulting was acquired by Virtusa, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTU) in 2009.  At that time, he joined their leadership team as Senior Vice President responsible for their Insurance practice.<\/p>\n

This unique mix of strategic and business acumen has led to significant growth at Poly-Med, Inc. Several key initiatives encouraging the team to achieve elegant solutions are advancing the company to the next level, while staying true to the legacy of Dave\u2019s father, Dr. Shalaby W. Shalaby.<\/p>\n

Education: David holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Technology from Purdue University (1992) and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago (1994).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Success in business is achieved by seeing and taking a path others fail to deem relevant. In 2010, Dave Shalaby took on the role of president of Poly-Med, Inc. after having served on the board of directors for eight years. Under Dave\u2019s leadership, the company has grown into a vertically integrated design, development, and custom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":742,"date":"2023-05-04T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=742"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:47:14","slug":"20-million-nsf-investment-will-change-health-care-with-the-use-of-ai-clemson-to-lead-five-year-adapt-sc-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/20-million-nsf-investment-will-change-health-care-with-the-use-of-ai-clemson-to-lead-five-year-adapt-sc-project\/","title":{"rendered":"$20 million NSF investment will change health care with the use of AI. Clemson to lead five-year ADAPT-SC project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Clemson-led coalition of South Carolina researchers has formed to \nmodernize health care diagnostics and treatment in South Carolina with \nthe use of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Science Foundation announced a $20 million, five-year \ninvestment in a multi-institutional project called Artificial \nIntelligence-Enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and \nTransformative Health Care in South Carolina or ADAPT-SC. Funding comes \nfrom the National Science Foundation\u2019s Established Program to Stimulate \nCompetitive Research (NSF EPSCoR) Research Infrastructure Improvement \nTrack-1 Award, which bolsters their overall goal to improve the research\n and development competitiveness of researchers and institutions within \nEPSCoR jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clemson University will lead a statewide team of researchers from 11 \ninstitutions who will work closely with industry to advance AI-enabled \nmedical devices and to train an AI-ready workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translational research and economic development will be the \ncornerstones of ADAPT-SC. With an exceptional network of collaborators, \nADAPT-SC is well positioned to reach all areas of South Carolina with \nlife-saving health care technologies and a skilled workforce for the \nfuture. I want to thank our partners for joining this effort and NSF for\n investing in this cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Two
Health\n care providers face numerous challenges diagnosing disease, monitoring \ninfections from traumatic injuries and predicting likely outcomes of \nvarious treatment plans, but AI can remove some of those challenges. \nBruce Gao, ADAPT scientific lead and South Carolina SmartState Endowed \nChair of biofabrication engineering at Clemson, is researching solutions\n to these challenges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Collaborators include the University of South Carolina, the Medical \nUniversity of South Carolina, Benedict College, Claflin University, \nSouth Carolina State University, College of Charleston, Francis Marion \nUniversity, The Citadel, Winthrop University and Tri-County Technical \nCollege. To advance translational research, ADAPT also will work with SC\n Bio, a statewide economic development organization and life-sciences \nindustry association with nearly 200 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHealth innovation has long been a strength at Clemson, and we \ncontinue to build a strong platform in AI research. ADAPT will bring \nthese two critical fields together to improve the quality of care and \nlife in South Carolina,\u201d said Tanju Karanfil, principal investigator on \nthe project and Clemson vice president for research. \u201cUltimately, \npatients and their families will be the beneficiaries of what we believe\n will be life-saving research.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has three primary goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Build research capacity in AI-enabled biomedical devices in \nstrategically identified areas to transform SC\u2019s health care system, \nparticularly in underserved areas;<\/li>
  2. Build a diverse talent pool in the field of biomedical AI through \ninnovations in education and workforce development from K-12 through all\n levels of higher education; and<\/li>
  3. Foster interdisciplinary collaborations and academic\u2013industrial \npartnerships by establishing research, education, and \ntechnology-transfer integrated programs.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Examples of ADAPT research projects include incorporating AI into \ndiagnostic devices to illuminate some of the hidden underlying causes of\n cardiovascular disease, accurately detect wounds in intensive care \nunits or predict the likely outcome of peripheral artery disease. \nDigital twins of patients will also be used to test AI-enabled therapy \nand rehabilitation plans for lung-cancer patients. ADAPT also will \nevaluate AI trustworthiness and device security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cHealth care providers face numerous challenges diagnosing disease, \nor monitoring infections from traumatic injuries, or predicting likely \noutcomes of various treatment plans. It is an incredibly difficult job, \nbut AI can remove some of those challenges,\u201d said Bruce Gao, ADAPT \nscientific lead and South Carolina SmartState Endowed Chair of \nbiofabrication engineering at Clemson. \u201cIn particular, AI can provide \nexpedient information that will help physicians create a care of plan \nspecific to each patient\u2019s condition and medical history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To advance the research, EPSCOR funds will support hiring five \ntenure-track faculty members and eight postdoctoral researchers \nthroughout the state, as well as adding new computing and other \ninfrastructure. The project involves more than 30 faculty members across\n the institutions and is expected to support training for more than 100 \nnew Ph.D. students and 400 undergraduate students. ADAPT will conduct \noutreach to encourage K-12 students throughout the state to explore \ncareers in science, technology, engineering and math, and provide \ntraining to K-12 STEM educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n\n\n\n

