The Society for Biomaterials hosted a webinar on Thursday, June 4, 2015, explaining how you can effectively run an academic research lab.
SFB President Thomas Webster of Northeastern University covered a number of topics including:
- Best practices for setting up and organizing a biomaterials lab
- Techniques and new standards to be aware of for properly...
Read moreApril 1, 2015 - The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has been granted United States patent No. 8,993,540, “Compositions and Methods for Delivering an Agent to a Wound.” It is the 20th patent granted to UMRF. The product covered by this patent was invented in the University of Memphis Herff College Of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). The inventors are Dr...
Read moreProfessor Christopher Jewell, Assistant Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, has been named one of six 2015 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovators by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research foundation. According to the foundation, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to support the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with...
Read moreDr. Paulette Spencer, an active member of the Dental/Craniofacial SIG and one of the SFB representatives to the International Union of Biomaterials Fellows has received a Faculty Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. Dr. Spencer is the Ackers Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Bioengineering Research Center at the University of Kansas, School of...
Read moreSFB President-Elect Dr. Thomas Webster (Northeastern University) discusses how nanomedicine can be used to treat allergies and Ebola:Nanomedicine and allergies ...
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