Dzirasa named to the National Academy of Medicine
Kafui Dzirasa is a psychiatrist and engineer examining the role of brain electricity in mental health disorders
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Design Health Team Places on International Top 20 Shortlist for 2021 James Dyson Award
With a device to make cardiovascular procedures safer, Duke’s ArchGuard team was recognized out of 2,000 applicants
Cell-Filled Pouch Creates Temporary “Chimeras” to Treat Disease
Device protects human liver cells producing critical biomolecules for six months in mice
Expanding Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Post-Docs
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.
DEIA Committee Advances Diversity Efforts Across Duke BME
Through recruitment, mentorship and community events, the committee aims to make Duke BME more inclusive for faculty, staff and students
A Pipeline from Makerspace to Marketplace
Duke Engineering’s new Wilkinson Building gives students space—and support—to craft innovative tools that can translate into entrepreneurial success
Tracking Life Through Photonic Highways
Junjie Yao uses light and sound to see deeper into the human body
Decoding the Circuitry of the Primate Brain
Marc Sommer develops tools and tactics to illuminate neural pathways across the brain
Meet Duke BME’s Innovative Ultrasound Trio
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
A New Study Points to the Power of Wearables to Predict Even Presymptomatic Infections, Suggesting Use One Day Against COVID-19
BME Professors Jessilyn Dunn and Geoffrey Ginsburg infected willing participants with common cold and flu viruses to provide the most rigorous evidence yet that wearable health monitors can predict infections, even before a person starts experiencing symptoms.
Pranam Chatterjee: Engineering the Reproductive System, One Protein at a Time
New faculty member Pranam Chatterjee uses AI to design proteins that promote, preserve and prolong reproductive health
Christensen Family Gift Endows Center for Student Design Education at Duke
Naming honors gift by the family of Clayton Christensen, the management thinker who coined ‘disruptive innovation’