    This material is based upon work supported by the National \nScience Foundation under Grant No. 2242812. Any opinions, findings and \nconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of \nthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National \nScience Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A Clemson-led coalition of South Carolina researchers has formed to modernize health care diagnostics and treatment in South Carolina with the use of AI.\u00a0 The National Science Foundation announced a $20 million, five-year investment in a multi-institutional project called Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Health Care in South Carolina or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/files\/2023\/12\/DSC00233-Edited-1130x636-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":724,"date":"2023-05-01T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=724"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:04:18","slug":"2023-departmental-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/2023-departmental-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Departmental Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

    Clemson Bioengineering is very proud to announce recipients of the 2023 College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences awards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Award Winners<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Robert W. Moorman Award<\/strong> \u2013 Vaishnavi Kanduri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Blue Key Academic and Leadership Award<\/strong> \u2013 Aniela Nozka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Phi Kappa Phi Certificate of Merit<\/strong> \u2013 Grace Haller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n\n\n\n

    The 2023 Bioengineering Awards Ceremony was held at the Madren Center\n Owen Pavilion on April 21, 2023. Undergraduate and graduate award \nwinners were presented by Dr. Dan Simionescu and Dr. Alexey \nVertegel.\u00a0The Department of Bioengineering Awards Committee is also \npleased to announce the following 2023 Departmental Award winners:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Undergraduate Award Winners<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Larry S. Bowman Outstanding Bioengineering Junior Award<\/strong> \u2013 Sebastian Saenz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Barry W. Sauer Outstanding Bioengineering Undergraduate Researcher Award<\/strong> \u2013 Caroline Peak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jonathan Black Undergraduate Leadership in Bioengineering Award<\/strong> \u2013 Allison Jacob<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    C. William Hall Undergraduate Departmental Honors Award<\/strong> \u2013 Micah Jordan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    R. Larry Dooley Entrepreneurship Award<\/strong> \u2013 Rayyan Alam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Eugene M. Langan III Service Award<\/strong> \u2013 Grace Haller and Shreya Thammana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Melissa McCullough Diversity Undergraduate Champion Award<\/strong> \u2013 Maria Chavez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Poly-Med Outstanding Bioengineering Senior Award<\/strong> \u2013 Amanda Murray<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    S. W. Shalaby Outstanding Bioengineering Sophomore Award<\/strong> \u2013 Audrey Wessinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Samuel F. Hulbert Award<\/strong> \u2013 Dr. Richard diMonda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n\n\n\n

    Graduate Award Winners<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    R. Larry Dooley Entrepreneurship Award<\/strong> \u2013 Devansh Shukla<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Michael Zebuhr Award for Research<\/strong> \u2013 Dylan Chitwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Melissa McCullough Diversity Graduate Champion Award<\/strong> \u2013 Tykia Blakney<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Outstanding Graduate Bioengineering Teaching Assistant Award<\/strong> \u2013 Vishal Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Eugene M. Langan III Service Award<\/strong> \u2013 Jessica Boulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Page Morton Hunter Bioengineering Graduate Researcher Award<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Kurtz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Austin T. Moore Leadership Award<\/strong> \u2013 Megan Pitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Clemson Bioengineering is very proud to announce recipients of the 2023 College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences awards! College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Award Winners Robert W. Moorman Award \u2013 Vaishnavi Kanduri Blue Key Academic and Leadership Award \u2013 Aniela Nozka Phi Kappa Phi Certificate of Merit \u2013 Grace Haller The 2023 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-students"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":744,"date":"2023-02-09T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:49:59","slug":"anne-wyllie-bioengineering-distinguished-speaker-event-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/anne-wyllie-bioengineering-distinguished-speaker-event-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Wyllie, Bioengineering distinguished speaker event recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

