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| Penn Bioengineers Show Stem Cell Fate Depends on 'Grip' | |||
| The field of regenerative medicine holds great promise, propelled by greater understanding of how stem cells differentiate themselves into many of the body's different cell types. But clinical applications in the field have been slow to materialize, partially owing to difficulties in replicating the conditions these cells naturally experience. Penn Bioengineers have generated new insight on how a stem cell's environment influences what type of cell a stem cell will become. | |||
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| Penn Engineering Learns a Few New Tricks | |||
The Department of Bioengineering celebrated Engineering Week in February by sponsoring several events, including one with a special canine visitor from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center (PVWDC). McBaine, an eleven-week-old springer spaniel puppy, visited Penn Engineering as part of the "Dogs & Devices" event, where undergraduate students joined together to build a scent wheel for PVWDC. |
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| Penn Bioengineers Find New Therapeutic Target for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury | |||
A research team led by David Meaney, Solomon R. Pollack Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, has discovered that drug intervention to reduce intercellular signaling between astrocytes following traumatic brain injury reduces cognitive deficits and damage. Signaling between astrocytes plays a prominent role in cell death after brain injury and a single injury to the brain can trigger widespread signaling through the astrocyte network. |
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| Jessie Huang Receives 2013 Undergraduate Student Paper Award | |||
Jessie Huang (BE'13) is a recipient of the 2013 Undergraduate Student Paper Award from the Philadelphia Engineering Foundation and the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. Huang's paper, Rat Precision-Cut Lung Slices as a Model for Deformation-Induced Lung Injury Studies, was the result of her research experience in the Injury Biomechanics Lab led by Susan Margulies, George H. Stephenson Term Chair and Professor in BE. |
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Rep Rap 3D Printing Blood Vessel Networks
Bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania have turned the problem inside out by using a 3D printer called a RepRap to make templates of blood vessel networks out of sugar. Check it out!
Our students have the opportunity to serve anywhere, from providing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) outreach activities at the University and in Philadelphia area schools, to serving the needs of communities in Honduras, Cameroon and China using their technological and engineering knowledge.
Undergraduate Clinical Experience
In the course "Clinical Preceptorship in Bioengineering" (BE 400), students receive what few undegraduates in united states ever have the opportunity to experience: a chance to shadow renowned physicians for 10 weeks as they treat patients, perform surgeries, and diagnose disease.
