Innovation & Impact | 2016-17 BioE eNews Year in Review
In this issue: Anniversary Update | Research News | Faculty [...]
Daniel Chiu named co-recipient of NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grant
Daniel Chiu, UW joint professor of chemistry and bioengineering, along with UW Chemistry Assistant Professor Joshua Vaughan, seeks to develop radical new technologies for high-resolution mapping of brain tissue.
2017 Faculty Promotions: Albert Folch, Xiaohu Gao, Wendy Thomas, Deok-Ho Kim, Anthony Convertine
The faculty promoted for the 2017-18 academic year demonstrate the department's strength in diverse areas of research, including disease diagnostics and therapeutics, regenerative medicine and protein engineering.
Jennifer Davis, Hao Yuan Kueh, Alec Smith receive 2017 UW ISCRM Tietze Scientist Research Awards
Assistant Professors Jennifer Davis and Hao Yuan Kueh have received $50,000 John H. Tietze Stem Cell Scientist Awards, designed to help propel novel stem cell and regenerative medicine to competitiveness for external funding. Acting Instructor Alec Smith has received the Jaconette L. Tietze Young Scientist Ressearch Award, which offers $25,000 to senior postdoctoral fellows nearing independence, or early stage junior faculty.
BioE and ChemE faculty team receives College of Engineering Strategic Instruction Initiative award
BioE/ChemE's team will launch an interdepartmental health engineering course for first year direct to college (DTC) students that explores multidisciplinary engineering approaches to improving and promoting human health.
Engineered human liver tissue “seeds” blossom after transplant, offer an alternative strategy to organ transplantation
Researchers discovered that a "seed" of human liver and supporting cells "blossomed" to 50 times its original size in mice. The work could lead to clinical solutions for organ disease and failure, and serve as an alternative to whole organ transplant.