    Recap written by Madison Bean<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Clemson University recently had the privilege of hosting Anne Wyllie,\n a research scientist from the Yale School of Public Health as part of \nthe Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series, where she presented\n on saliva as a reliable sample type for sustainable surveillance and \noutbreak response efforts. The Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar \nSeries in Bioengineering brings distinguished speakers from across the \ncountry to Clemson to speak about research, challenges and innovation in\n bioengineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"
    Anne Wyllie, PhD<\/strong>
    Yale School of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    A New Zealand native, Wyllie is a world renown microbiologist whose \nwork led to the development of the SalivaDirect test, a U.S. Food and \nDrug Administration-approved, open-source saliva PCR test that helped to\n shape how the Clemson University Research and Education in Disease \nDiagnosis and Intervention (REDDI) Lab set up its own saliva tests. \nEarly on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Wyllie\u2019s work identified saliva as a \nreliable sample type for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in people suspected\n of COVID-19 infection. Saliva samples can alleviate many of the \nbottlenecks encountered in the mass testing strategies required to \ncontrol continuing outbreaks. In an effort to address these issues, \nWyllie validated and optimized saliva for SARS-CoV-2 detection, which \nled to the development of SalivaDirect testing. It is a simple, scalable\n and cost-effective method to help alleviate SARS-CoV-2 testing demands.\n Wyllie\u2019s SalivaDirect initiative remains devoted to providing public \nhealth guidance, advancing saliva diagnostics and enabling the safe \nre-opening of communities worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During her visit to Clemson, Wyllie met with faculty and staff at \nClemson involved with the COVID-19 response teams and from a wide range \nof departments and colleges on campus. This led to interesting \nmultidisciplinary discussions on different strategies for public health \nscreening and how to leverage the infrastructure and resources built for\n the pandemic to further help the university and community as COVID-19 \nbecomes an endemic disease. Wyllie also met with Clemson undergraduate \nstudents and graduate students to discuss post-graduation plans and \ngoals for their future. While talking with students, Wyllie also \ndiscussed current flu research being conducted at the REDDI Lab. In \naddition to talking about the new science for public health, Wyllie also\n discussed educational pipelines preparing the next generation workforce\n to address emerging and continuing community healthcare needs. Her talk\n in the Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar in the Watt Family \nInnovation Center was attended by over 100 faculty, students, and staff.\n For more information about the Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar\n Series, visit here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recap written by Madison Bean Clemson University recently had the privilege of hosting Anne Wyllie, a research scientist from the Yale School of Public Health as part of the Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series, where she presented on saliva as a reliable sample type for sustainable surveillance and outbreak response efforts. The Page Morton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":721,"date":"2023-02-09T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=721"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:47:59","slug":"serving-the-south-carolina-medtech-industry-new-biomedical-regulatory-and-quality-science-certificate-supplies-home-grown-skilled-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/serving-the-south-carolina-medtech-industry-new-biomedical-regulatory-and-quality-science-certificate-supplies-home-grown-skilled-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving the South Carolina MedTech Industry: New Certificate Supplies Skilled Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

    Serving the South Carolina MedTech Industry: New Biomedical Regulatory and Quality Science Certificate Supplies Home-Grown Skilled Workforce<\/p>\n

