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James Patton's lab part of new center award on Traumatic Brain Injury

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program named a "Model System of Care" by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). It will become one of a network of 16 facilities nationwide with this designation and is named the Midwest Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. Funds received from NIDRR will support two new research studies that focus on innovative approaches to improve cognition, function and community living for people with brain injuries. Patton's group will focus on one of these utilizing robotics, virtual reality and new scientific models to examine rehabilitation treatments for brain injury patients.

Rolling Meadows High School Students Visit Bioe

Mrs. Caponigro's Physiology class visits Bioe on May 13, 2008.

Dr. Rousche's "Translational neural engineering: multiple perspectives on bringing benchtop research into the clinical domain"

Dr. Rousche's article was profiled on the cover of the March issue of Journal of Neural Engineering. The article examines how researchers in neural engineering can move their ideas from the university labs into wider use by doctors and patients in hospitals and other clinical settings.

Nanotechnology Solutions for Alzheimer’s Disease: Advances in Research Tools,
Diagnostic Methods and Therapeutic Agents
by Dr. G.A. Mansoori & Dr. Amir Nazem
a spotlight on

Dr. G.A. Mansoori & collaborators published a book on Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology

Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology: From Diamondoids to Nanoscale Materials and Applications (Springer, New York), Topics in Applied Physics 109, 2007.

Look Inside Dr. Rousche's
Neural Engineering Device Development Laboratory
&
Neural Engineering Applications Laboratory

The Heschel’s Gyrus (HG) in the primary auditory cortex of a human is being modeled in the Neural Engineering Device Development Laboratory of Dr. Patrick J. Roushe. These subject-specific anatomical models overlaid with fMRI mapping of the HG will be used to optimally design electrodes for an Auditory Cortical Prosthesis to restore hearing in deaf patients.

Hot Research at AMReL

High dielectric thin films are deposited on silicon wafers. In order to study the chemical and structural changes at the interface at high temperatures, the deposited films are annealed up to 1000 degree Celsius in a furnace.

Dr. Cho's papers make cover in
Biophysical Journal &
Laboratory Investigation

Read article in Biophysical Journal
Read article in Laboratory Investigation

Ongoing research in Dr. Cho's
Laboratory for Biomolecular Imaging

Cytoskeleton organization in undifferentiated human mesenchymal stem cells (A, B) and mature osteoblasts (C, D). In these confocal images, actins and tubulins are stained with rhodamine-phalloidin (red) and FITC-conjugated anti-a-tubulin antibody (green), respectively. Stem cells (A) have many thick actin bundles (stress fibers) unlike thinner actin filament meshwork in osteoblasts (C). After treatment with cytochalasin D and nocodazole, the cytoskeleton is fully disintegrated (B, D), and patches of actins are left at the focal adhesion sites. The bar represents 30 µm.

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Faculty Research Award Winners
9/11/08

BioE Students Define Neural Engineering
8/28/08

Deivya Bansal receives internship at NASA, nice work!
6/17/08

Dr. Anil Gulati selected as a Fulbright Scholar grantee to India
6/13/08

U of I establishes scholarship honoring Lucy Trevino's mother
5/30/08

Yogendra Shastri's PhD dissertation published in monograph by
VDM Publishing
5/28/08

Yuen-Ying Valentina Ngai & Diego Orozco win FMC Fellowship
for 2008-2009

Farah Shareef receives Fulbright Scholarship & will join Engineering at Imperial College, London GB to work with Prof. Ross Ethier

Kalpana Dokka
receives Provost’s & Deiss Award
&
Matthew Curtis &
Weiguo Li receive
Provost’s Award
for Spring 2008

Peter Ifft honorable best poster for "Novel Multi- Modal System Facilitates Simultaneous Chemical and Electrophysiological Recordings in Ischemic Stroke Model" at
ASEE Conference

Farah Shareef
named to USA Today All-USA College Academic Team

Jennifer Frederick
wins University of Illinois Alumni Association's 2008 Student Leadership Award

PhD Graduate
Ross Kopher
awarded Fellowship through MinnCResT at U of Minnesota

Dr. G. Ali Mansoori
invited to become an Associate Editor of the JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (JAD)

Jie Liang Ph.D. of Bioinformatics program elected AIMBE fellow

Jennifer Frederick, Rebecca Williams & Deepika Chitturi
awarded AEMB travel grants to attend fall meeting of BMES in LA California