Bioengineering

MES, Project Lead the Way
Ten high school students from Hamilton Career Center in Seneca, S.C., were mentored by Drs. John DesJardins and Delphine Dean and their students in the center’s Project Lead the Way Biomedical Sciences program. The students, who attended the 2012 annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, were featured in PTLW’s national magazine. January, 2013

Cardiovascular Research
Honghai Liu, formerly a student in Dr. Bruce Gao’s lab and presently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cincinnati,  was awarded Editor’s Choice for his paper in the February 1, 2013 edition of Cardiovascular Research, a publication of Oxford University Press.

AIMBE FELLOW
Dr. Dan Simionescu has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Other fellows in the department are Drs. Burg Giuseppe-Eli, LaBerge, Latour, Vyavahare, and Swaja.

GSH/CU Institute for the Advancement of Health Care
Dr. David Kwartowitz’s proposed research has been selected for Seed Grant funding by the Greenville Hospital System/Clemson University institute. 

NSF I-CORPS
Dr. John DesJardins, his student Riley Csernica, and David Orr, Clemson alumnus and COO of Kiyatek, were awarded an NSF I-CORPS grant to commercialize Ms. Csernica’s design for a functional shoulder brace.

LAUNCHPADSC
Eric Lucas and Breanne Przestrzelski, students of Dr. John DesJardins, were finalists in the competition to design business concepts.

Collegiate Inventors Awards: Senior Design Students Place 3rd
Riley Csernica, Meredith Donaldson, Chelsea Ex-Lubeskie, and Kaitlin Grove, guided by Dr. John DesJardins, designed the winning Hi-Impact Shoulder Stabilization Brace.

Top 25 Hottest Articles
Implantable Enzyme Amperometric Biosensors, an article by Christian Kotanen, a student of Dr. Anthony Guiseppi–Elie, was named 14th among the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Recycling and Reprocessing Medical Devices
Clemson has established the first program to train engineers to recycle and reprocess medical devices. The certificate program is led by Dr. Melinda Harman

Clemson Biomaterials Day Symposium
Bionanotechnology: Integrating Nanostructures into Biomaterials, organized by Dr. Frank Alexis, was sponsored by the department and the Society For Biomaterials.

First Place in National Undergraduate Design Competition
A senior-design team directed by Dr. John DesJardins won the annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance BMEStart undergraduate design competition for its project AssureFit, a novel chest-tube anchoring device. Team leader Breanne Przestrzelski and teammates Carlyn Atwood, Lauren Eskew, and Brennen C. Jenkins partnered with Greenville Hospital System pediatric surgeons Drs. John Chandler and Robert Gates to develop the innovative device.

Clemson University Opens CUBEInC
Clemson University Biomedical Engineering Innovation Campus, Clemson’s new 30,000-square-foot research facility.

Research Spinoff Commercializes Medical Simulator
MedUSim Solutions emerged from research led by Drs. Jiro Nagatomi and Delphine Dean.

Associate Chairs
Dr. Ken Webb was named Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs. Dr. Hai Yao was named Associate Chair for CU-MUSC Bioengineering Program.

Biomedical Microdevices
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie has been named associate editor and a member of the Editorial Board of Biomedical Microdevices: BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology.

Entrepreneurship: Tiger Bioanalytic
Dr. Guigen ZHANG launched a company aimed at commercializing innovative genetic sensing technology emerging from Clemson University research.

National Institutes of Health F31
Ben Whatley, a student of Dr. Martine LaBerge, has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows by NIH.

Gates Foundation and Global Health
The Global Health Frontiers of Science and Engineering Symposium held on April 27, 2012, in the Clemson House, was sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Organized by Dr. Delphine Dean, the symposium included speakers from Engineering World Health, Global Giving, the Gates Foundation, Madaktari Africa, Fluor, and AnMed Health.

National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association: Emily Ongstad, a student of Dr. Martine LaBerge and Dr. Rob Gourdie (of MUSC’s Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center), has been awarded both an NIH F31 and an American Heart Association fellowship to study cardiovascular disease.

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Amanda Farley’s poster was chosen as Best Poster for the Biomaterials division at TMS. Ms. Farley, a student of Drs. Delphine Dean and Molly Kennedy (Department of Materials Science and Engineering), presented on the effect of mineral particles on dental-pulp-cell differentiation.

American Chemical Society
Tigran Abramyan’s molecular-dynamics image was chosen as the cover image for the Computers in Chemistry division of ACS. Tigran is a student in Dr. Robert Latour’s lab.

Murray Stokely Award
Dr. Delphine Dean was awarded the 2012 Murray Stokely Award, which is given in recognition of a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching engineering at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.
 
Phil and Mary Bradley Award
Dr. John DesJardins was awarded the 2012 Phil and Mary Bradley Award for Mentoring in Creative Inquiry. The award is presented each spring in recognition of outstanding work with undergraduate students.

World Biomaterials Congress
Dr. Robert Latour was invited to deliver the keynote address for the Symposium on Proteins at Biomaterial Interfaces at the World Biomaterials Congress in Chengdu, China, June 1-5, 2012.

NSF EAGER
Dr. Sarah Harcum was awarded an Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research by the National Science Foundation. The award supports exploratory work that is potentially transformative.
 
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships were awarded to graduate-student Sarah Cisewski and two undergraduates, Kevin Keith and Laura Wiles.

President's Commission on the Status of Women
The commission annually honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improve the status of women. Dr. Delphine Dean was chosen to receive the 2012 award for Outstanding Academic Faculty.

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