Duke BME Magazine News

By drawing on the depth and breadth of expertise across Duke, Amanda Randles hopes to transform the university into a powerhouse in computational medicine

Two emerging programs at Duke provide valuable lessons on how to build experiences for a diverse set of local students to help expand the STEM pipeline.

How a collaboration spanning departments and institutions brought clarity to the mystery of glassfrog transparency.

By studying the location of individual cells within tissues, new faculty member John Hickey decodes how cells interact and organize

New faculty member Emma Chory combines evolution, cellular engineering and robotics to advance basic science and identify new targets for cancer therapies

The Duke BME Post-Doctoral Entrepreneurial Fellowship program is a new resource for graduates who want to launch companies based on their PhD research. For inaugural fellows Christian Viehland and Stefan Roberts, the program was instrumental in their transition from student to entrepreneur.

Through recruitment, mentorship and community events, the committee aims to make Duke BME more inclusive for faculty, staff and students

Duke Engineering’s new Wilkinson Building gives students space—and support—to craft innovative tools that can translate into entrepreneurial success

Junjie Yao uses light and sound to see deeper into the human body

Marc Sommer develops tools and tactics to illuminate neural pathways across the brain

Between cleaning up ultrasound images, developing non-invasive diagnostic tools and sparking a new subfield of ultrasound imaging, Gregg Trahey, Kathy Nightingale and Mark Palmeri have pushed the boundaries of biomedical imaging

Duke BME researchers are pioneering new approaches to turn raw data into valuable insights to detect disease and guide treatment