A Partnership to Advance Useful Knowledge
The CEMB is dedicated to connecting its research to a wide audience across the biomedical community, especially to those in the biomedical industries. This is part of the ‘knowledge transfer mandate’ from NSF’s Science ...
Jason Burdick’s, PROHIBIX, launches at Penn incubator space
On November 1, The University of Pennsylvania launched a new partnership with Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the health care giant’s collaborative arm. Known as JPOD @ Philadelphia and based in the Pennovation Center, JPOD is a start-up incubator designed ...
When Cells Go Rogue: Pathak wins NIH MIRA grant to study cell group behavior and role in metastasis
(News item prepared by Patience Graybill, Wash U) Researchers have thought that cancer begins when a single cell goes rogue in the body then begins to grow and multiply. Now, they are investigating evidence ...
Successful Summer: CEMB Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Washington University in St. Louis
(News item prepared by Patricia Widder, Wash U) The Washington University in St. Louis cohort of the CEMB Undergraduate Research Program had a productive and successful summer, with a full schedule of research, education, ...
Restoring the heart’s elasticity: new path against heart failure
Ben Prosser, Assistant Professor of Physiology and CEMB faculty researcher and his colleague, Ken Margulies recently reported in Nature Medicine, promising work into restoring elasticity to previously 'damaged' and stiff cardiac muscle cells. The work ...
Summer Undergraduate Research in St. Louis and Philadelphia
(News item prepared by Ashley Wallace, UPenn) In spring 2018, students were selected from 200+ applicants to participate in the 2018 Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB) summer undergraduate research program. The 10-week summer program serves as ...
