George gets grant to study new drugs on heart tissue
Details: About 80 percent of new drugs fail in human clinical trials because they are found to be unsafe or ineffective, and more than 30 percent fail due to toxicity. As part of a national effort to...
View ArticleMajor Indo-U.S. Advanced Bioenergy Consortium launches
Details: By Jessica Martin, news.wustl.edu The government of India’s Department of Biotechnology, Indian corporate leaders and Washington University in St. Louis have invested $2.5 million to launch...
View ArticleIDEA Labs publishes in Nature Biotechnology
Details: Four MD/PhD students who are executive board members of IDEA Labs have introduced their biomedical incubator to the scientific community through an article published in Nature Biotechnology’s...
View ArticleMajor Indo-U.S. Advanced Bioenergy Consortium launches
Details: By Jessica Martin, news.wustl.edu The government of India’s Department of Biotechnology, Indian corporate leaders and Washington University in St. Louis have invested $2.5 million to launch...
View ArticleIncreasing connectivity is in his cards
Details: By Lisa Cary Ted Perlstein, B.S.A.S. '97, creates and designs new ways for people to connect and communicate-though not in a way his Washington University engineering professors might have...
View ArticleTwo teams win inaugural Global Impact Award
Details: news.wustl.edu Nanopore Diagnostics LLC and ViFlex LLC are the inaugural winners of the Suren G. Dutia and Jas K. Grewal Global Impact Award from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial...
View ArticleDiscovery Competition winners featured in Fast Company
Details: By Ben Schiller, Fast Company Imagine what your life would be like if you needed glasses but couldn't afford a pair. You would struggle to work, look after your family, and do all kinds of...
View ArticleEfimov featured in Popular Mechanics
Details: By Logan Ward, Popular Mechanics A Custom-Fitted Electronic Heart Wrap John Rogers at the University of Illinois and Igor Efimov at Washington University hope to bring heart-analyzing...
View ArticleGeorge gets grant to study new drugs on heart tissue
Details: About 80 percent of new drugs fail in human clinical trials because they are found to be unsafe or ineffective, and more than 30 percent fail due to toxicity. As part of a national effort to...
View ArticleImproving imaging of cancerous tissues by reversing time
Details: By Beth Miller As a child, it was fascinating to put a flashlight up to our palms to see the light shine through the hand. Washington University in St. Louis engineers are using a similar idea...
View ArticleWalk through buildings from your own device
Details: By Beth Miller Would you like to visit The Frick Collection art museum in New York City but can’t find the time? No problem. You can take a 3-D virtual tour that will make you feel like you...
View ArticleGiammar seeking new solutions for underground carbon storage
Details: By Beth Miller Dan Giammar, PhD, is going deep into the earth to find a potential solution to store carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. Giammar, professor in energy, environmental...
View ArticleRudy named visiting professor at Oxford
Details: news.wustl.edu Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been given the title of visiting professor in computational...
View ArticleAddressing global challenges: The role of research universities
Details: By Jessica Martin, news.wustl.edu Representatives and leadership from Washington University and the 28 McDonnell International Scholars Academy institutions came together with policymakers,...
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Bayly, Jubels to be honored at Founders Day
Details: By Beth Miller An Engineering department chair and an active alumnus and his wife will be recognized Nov. 8 at the university’s Founders Day gala. Philip Bayly, PhD, the the Lilyan and E....
View ArticleBayly, Rudy receive continued funding for research
Details: Philip Bayly, PhD, and Yoram Rudy, PhD, have each received renewals of ongoing research grants from the National Institutes of Health. Bayly, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor and Chair...
View ArticleFaculty co-write new imaging handbook
Details: Six Engineering & Applied Science faculty members have chapters featured in the recently published Handbook of Imaging in Biological Mechanics. Guy Genin, PhD, professor of mechanical...
View ArticleIDEA Labs publishes in Nature Biotechnology
Details: Four MD/PhD students who are executive board members of IDEA Labs have introduced their biomedical incubator to the scientific community through an article published in Nature Biotechnology’s...
View ArticleEngineering well represented among Olin Cup finalists
Details: By Beth Miller Three teams headed by Engineering students and an alumna are among the 10 Olin Cup Competition finalists for the 2014-2015 competition. The 10 teams, chosen from 21 semifinalist...
View ArticleBiswas featured on St. Louis Public Radio
Details: By Durrie Bouscaren, St. Louis Public Radio "East St. Louis Landfill Facility To Convert Trash To Fuel" There’s a network of pipes underneath the Milam Landfill in East St. Louis. The pipes...
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