Monday, June 12, 2017

News9 Features Building of Prosthetic Hands for OU Boeing Engineering Days

OU Biomedical Engineering was featured on News9 for their efforts as part of the OU Boeing Engineering Days - a day where high school students learn more about engineering disciplines. Saturday's focus, presented by Dr. Rachel Childers, focused on building prosthetic hands. 

View News9 video.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

SBME Graduate Student Paper Selected as Finalist at International IEEE Conference

Yafen Chen
Yafen Chen, a first-year graduate student in SBME has been selected as a finalist in the Student Paper Competition of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Medicine and Biology Society, the largest international organization of biomedical engineers.

Out of 180 student paper entries, Chen's submission was selected as one of ten finalists. She will present her work at the international conference in July at Jeju Island, Korea, where she will compete for three final awards.

Chen's paper focuses on integrating brain imaging with a treatment device of stimulation. Her research is being conducted in collaboration with Yoon-Hee Cha from the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, as well as SBME Associate Professor Lei Ding. Han Yuan, an assistant professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, is her Ph.D. advisor.


Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Graduate Students Shine Bright at Inaugural Symposium


Three graduate students from the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering shone bright at the inaugural 2017 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Biomedical Engineering Symposium held March 24. The students, all in pursuit of their doctoral degrees, presented posters on their respective research projects. They placed as follows (pictured above from left):

1st place – Jakob TownsendPoster title: “Bone regeneration in critical size calvarial defects utilizing natural materials and growth factors in vivo”

2nd place – Pratik SamantPoster title: "Nanoscale Photoacoustic Tomography for Single Cell Imaging"

3rd place – Salma Mahzoon
Poster title: “Synthetic Peptide Effects on Chondrogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells”