October 2021 Biomedical Engineering Newsletter

October 2021

Dear colleagues,
At BMES

We've returned from a week of stimulating science presentations, engaging poster sessions and collegial interactions with our broader community at BMES 2021 in Orlando. I am personally grateful to the many WashU BME faculty, trainees and staff who shared their work and passion for research and education, both virtually and in-person. Back in St. Louis, we’re continuing the momentum. I hope you’ll enjoy this snapshot of our fall highlights for happenings and innovations in WashU BME.

Kind regards,

Lori A. Setton
Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St Louis

‘First-in-class’ tool for potential treatment of brain disorders

Hong Chen has received a $2.1 million grant from the NIH to develop a new tool that would deliver treatment for brain disorders without incisions.

Potential mechanical triggers behind inherited heart disease focus of new study

Nathaniel Huebsch has received a nearly $2 million grant from the NIH to study the role of blood pressure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

‘Unprecedented opportunity’ to understand neurovascular recovery after stroke

Song Hu will partner with researchers to study how the brain recovers from ischemic stroke with a $3.12 million grant from the NIH.

A new way to deliver vaccines to the elderly without inflammation

Jai Rudra is using nanofibers to develop new vaccines that do not require adjuvants.

Distilling 70 years’ worth of data

Jonathan Silva and his lab use computational biology to better understand the fundamentals of arrhythmia. Their research was recently published in PLoS Computational Biology.

SPOTLIGHT

New faculty to join McKelvey School of Engineering in 2021-2022

Christine M. O’Brien will join the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor in 2022.