NIH Awards Kheradvar $3.3 Million for New Cardiac Imaging Technology to Study Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but serious condition in which high blood pressure occurs in the arteries that carry blood from the heart to the lungs.
W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to UCI Team to Study Cartilage Formation
The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $1 million to an interdisciplinary team of researchers at UCI to study the formation and health of cartilages, tissues that are vital to skeletal structures.
Four Biomedical Engineering Faculty Named AIMBE Fellows
Four UCI biomedical engineering faculty – Elliot Botvinick, Michelle Digman, Chang Liu and Wendy Liu – are among 152 medical and biological engineers who were inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows Class of 2022.
Berns Awarded International Society for Optics and Photonics Gold Medal
Michael Berns, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2022 SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, Gold Medal.
At the Heart of O.C.’s Medical Technology Ecosystem
National Institutes of Health experts say that people who are fortunate enough to survive a brush with COVID-19 may go on to suffer poor cardiovascular health in the future because of the infection.
Cheerleading for Science: Q&A with Postdoctoral Scholar Wendy Brown
Cheerleading or science, pom poms or microscopes? Does one have to choose? Not according to Wendy Brown, UCI postdoctoral scholar in biomedical engineering and former NFL cheerleader.
