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Seizure Onset Zone Located Immediately, Dealt With University of Houston associate professor of biomedical engineering Nuri Ince, who pioneered a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to detect the seizure onset zone (SOZ) in…
Testing New Treatment for Epilepsy Patients
Finding Could Lead to Better Clinical Disease Monitoring University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is reporting in Arthritis Research and Therapy that clotting proteins, both those that promote blood clots (pro-thrombotic)…
Blood Clotting Proteins Discovered as Biomarkers of Lupus Nephritis
University of Houston Researchers Report Adaptable Stimulation Treatment Researchers at the University of Houston have found neuro biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease that can help create the next generation of “smart” deep brain…
Smart Brain Stimulators: Next-Gen Parkinson’s Disease Therapy
Findings Could Help Seamlessly Integrate Prosthetics A University of Houston engineer is reporting in eNeuro that a brain-computer interface, a form of artificial intelligence, can sense when its user is expecting a reward by…
Research Moves Closer to Brain-Machine Interface Autonomy
Transformative Research Empowering Patients to Monitor Themselves With $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering biomedical researchers are moving…
Researchers Developing Early Detection, Home Monitoring Tests for Lupus Nephritis
Findings May Point to Potential Cure for Addiction The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the UH Cullen College of Engineering is reporting in the journal Nature Scientific Reports that a possible cure for addiction may be…
New Data Suggests Nicotine While Pregnant Alters Genes
UH Engineer Using Optical Equipment to Watch Heart Develop To understand cardiovascular failures, the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths in infants, UH professor of biomedical engineering Kirill Larin is teaming up with…
Understanding Congenital Heart Defects To Prevent Them
First-in-Class Technology to Deliver Images of Birth Defect as it Happens In those precious weeks before a woman even realizes she’s pregnant, an embryo will have already developed a neural tube, a hollow structure made of cells…
Watching an Embryo’s Neural Tube Close
Collaborative Effort Yields Parkinson’s Disease Research Findings Ilknur Telkes, who earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Houston last year and was a 2017 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)…
UH Alumna’s Paper Lands In Prestigious PNAS Journal
Method Less Invasive, Less Expensive than Colonoscopy University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is set to make a breakthrough in predicting and monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). With $347,490 from the Crohn’s…
Stool Proteins to Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease
UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing…
Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
With $2 Million Grant, UH Researcher Unraveling the Link The chronic inflammatory disease systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus), is about nine times more common in women than men, and a University of Houston…
Women and Lupus – Tackling the Debilitating Connection
UH Engineer Awarded for Developing Ideal Nanosystem for Therapeutic Applications The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Houston biomedical engineer Sheereen Majd the CAREER Award and $500,000 to improve…
NSF CAREER Winner Sheereen Majd to Improve Drug Delivery
Researcher says 'Science has no boundaries and it’s exciting to see that in action.' Elebeoba E. May, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, received a $215,032…
UH Biomedical Engineering Professor Appointed by National Science Foundation as Program Director
New Fabrication Technique Allows More Control Over Electrical Properties With increasing scientific and medical interest in communication with the nervous system, demand is growing for biomedical devices that can better record…
Researchers Report Better Way to Create Organic Bioelectronics
Tianfu Wu used to dream of the day when cancer could be detected long before it was diagnosed. Now he sees that day dawning because of a system his research group created called the ultrasensitive polymeric sensing system (UPSS…
Finding Disease and Toxins Early: Tianfu Wu’s Laboratory Creates Ultra-Sensitive Detection Tool
A UH biomedical engineer is zeroing in on the gap where nerve meets muscle to bring more precise treatment to stroke patients. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded more than $434,000 to Assistant Professor Yingchun…
Treating Stroke Patients at the Intersection of Nerve and Muscle
The Cullen College department of biomedical engineering hosted a roster of distinguished international guests. Three representatives of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Science…
Global Visitors Come To Cullen College Biomedical Engineering Department
Two Cullen College biomedical engineering professors, Muna Naash, John S. Dunn Endowed Professor and Muayyad Al-Ubaidi, see eye-to-eye on just about everything. Both are working to eradicate eye disease, both discovered Retbindin…
Eyes on the Prize: Two Biomedical Engineers Awarded $1.1M to Study Unique Gene Specific to the Eye
Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood, according to America’s Blood Centers, generating a fundamental need to keep the blood supply healthy. A significant part of that process is to remove the white cells (…
The Clot Thickens: UH Engineer's New Method To Help Keep Donated Blood Supply Safe