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Dr. Chen X. Chen’s team has been awarded over $2 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund a 5-year study on the role of the vaginal microbiome in dysmenorrhea. In this innovative project, Dr. Chen is leading an interdisciplinary team of clinician scientists, basic scientists, and experts in bioinformatics and machine learning.…

FDA is providing a federal liaison to C2SHIP to accelerate the availability of regulatory science tools for evaluating non-invasive wearable sensors, medical device interoperability, physiologic closed-loop control technology, and other medical device technologies that can deliver high quality health care at-home. Dr. Christopher Scully has been selected as the FDA liaison because of his expertise…

U.S. News & World Report Nerve Stimulation Device Might Ease Long COVID Symptoms — Continued coverage of study led by Dr. Bijan Najafi, research director of the Center for Advanced Surgical & Interventional Technology at UCLA Health. The study was largely funded by the National Science Foundation, with the Quell TENS device supplied free of charge to…

Dr. Anuradha Godavarty, a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received the 2024 Faculty Award of Excellence. Dr. Godavarty is a Professor for the BME department, and her work and research interests are in near-infrared optical imaging technologies. With this award, Dr. Godavarty is being recognized for significant achievements in scholarly pursuits, under…

Bijan Najafi, Ph.D., MSc, Director of the Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP) for Baylor College of Medicine and Professor of Surgery and Director of the Digital Health and Access Center (DiHAC), has been appointed as a Federal Advisory Committee member on the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board Subcommittee on…

The Biomedical Engineering program at University of North Dakota has been accepted into a multi-university research group that is working to develop healthcare technologies for in-place care, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation to advance those efforts. Read more

1.     The 2023 Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator: Translation from Proof of Concept to Widespread Clinical Practice Award, American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), Washington, DC, April 2023  2.     First Prize, Research, “Brooks BM, Brooks B, Tower DE, Simon J, Tran TT, Armstrong DG, Shih JD. “The Diabetic Foot-Pain-Depression Cycle: A Retrospective…

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Bijan Najafi, Ph.D., M.Sc., Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine to its College of Fellows.  About AIMBE  AIMBE is the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical and biological engineering to society. AIMBE’s mission is to recognize…

Mizzou has become the fifth university to join the Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) consortium focused on helping patients monitor and manage their health at home. Read more at Mizzou

Dr. Bijan Najafi and his team at Baylor College of Medicine are part of the newly established Precision Aging Network, which will focus on how and why individuals experience aging differently. Led by the University of Arizona, the network was established through a five-year, $60 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.  The multisite…

Mizzou Engineering’s Marjorie Skubic has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on faculty at the University of Missouri System. Read more at MUNews

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the USC Limb Preservation Program became the first podiatric surgeon to be awarded the 2020 USC Stevens Center Innovation Award. The award, which acknowledges top USC innovators, was given to Armstrong for his patent, “Method for Treating Subjects Suffering From Chronic Ulcers”, which was Licensed earlier…

A multi-institution partnership that includes Caltech aims to develop clinically validated technologies to remotely monitor patient health Read more at CaltechNews

Baylor College of Medicine is one of four sites named as a recipient of a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers. Read more at BCMNews

Keck Medicine of USC is working with Caltech, the University of Arizona, and Baylor College of Medicine to bring wearable fitness device data into the clinical space. Read more at USCNews

A multi-institution team led by the University of Arizona aims to develop clinically validated wearable technologies to remotely monitor patient health. Read more at UANews