BME News

• Catherine and James Galbraith receive $1M from W.M. Keck Foundation
• Congratulations to Joe Gray, Summer Gibbs, and Wassana Yantasee for being highlighted in the OHSU Innovates 2021 Impact Report!
• Jennifer Eng, Ph.D. won a podium presentation award for her talk, "Examining  prognostic features of the breast tumor immune microenvironment with multiplex imaging" at the 2021 National Cancer Institute Cancer Systems Biology Consortium Junior Investigator Meeting
• Haylie Helms awarded T32 funding from the School of Dentistry for her project "Biophysical guidance of Osteogenesis"
• OHSU Racial Equity and Inclusion (REI) funding and BME department matching funds have been awarded to BME Researchers Clara Mosquera-Lopez/Peter Jacobs and Khanh Nguyen.
• Zheng Xia, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, describes in Nature Biotechnology a way to zero in on the subpopulations of cells within a tumor that are driving important disease behaviors.
• Peter Jacobs & Clara Mosquera-Lopez New grant awarded - OCTRI ‘IDEA Gap funding’ in collaboration with OHSU Dr. Peter Schulman of Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine & Stephen Heitner of Cytokinetics, Inc., ‘Development of a Novel Smart-Phone-Based Stethoscope Device that uses Machine Learning to Detect, Diagnose, and Determine the Severity of Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease”
• Monica Hinds New Grant award OCT21 – Dr. Monica Hinds awarded an R21 with Oasis Pharmaceuticals LLC  “Lipid Receptor GPR31 as a Target for Anti Thrombotic and Stroke Therapy”
• Karina Nakayama New 'Junior Investigator Grant Award' OCT21 - "Repair of composite muscle-bone injury using decellularized muscle allografts and rehabilitative exercise"
• The Oregon Bioengineering Symposium takes place Nov. 11-12 | OHSU Now
• Owen McCarty elected as Biomedical Engineering Society Council of Chairs 'Long Range Planning Committee'
• OHSU startup selected for Pacific Northwest Startup Showcase | OHSU Now
• Congratulations to Rahul Narayan, a second-year PhD student mentored by Peter Jacobs in the AIMS lab who received the best paper (first place) award for the Diabetes Technology Society 2021 Student Research Award for his abstract titled ‘Predicting postprandial glucose excursions with macronutrient content using an interpretable random forest augmented by a digital twin ODE model’.  He received a $1,000 cash award and free conference registration to the Diabetes Technology  Meeting and the invitation to present his work on Saturday November 6 in a podium presentation during the conference.
• Clara Mosquera-Lopez New grant award (Jacobs Lab) SEP21 – “Development and Evaluation of Personalized Explainable Machine Learning Models to Predict and Prevent Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes”
  Wassana Yantasee new grant award JUL21 – NIH SBIR in collaboration with Dr. Yantasee’s startup company PDX Pharmaceuticals “Novel Nano-immunotherapy for Treatment of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer”
• Peter Jacobs new grant award SEP21 – U01 in collaboration with Dr. Coby Martin at Pennington Biomedical Research Center – Louisiana State University “A planning project to pilot test and optimize dietary approaches to slow aging and design a long-term trial”
• Caroline King's work on the the causes of death within 12 months after hospital discharge of opioid users was published by the Journal of Addiction Medicine
• Nick Calistri won a poster award at the recent NCI CSBC/PS-ON/BD-STEP Junior Investigator Meeting
• Jenny Eng  won a podium award at the recent NCI CSBC/PS-ON/BD-STEP Junior Investigator Meeting
• Wassana Yantasee New grant award JUL21 – NIH SBIR in collaboration with Dr. Yantasee’s startup company PDX Pharmaceuticals “In Situ Tumor Vaccination with a Nano-oligo Therapeutic to Induce Whole-body Antitumor Immune Response”
• Summer Gibbs New grant award AUG21 (SBIR) in collaboration with both Dr. Michel Nederlof at Quantitative Imaging Systems & Dr. Missy Wong at OHSU “Ultra-high content analyses of circulating and solid tumor cells: A diagnostic reference system for disease burden”
• Monica Hinds New grant award JUL21 – R01 in collaboration with Dr. Luis Bertassoni “Micro engineering vascularized and innervated bone-like scaffolds as an alternative to autologous bone grafts”
• Novella Bates New grant award AUG21 – NRSA F31 Training Grant “The Role of Coagulation Factor XII in Medical Device-induced Thrombosis”
• Summer Gibbs New grant award AUG21 – New R01 “Nerve-Specific Fluorophores for Improved Nerve Sparing during Prostatectomy using the Clinical Fluorescence Guided Surgery Infrastructure”
• Monica Hinds New grant award AUG21 in collaboration with Dr. Rodefeld at the University of Indiana “Systematic examination of biomaterial surface modifications for cardiovascular device applications 'Fontan pump'”
• Summer Gibbs New grant award AUG21 - NSF Small Business Innovation Research Program awarded in collaboration with Dr. Gibb’s startup company Inherent Targeting “Near Infrared Nerve-Specific Fluorophores for Fluorescence-Guided Surgery”
• Summer Gibbs New grant award JUN21 – NIH R44 in collaboration with Dr. Gibbs startup company Inherent Targeting “Clinical Translation of Near Infrared Nerve-Specific Fluorophores for Nerve-sparing Prostatectomy“
• Peter Jacobs New grant award JUL21 – SBIR Phase II in collaboration with Dr. Jacob’s startup company PDT “Development of a miniaturized single-port automated insulin delivery system utilizing a glucose sensing catheter, ultra-concentrated insulin, and an optimized control algorithm”
• Ashley Anderson (Summer Gibbs/Missy Wong co-mentorship) New grant award JUL21 – T32 Training grant from Medical Scientist Training Program of Oregon Health & Science University
• Dr. Zuckerman has been awarded a 4 year renewal by the NSF (National Science Foundation).  Research will focus on ‘Quantitative Exploration of Molecular Machine Mechanisms.’
• Dr. Nakayama was one of four selected recipients out of 14 for the Collins Medical Trust award. Research will focus on ‘Regenerative Skeletal Muscle Engineering using Patterned Scaffolds to Promote Healing of Adjacent Bone.’
• Congrats to BME student Tony Zheng for receiving an F30 Individual National Research Service Fellowship
• Dr. Jacobs was awarded an NIH R01 award. Research will focus on ‘Enabling Fully Automated Closed Loop Control in Type 1 Diabetes Through an Artificial Intelligence Meal Detection Algorithm and Pramlintide.’
• Dr. McCarty has received the inaugural Douglas Strain Professorship
• Dr. Zuckerman was awarded an NIH R01 award in coordination with OSU & U of O. Research will focus on 'Multiscale Characterization of a Unique Class of Duplex, Multivariant Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Systems.'
• Congratulations to Kenton Gregory for leading a new project supported by BARDA
• BME student Nathan McMahon receieves OSA Student Paper Award
• Congratulations to Novella Bates and Stephanie Reitsma on their American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship award.