    As South Carolina\u2019s biomedical industry advances and grows, in-state \nemployers have been struggling to find qualified in-state candidates who\n can fill regulatory and compliance roles within their company. This in \nturn forces them to expand their search out of state, which consumes \nmore time and money to find a candidate, if one can even be found.  <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Clemson University\u2019s Department of Bioengineering is meeting the need\n for in-state regulatory and quality medical device and pharmaceutical \nindustry experts head-on by offering a new Biomedical Regulatory and \nQuality Science Certificate. This certificate is offered in \ncollaboration with Pathway for Patient Health, a global leader \nspearheading innovative and accessible education in quality science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Approved by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, the graduate certificate spearheaded by Dr. Jeremy Mercuri, John Witherspoon Gilpin, M.D. \u201982 Endowed Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Biomedical Engineering degree program, is now offered to graduate students and current industry professionals. \u201cThis program integrates well with our industry focused M.Eng. curriculum and provides students and their employers with significant value in terms of meeting a growing demand in the medtech industry\u201d, Mercuri said. Subject-matter experts from the medtech industry and Clemson faculty who have substantial experience and expertise in regulatory and quality science deliver the curriculum.\u00a0 Using real-world case studies, participants not only learn \u201chow\u201d quality and regulation are implemented in industry, but \u201cwhy\u201d both systems are crucial for the development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Students pursuing the Biomedical Regulatory and Quality Science \ncertificate learn industry best practices concerning regulatory and \nquality standards in relation to pre-clinical studies and clinical \ntrials, as well as the design, development, and manufacturing of safe \nand effective medical devices and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    According to Dr. Laura McCallum, Director of the certificate program,\n this certificate connects students with instructors who have industry \nexperience providing to them the knowledge and skills to manage \nregulated biomedical products worldwide.\u00a0 \u201cThis program will help \nproduce professionals who will know how to make regulatory decisions to \nassure competitiveness of their employer\u201d, McCallum said. \u201cRegulation \nand quality are the bedrock of industry- no matter what role you have in\n a company. Both are crucial to not only the success of the company, but\n more importantly, ensuring that your product is safe for a patient and \nwill actually do what it intended to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    McCallum, who recently joined the bioengineering faculty from the \nbiopharma manufacturing industry to lead the program, explained that the\n 14 credit hour certificate courses encompass much more than an overview\n of regulation and quality as it is now, but also has students \nunderstand these standards need to be evaluated and updated \nconstantly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Among instructors, Jennifer Mercuri, regulatory science expert and \ncourse instructor, has been involved in clinical trials and pre-clinical\n assessment for medtech devices for numerous years. \u201cWhat really stood \nout to me when talking with the industry expert course instructors was \ntheir drive to have the students to not only walk away with an \nunderstanding of current quality and regulatory standards, but to be \nable to critically assess those standards to protect patients,\u201d Mercuri \nsaid. \u201cAs new technology rapidly develops, we need regulation and \nquality to evolve faster. The only way it will is if we have a specially\n trained workforce with that ability and mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Drs. McCallum and Mercuri envision that the Biomedical Regulatory and\n Quality Science Certificate will streamline the hiring process, by \nallowing biomedical companies to better identify candidates during \ninterviews that have completed specialized education in regulatory and \nquality science. This will also provide the opportunity to employers to \noffer to their current workforce continuing education to meet \nmarketplace demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For more information about this certificate, contact BIOE@clemson.edu<\/a>. Clemson students interested in this certificate can find information here: https:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/cecas\/departments\/bioe\/academics\/certificate.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Serving the South Carolina MedTech Industry: New Biomedical Regulatory and Quality Science Certificate Supplies Home-Grown Skilled Workforce As South Carolina\u2019s biomedical industry advances and grows, in-state employers have been struggling to find qualified in-state candidates who can fill regulatory and compliance roles within their company. This in turn forces them to expand their search out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,342,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-research","category-students"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/files\/2023\/12\/brqscertificate-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":746,"date":"2022-12-31T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=746"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:53:35","slug":"clemson-news-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/clemson-news-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson News 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

