Biomedical Engineering
First Award
This research aimed to enhance the accessibility and customizability of domestic chicken eggs for embryonic analyses and model system research. Through the engineering of a novel device, a s…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Purpose The purpose of the OctoGrasp project is to design and build a highly dexterous bio-mimetic prosthetic arm inspired by the biology of cephalopods. Typical prosthetics rely on force at…
Biomedical Engineering
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used to model tissue microstructure non-invasively. One such model called Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI), has…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
While type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects millions worldwide, some individuals may experience rapid fluctuations in their blood sugar levels. These fluctuations can negatively impact an individual…
Biomedical Engineering
Vascular endothelial cells line blood vessels and are important in vascular health, growth, and repair, and pulsatile blood flow generated with each heartbeat sends mechanical signals to the…
Biomedical Engineering
In today's world, humanity has found a way to increase life expectancy. This form is segmented in the hospital medical area, which uses various procedures and research to increasingly increa…
Biomedical Engineering
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms are issues related to the bladder system, affecting over 80% of men above 60. Symptoms are caused either by an obstruction in the urinary tract or a weak bladder…
Biomedical Engineering
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery is a procedure that involves implanting electrodes that send electrical impulses to target brain regions to disrupt abnormal patterns of neural activity…
Biomedical Engineering
Excessive traumatic hemorrhage is the leading cause of mortality for civilians and military personnel under 50 years of age. The current treatment of donor derived platelet transfusions is r…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
Annually, Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer affects 4.8 million people worldwide, and has 5-year survival rates as low as 8%. However, the survival rate increases to 70% if GI cancers are detecte…
Biomedical Engineering
Musculoskeletal injuries are occurring more and more frequently, with one of the main causes being the increasing number of new patients who sustain knee structure injuries. Currently, exosk…
Biomedical Engineering
Current dog prosthetics for the foreleg and shoulder are rigid and limiting for canines. These prosthetics do not allow the animal to lay down, sit properly, or traverse harsh terrain withou…
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a fear of a global ventilator shortage for treating patients. This prompted the development of low-cost ventilator designs worldwide. SimplyV…
Biomedical Engineering
Computed tomography (CT) is a three-dimensional imaging modality that uses X- ray beams to produce cross-sectional information of an object or a patient. CT suffers from multiple inherent li…
Biomedical Engineering
Socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals suffer disproportionately from vaccine preventable diseases. This is due, at least in part, to a lack of accessible screening tools for such illne…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive brain tumor with the lowest survival rate of any human cancer due to its invasive growth dynamics. These dynamics result in recurrent tumor pockets h…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Stroke is a significant health problem, imposing a growing burden on patients, families, and healthcare systems. Many stroke patients experience diminished confidence in walking independentl…
Biomedical Engineering
The detection of extremes in health is imperative to the preservation of human life. From the staple stethoscope in every medical institution, to as simple a scale in someone’s bathroom, acc…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Breast cancer ranks first among the most common types of cancer globally, regionally and locally, as early detection of breast cancer increases the cure and survival rate, increases treatmen…
Biomedical Engineering
The current Covid-19 pandemic has developed not only a global public health crisis, but also a very serious impact on production chains. Leveraged by the urgency of the scarcity of resources…
Biomedical Engineering
While bone diseases may not receive as much attention as heart disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses, they account for more than half a million hospitalizations and the annual placeme…
Biomedical Engineering
This experiment aimed to determine the viability of Gefitinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, as a treatment for triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) and to illustrate the p…
Biomedical Engineering
My problem was what female animal tendon is sufficient for anterior cruciate ligament grafts in humans. Testing this would allow me to give patients another grafting option to lessen postope…
Biomedical Engineering
Advances in current treatment methods for Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy and surgery, have not improved the prognosis of GBM. The objective…
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of non-invasive glucose monitoring using spectroscopy and machine learning. The spectral measurements were performed on a pa…
Biomedical Engineering
Traumatic injury accounts for over 150,000 deaths per year, and millions of non-fatal injuries per year (Connoway, 2020). Additionally, out of the 1.1 million burn victims admitted to US hos…
Biomedical Engineering
Thousands of people suffer from skin damage or burns every year, accidents that can cause disability or even death. The present work proposed a new concept of intelligent dressing for tissue…
Biomedical Engineering
Essential tremor, which affects millions in the United States, is a progressive and incurable movement disorder characterized by uncontrollable shaking of the hands and arms during voluntary…
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common degenerative disease of central nervous system among elderly people, with an estimate of over 8.5 million patients in 2019. But currently, only 40…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Paralysis is a medical condition that results in the loss of the ability to move some or all parts of the body. Even though treatments for some kinds of paralysis exist, there's currently no…