Featured: Zheng Xia, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering, member of the Quantitative Oncology program at the Knight Cancer Institute, and member of the Center for Biomedical Data Science, has received a $1 million Prostate Cancer Data Science Award from the Department of Defense to create a single-cell resolution map of cancer cells and their tumor microenvironment to help researchers better understand and treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), a deadly form of the disease with limited treatment options. 

By integrating data from over a million cells and using a novel analysis tool, the three-year award will help Xia identify cellular subpopulations associated with different disease characteristics, leading to improved diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mCRPC.

With this award, Xia is a principal investigator on four and a co-investigator on nine major R01-level grants from the National Institutes of Health and other external funding sources.

Featured: Carolyn Schutt Ibsen, Ph.D., BME assistant professor, was recognized as a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering by the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) at the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society meeting held in October. Her research, detailing the development of a new coaxial 3D bioprinting technique for remote-controlled gene delivery, was conducted with lead author and Ph.D. student Mary (Kylene) Lowrey; their paper is featured in the October Young Innovators Issue of CMBE. 

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