Penn State Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor Tak-Sing Wong and Penn State Mechanical Engineering alumna Birgitt Boschitsch raised over $1.3 million of total venture capital funding for their startup, spotLESS Materials! The company, which sells super slippery coating technology as an assistive cleaning product, started at Penn State and has since grown to an international collaboration. Learn more: https://bit.ly/COE-SpotLESS

Justin Pritchard, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Entrepreneurial Assistant Professor and assistant professor of biomedical engineering, leads a research team that recently received a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to engineer self-destructive cancer cells that can kill neighboring drug-resistant cancer cells: bit.ly/BME-Pritchard

On KGNU’s science radio show, How on Earth, Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, discussed his research in usin...g nanotechnology to sustainably recover neodymium, a rare earth element used to create magnets for electronics, from electronic waste. Listen: bit.ly/COE-KGNU See more

A team of researchers, led by Assistant Professor Amir Sheikhi, developed a new class of nanomaterials engineered to capture chemotherapy drugs before they interact with healthy tissue, potentially reducing secondary illness and improving quality of life for cancer patients. Learn more: bit.ly/ChE-Sheikhi2

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Shengxi Huang, who was recently awarded a Young Investigator Research Program grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research! With the grant, she will investigate fundamental, new ways to create next-generation sensors, with the goal of improving a myriad of applications in electromagnetics.

When mice rest, individual neurons fire in seconds-long, coordinated cascades, triggering activity across the brain, according to a research team led by Assistant Professor Xiao Liu. This discovery may have implications for better understanding neural activity in humansespecially cognitive decline.