    John Witherspoon Gilpin donates $1 million to Clemson University\u2019s Department of Bioengineering<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    The\n Clemson University alumnus who is donating $1 million to establish a \ndistinguished professorship in bioengineering is a talented radiologist,\n medical school faculty member and avid marathon runner.
    John \nWitherspoon Gilpin said he made the donation because he wanted to \nsupport research programs and other work in Clemson\u2019s Department of \nBioengineering and to encourage its relationship with Prisma Health in \nparticular and medicine in general. .
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Faculty members honored for excellence in teaching, research and enhancing the Clemson Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Eleven\n faculty members received awards from the College of Engineering, \nComputing and Applied Sciences in an Oct. 26 celebration at the Owen \nPavilion on the shores of Lake Hartwell. .
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    Clemson University bioengineers win two national titles at the Collegiate Inventors Competition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    A\n team of Clemson University bioengineering students that has been \nwinning accolades for its novel medical device triumphed in its biggest \nnational test so far, taking first place in the undergraduate category \nand receiving the Arrow Electronics People\u2019s Choice Award at the \nCollegiate Inventors Competition.
    The all-woman team is composed of \nJordan Suzanna Cole, Kathleen Fallon, Karly Faith Ripple and Allison \nReichart. They created the CatheSure, a device designed to prevent \nunnecessary surgery in hydrocephalus patients.
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    GEM Fellow Simeon McKelvey had his pick of graduate schools. He chose Clemson University<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    One\n of the country\u2019s newest GEM Fellows is a bioengineering Ph.D. student \nwho said he was accepted to seven schools and chose Clemson University \nbecause the associate professor who became his advisor made an effort to\n get to know him.
    Simeon McKelvey is one of six new GEM Fellows at \nClemson. The National GEM Consortium provides fellowships to master\u2019s \nand Ph.D. students to help pay for their education and to provide access\n to some of the nation\u2019s top engineering and science firms.
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    Innovation Maturation Fund provides grants for healthcare innovations for pain and diabetes management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Researchers\n at Clemson University and Prisma Health have received grants that will \nhelp them find new ways to treat cancer and manage chronic pain and \ndiabetes.
    Brian Booth, assistant professor in the department of \nbioengineering, and Prisma Health physician John O\u2019Connell plan to test a\n new method of cancer treatment called oscillating electric fields. This\n new method is a Food and Drug Administration-approved cancer treatment \nstill in its infancy and is being used with other therapies such as \nchemotherapy to improve survival rates of patients with advanced \ncancers. This treatment emits a low-intensity oscillating electric field\n that works to prevent cancer cells from multiplying. To generate and \nmonitor these specifically-tuned electric fields, the team has designed,\n built and tested a device capable of delivering treatment over a broad \nrange of electric field intensities.
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    STEM ALL-IN helped Sevrina Tekle choose Clemson University for her Ph.D. program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Sevrina\n Tekle knew she wanted to attend graduate school but wasn\u2019t sure where \nuntil she received an invitation to visit Clemson University as part of \nSTEM ALL-IN, a program that allowed her to take a weekend to visit \ncampus, all expenses paid.
    \u201cOnce I visited, that solidified that I \nwanted to come to Clemson,\u201d she said. \u201cQuite literally, right as the \nweekend ended, I submitted my application.\u201d
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    New research underscores South Carolina\u2019s growing strength as a biomedical research hub<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    South\n Carolina is strengthening its position as a hub for high-impact \nbiomedical research with a new multi-million-dollar project that \nundergirds the long-standing partnership between Clemson University and \nthe Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and loops in crucial \nsupport from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research \n(NIDCR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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    Martine LaBerge receives South Carolina Life Sciences Hall of Fame Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Martine\n LaBerge of Clemson University is the newest recipient of the South \nCarolina Life Sciences Hall of Fame Award, the latest in a string of \nhigh honors recognizing her contributions to the bioengineering \ncommunity in the state and beyond.
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    New simulators could help medical professionals prepare for the day it really counts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Singapogu,\n an assistant professor of bioengineering, works with a team of graduate\n students and collaborators from around the country to develop new \nsimulators aimed at taking medical education to the next level.
    Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    John Witherspoon Gilpin donates $1 million to Clemson University\u2019s Department of Bioengineering The Clemson University alumnus who is donating $1 million to establish a distinguished professorship in bioengineering is a talented radiologist, medical school faculty member and avid marathon runner. John Witherspoon Gilpin said he made the donation because he wanted to support research programs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":730,"date":"2022-11-15T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/?p=730"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:46:21","slug":"dr-terri-bruce-recipient-of-the-2022-innovision-technology-development-award-for-company-victory-exofibres-llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/bioengineering\/dr-terri-bruce-recipient-of-the-2022-innovision-technology-development-award-for-company-victory-exofibres-llc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Terri Bruce recipient of the 2022 InnoVision Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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