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A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is developing an imaging device that could increase the success of patients attempting to have children through in vitro fertilization. Kirill Larin,…
Imaging Device To Benefit Patients of In Vitro Fertilization
Junior Austin Head spends 11 weeks investigating nanotechnology through the NanoJapan Program It is not uncommon for undergraduate engineering students to seek out research opportunities over summer break, nor is it unusual for…
Biomedical Engineering Student Conducts Research Overseas
For as long as the U.S. Navy has had scuba divers, submarines and airplane pilots, it has had to deal with the effects of decompression sickness. This condition, which affects those who experience sudden, drastic changes in the…
Navy Taps UH Researcher to Develop Diagnostic Tool
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has nearly completed the renovation of its Biomedical Engineering Core Research Lab. The renovation of the lab was spearheaded by…
Mechanical Engineering Renovates Biomedical Lab
Ralph Metcalfe, professor of mechanical engineering and deputy director of the UH biomedical engineering program, and his graduate student, Aishwarya Mantha, are working on a new tool to improve brain aneurysm treatment. Metcalfe…
Physicians and Engineers Pool Resources to Prevent Stroke
Several members of the Cullen College of Engineering were honored at the annual research day of the University of Houston chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society and global honor society of scientists and engineers.…
Student Researchers Honored at Sigma Xi Research Day
Biomedical engineering undergraduate students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering gained ‘real world’ experience while participating in a research-intensive summer internship program at The Methodist Hospital. The students…
UH Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program a Success
The American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) awarded a $500 fellowship to University of Houston biomedical engineering junior Hassan Khalil at their 51st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. last weekend. The ten…
UH Biomedical Engineering Junior Wins Fellowship for Model of Human Vascular System
The Biomedical Engineering Program, which was launched last fall by the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, is quickly attaining a full staff with director Matt Franchek naming Ralph Metcalfe and Peter Vekilov as…
Metcalfe, Vekilov Named Deputy Directors for Biomedical Engineering Program
Plans to begin a new Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Houston cleared one last administrative hurdle recently when the Texas Coordinating Board granted its approval for a new undergraduate program in the field…
New Biomedical Engineering Program Set to Launch at UH in Fall
In support of the University of Houston's new biomedical engineering program, the Houston-based John S. Dunn Research Foundation has committed $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship. The grant that creates the first John…
Dunn Foundation to Give UH $500,000 for Biomedical Engineering Endowed Professorship
UH took another important step toward establishing a new degree program during Wednesday's Undergraduate Council meeting. Larry Williams, biology professor and chairman of the council's committee on degree programs, presented a…
UH Undergraduate Council OKs Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Two recent meetings between academic leaders at the Texas Medical Center and the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have laid the foundation for an unprecedented new relationship between engineering and medicine…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Forging New Relationships with Texas Medical Center Institutions in Biotechnology Research