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Healthcare Technologies

microscopic image of ebola virus

Ebola

Spotting Ebola in the Crowd

January 28, 2019

BU biomedical engineers Ji-Xin Cheng (left) and Lu Lan (right) monitor a tablet that displays AcouStar breast cancer tumor lumpectomy guidance to surgeons.

Biomedical Engineering

Breast Cancer Beacon

October 16, 2018

energy sparks ignition

Accolades

Eight Researchers Receive BU Ignition Awards

April 5, 2018

Prototype of an HPV point-of-care diagnostic test in the lab of Catherine Klapperich

Engineering

How Point-of-Care Testing Will Transform Healthcare

April 5, 2018

Virginia Best discusses spatial hearing

Hearing Sciences

Follow Your Ears

March 8, 2018

Dr. Kathy Morgan, a professor at Sargent College and Dr. Tyone Porter, pose for a photo

Engineering

Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles

March 6, 2018

MRI scan brain images showing parts of the brain activated by hearing human speech

Neuroscience

Kilachand Center’s New MRI Scanner Yields Outstanding Data

February 12, 2018

Professor Joyce Y. Wong and Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk

Accolades

AAAS Names Two BU Faculty as 2017 Fellows

December 11, 2017

Wenxin Feng (GRS’19), left, and the team at Pison Technology are working on a device to help people with ALS. Photo by Gretchen Ertl (COM’95)

Healthcare Technologies

Wearable Tech to Help People with ALS

November 30, 2017

First prototype for an optical chemotherapy monitor, one of the main projects funded by CFTCC.

Biomedical Engineering

It Takes Teamwork

April 7, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

Edward Damiano holds a prototype of the iLet bionic pancreas he developed during an acceptance speech for the Boston University Innovator of the Year Award

Diabetes

Bionic Pancreas Passes Critical Science Hurdle

February 7, 2017

Professor Mark Grinstaff and Marlena Konieczynska in the Grinstaff Lab at Boston University

Medicine

A Better Way to Treat Burns from BU’s Grinstaff Lab

December 20, 2016

Photo of Ed Damiano and son

Diabetes

A Father’s Mission

September 12, 2016

Elise Morgan, professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Engineering

Bonecrusher

January 22, 2016

Catherine Klapperich

Biomedical Engineering

Demand for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

October 30, 2015

Gerald Kidd and Jayaganesh Swaminathan study the cocktail party problem: why it’s so hard to distinguish one voice in a crowd. Can musical training help?

Hearing Sciences

The Cocktail Party Problem

October 5, 2015

ekg heartbeat trace

Health Care Technologies

Big Data and Improving Health Care

August 3, 2015

Carrie Des Roches, a research assistant in the Aphasia Research Laboratory and one of the study’s authors (right), with Damon.

Neuroscience

The Upside of Screen Time

March 24, 2015

BU graduates Marc Albanese (left) and Yaopeng Zhou, founders of Smart Vision Labs

Photonics

Vision Quest

March 11, 2015

Vision Quest