Duke BME Magazine
The Alumni Issue | Spring 2019
From the Chair
Dear colleagues and friends,
Physicians. Entrepreneurs. Venture Capitalists. Researchers. Professors. In Duke BME, we prepare our students to succeed in a variety of different career paths, both inside and outside the field of biomedical engineering. With an immersive and hands-on curriculum, a plethora of practical research opportunities and partnerships, and the aid of prestigious faculty and other mentors, our students graduate from Duke BME with an impressive array of skills that allow them to make meaningful contributions in their ideal careers.
In this issue of Duke BME Magazine, we highlight the success of
just a few alumni in their first decade after graduating from Duke BME, including those who have accepted faculty positions at prestigious universities, alums who accepted job positions at both startups and well-established biomedical companies, and new entrepreneurs who used their BME training to address problems plaguing society.
As one of the top-ranked biomedical engineering programs in the United States, we’re helping to create the next generation of engineers who can tackle issues we face across the spectrum of medicine. We hope you enjoy reading about the work of our impressive alumni as they continue to blaze new trails in the field of biomedical engineering.
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Chair
Duke Biomedical Engineering
Making the Next Wave of Imaging Tools for Cancer Diagnosis
Motivated by her mother’s death from breast cancer, Muyinatu Bell (Duke BME PhD’12) is now advancing medical imaging as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins
Engineering Solutions to Foodborne Illness
Christine Schinedler and Dutch Waanders's startup PathSpot aims to make restaurant kitchens cleaner, and safer, for consumers
Oh, the Places Grads Go
Whether their career ladders lead to industry, academia or entrepreneurship, Duke BME gives PhD students a leg up on post-grad life
Personalizing the Master's Degree
Duke BME’s MS and MEng programs enable students to customize their learning experience and chase down opportunities
Past Issues
Fall 2018
A Year of Real-World Design
Centered on collaboration with Duke Medicine clinicians, Duke BME's re-imagined design course challenges students to design solutions to real patients' problems
A Path for Post-Grad Success
An industry-focused BME Design Fellowship prepares students for jobs after graduation
From Cell Cultures to Mass Markets
Mike Lynch's design course adds an entrepreneurial flair to the standard design formula
Design on a Global Scale
From Uganda to Guatemala, Duke BME design projects make an impact that extends beyond the classroom
Spring 2018
An Old Space for New Ideas
The BRiDGE initiative for faculty, alumni and student startups opens in downtown Durham
Innovative Scholars
An overview of faculty startups in Duke BME
A New Class of Entrepreneur
Students and researchers tackle new challenges through their own startups
Fall 2017
Engineering a New Narrative
Duke biomedical engineers are creating unique tools geared toward women's health to address global health disparities
Collaborating Across Continents
Duke BME professors challenge students to design Solutions with global communities in mind
Five Days of Fieldwork
BME students test a diagnostic tool in Liberia