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Chandra Mohan has a theory about the development of lupus nephritis, the leading cause of lupus-related deaths. If he’s right, there may already be a treatment. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack practically any part…
Researchers Exploring Treatment for Lupus-Based Kidney Disease
Sergey Shevkoplyas wants to make one thing perfectly clear: Blood transfusions save millions of lives every year. Without them, routine surgeries would become life threatening. They’re one of modern medicine’s absolute…
Blood Transfusions Made Safer through $1.8M Research Grant
Trinidad and Tobago honored Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and native son Ravi Birla this past weekend as one of its top medical researchers. Birla received the silver Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso Award for Medical…
Bioartificial Heart Developer Honored, Featured in Television Interview
Ravi Birla, associate professor of biomedical engineering with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, is one of the world’s leading researchers in the development of bioartificial hearts and heart components.…
BME Professor Honored by Home Country for Heart Research
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant to make brain surgery for patients with severe cases of Parkinson’s disease safer and more effective. The grant goes to Nuri Ince, an…
Parkinson’s Surgery Research Wins NSF Grant
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is a co-investigator on grants covering surviving a submarine escape and understanding the basic mechanisms of embryonic heart development. While the two…
Imaging Expert Researching Submarine Escapes, Heart Development
One of the newest faculty members with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a major grant to help develop new diagnostic tools for female incontinence by using his patient-specific modeling and non-…
Professor Wins NIH Award for Incontinence Research
Who better to lead an aerospace engineering program than a retired astronaut with an engineering Ph.D. and a passion for education? That’s a very brief resume of Bonnie Dunbar, a veteran of five space shuttle missions, professor…
Retired Astronaut, Engineering Educator to Lead Aerospace Engineering Program
Members of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering met with Turkey’s Minister of Health during his recent visit to Houston. Mehmet Muezzinoglu came to the city earlier this…
BME Faculty Meet with Turkish Health Minister
The Cullen College of Engineering shined at last night’s University of Houston Faculty Awards Banquet, with college professors taking home five research and scholarship awards, the career teaching award and the university’s…
Engineering Takes Top Honors At Faculty Awards Ceremony
Bonnie Dunbar, leader of the UH STEM Center and professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering, will join the ranks of Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride as the latest member of the Astronaut…
Bonnie Dunbar, Leader of UH STEM Center, Inducted to Astronaut Hall of Fame
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is proud to present our Q&A session with Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., NAE. This video serves as a special supplement to the print version of our Q&A session with Dr.…
Video: Q&A With Dr. Bonnie Dunbar
Ahmet Omurtag, an expert in computational neuroscience with experience developing new clinical tools in an entrepreneurial setting, has joined the biomedical engineering department of the University of Houston Cullen College of…
BME Welcomes Computational Neuroscience Expert
Bonnie Dunbar, a retired astronaut, National Academy of Engineering Member and alumna of the Cullen College of Engineering, has joined the University of Houston as leader of a new STEM Center. The center will build upon programs…
College Welcomes Bonnie Dunbar, Retired Astronaut & NAE Member
It sounds pretty annoying, actually. A puff of air focused into a small spot and blown directly into the eyeball. But what’s annoying could drastically improve eye care, and even end up saving the vision of some people.…
Focused Air Puff to the Eye Promises Improved Vision Care
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has named Metin Akay, founding chair and John S. Dunn Endowed Chair Professor of the Cullen College’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, to its inaugural group of IEEE…
Akay Honored by Two Engineering Associations
If Howard Gifford has his way, physicians will be forced out of a large area of medical imaging research. Frankly, that’s probably how they want it. Gifford, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the UH Cullen…
Professor Working to “Replace Clinicians” in Imaging Research
One day, people in need of a heart transplant won’t have to wait for a donor organ to become available. Instead, hearts (and other organs) will be grown the lab, often out of the patient’s own cells. This seemingly science-…
Researcher Developing Lab-Grown Heart Tissue
Associate Professor Howard Gifford joins the UH Department of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His research focuses on the medical imaging process with the goal of improving chances of…
UH Department of Biomedical Engineering Welcomes New Faculty Member
Metin Akay, chair of the Cullen College’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently served as a keynote speaker at the first Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering. Held in the emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab…
Akay Delivers Keynote Address at Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering