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Jerome Fox elevated to senior member of prestigious National Academy of Inventors

March 26, 2024

Jerome Fox, BME faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI senior membership recognizes faculty, scientists and administrators for their contributions to innovation, including patents, licensing, commercialization and technologies aimed at benefiting society.

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CU Boulder researchers tackle HIV-related cognitive decline

March 11, 2024

Assistant Professors Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind, Biomedical Engineering Program faculty, are on a collaborative mission to explore solutions for mitigating cognitive decline in individuals living with HIV. This decline can be caused by both the virus itself and the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat it.

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With space travel comes motion sickness. These engineers want to help

March 1, 2024

In amusement park-like experiments on campus, aerospace engineers at CU Boulder are spinning, shaking and rocking people to study the disorientation and nausea that come from traveling from Earth to space and back again.

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BME Director Corey Neu, Lab Venture Challenge Recipient

Nov. 17, 2023

Sixteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.5 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC). Judges from CU Boulder’s entrepreneurial network heard Shark-Tank-style pitches across two nights, one for innovations in biosciences and another for physical sciences and engineering.

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Scientists develop faster, cheaper way to count microbes, discover new antibiotics

Nov. 8, 2023

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works as much as 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use more than 15-fold and substantially decreases the cost and carbon footprint of biomedical research.

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Jayaram and team win IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics

Oct. 31, 2023

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Two ChBE professors selected for prestigious AICHE “35 Under 35” award

Oct. 17, 2023

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Neu tapped as new Director of Biomedical Engineering Program at CU Boulder

Oct. 9, 2023

Corey Neu The Biomedical Engineering Program at CU Boulder marks its fifth year with a change in leadership. Director Mark Borden , who helped grow the program into a thriving community of interdisciplinary researchers and students since its inception in 2018, has passed off the reins to Professor Corey Neu...

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Q&A: Novella Keeling, Teaching Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program

Oct. 4, 2023

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Rentschler's startup company improves endoscopy procedures with patented balloon technology

Sept. 11, 2023

Aspero Medical , a CU spin-out company co-founded by Professor Mark Rentschler , has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell the Ancora-SB small bowel balloon overtube that incorporates the company’s patented Pillar micro-texture balloon technology. The Ancora-SB device is used for small bowel...

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