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UW Bioengineering Alumnus Kamal Shah leads smartwatch study to detect cardiac arrest
Kamal Shah, Ph.D., a graduate of UW Bioengineering, is the lead author of a major new study that explores how smartwatches could help detect cardiac arrest.
Events
Six Bioengineering students named to 2024 Husky 100
UW named six Bioengineering students as a part of [...]
Patrick Boyle and Princess Imoukhuede receive 2024 ITHS Awards
UW Bioengineering Assistant Professor Patrick Boyle and Bioengineering Professor [...]
Bioengineers Connect: An evening of networking and inspiration
Bioengineers Connect, a UW Bioengineering initiative, brought together alumni and students for a networking dinner to share experiences and aspirations.
Featured Publications
Macrophage-targeted drugamers with enzyme-cleavable linkers deliver high intracellular drug dosing and sustained drug pharmacokinetics against alveolar pulmonary infections
Patrick Stayton and colleagues demonstrate the versatility of the drugamer platform for engineering the intracellular pharmacokinetic profiles and its strong therapeutic activity in treating pulmonary intracellular infections.
In situ expansion of engineered human liver tissue in a mouse model of chronic liver disease
Stevens et al. fabricated artificial liver seeds in biomaterials that were able to grow after implantation into mice in response to liver injury, and began to carry out normal liver functions. The work offers an approach to study organ development and a possible strategy for organ engineering.
Dramatic enhancement of the detection limits of bioassays via ultrafast deposition of polydopamine
The researchers report a simple, universal "add-on" technology (EASE) that converts the ordinary sensitivities of common bioassays to extraordinary ones. They demonstrate that EASE facilitated increased sensitivity of ELISA-based detection of HIV, and enabled the direct visualization in tissues of the Zika virus and of low-abundance biomarkers for neurological diseases and cancer immunotherapy.
