Renee Cottle has been selected to receive a 2021 Pinnacle Research Award. This three-year, $300,000 award will fund her research project, "Nonviral Delivery of CRISPR-CAS9 Hepatocytes for Liver Repopulation Using Acetaminophen Selection."
The College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science as well as the Department of Bioengineering have completed the award selections for 2021. We are proud to announce the winners of these awards and congratulate them for their hard work and accomplishments.
Seven Clemson University students have been awarded the 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive grant aimed at building future scientific and engineering leaders. Six others received Honorable Mentions.
Clemson University is showing its growing strength in biomedical research with the publication of a new paper that describes a way of measuring three-dimensional extracellular diffusion.
All 10 of the co-authors in the Nature Communications paper are faculty, students or graduates from the Clemson University-Medical University of South Carolina Bioengineering Program.
The overwhelming Clemson presence on the team shows that years of local and federal investment in biomedical research are paying off, said Hai Yao, who is the senior author, Ernest R. Norville Endowed Chair at Clemson and associate chair for the joint bioengineering program.
One of bioengineering’s top honors is going to a Clemson University professor who has played a leading role in South Carolina’s response to COVID-19, has led efforts to develop medical devices for low-resource settings and has advised top lawmakers on issues ranging from the pandemic to diversity in healthcare professions.
Delphine Dean, the Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor, is among the newest members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
Five teams of researchers have received funding to develop tests and strategies that Clemson University and the community can use to continue fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
The projects aim to develop new long-lasting sanitizing solutions, faster diagnostics tests and additional tools to more accurately predict COVID-19 spread and severity, among other solutions.
Three projects, all led by endowed professors in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, won awards that recognize innovation in South Carolina.
A proposal by Brian Booth, Ph.D., and John O'Connell, M.D., of Prisma Health was selected for funding via PrismaHealth’s Transformative Research Seed Grant mechanism. The Health Sciences Center at PrismaHealth funds life-changing health services research that aligns with Prisma Health’s purpose statement. The grant will support optimization of oscillating electric field delivery in tissue culture with the goal of more safely and effectively eradicating deposits of metastatic cancer in combination with other proven cancer therapies.
Delphine Dean, Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor, was honored February 9, 2021, at an unveiling ceremony in the Carillon Gardens, where she was presented with the Class of ’39 medal. Dean’s induction as a member of the class will be held in the Heritage Gardens, part of the South Carolina Botanical Garden.
A new Clemson University lab that researchers are calling “a cutting-edge solution to help fight COVID-19” could be stocked with 13 sample-handling robots and have a staff of about 50 students fully trained as early as November.
Undergraduate Lauren Davis, has been selected to participate in the Beckman Scholars Program. This prestigious recognition is made possible by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
A few supplies available at just about any hardware store for less than $100 can be assembled into a device that helps keep COVID-19 patients from infecting the healthcare providers who take care of them, a group of Clemson University researchers said.
Clemson University students and faculty have always known “there’s something in these hills,” and now the rest of the world is starting to understand, too.
Naren Vyavahare, CTO of TGen Tech,co-founded the start-up with CEO Ajay Houde. Focused on pediatric applications of technologies to improve soft tissue healing, the company’s mission is to enable healthier lives for children and adults worldwide.
Two Clemson University freshmen are thinking outside the box– and shining a light inside it– to combat COVID-19 at the grocery store.
Congratulations to Hai Yao for winning proof-of-concept funding through the XLerator Network's I2P Grant Program!
Elastrin Therapeutics is a biotech startup with technologies to restore hardened and damaged arteries and tissue by targeting the elastic fiber that makes them work.
Delphine Dean, Sarah Harcum and Terri Bruce, BIOE faculty members, are volunteering their services to develop the antibody test.
Researchers have developed a new way of simulating heart attacks in a lab and then using the engineered tissue to screen drugs that show promise for treating patients with heart damage, according to a new article in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Janeen Putman reflects on her year as president of Staff Senate as she passes the gavel on.
