New graduate student exchange and collaboration with SETU, Ireland

9/29/22 - “The best advances in science and engineering come as a result of collaboration and sharing of expertise,” said Mark Byrne, founding dean of the School of Translational Biomedical Engineering and Sciences of Rowan University. “This graduate student exchange program will certainly attract the brightest minds in our fields, and in the long term, it will build professional relationships that will greatly benefit our two countries. Choose New Jersey’s efforts to introduce New Jersey companies and higher education institutions abroad will lead to new discoveries that will pay great dividends for all involved.”

Breakthrough ocular technology nears human clinical trials

11/15/21 - For delivering medications directly to the eyes, eyedrops have long been the only option. Groundbreaking technology from OcuMedic, Inc., a medical device company founded by Rowan University’s Dr. Mark Byrne, could revolutionize eye care for patients recovering from ocular surgeries, corneal abrasions, and other eye problems.

Rowan BME engineers are creating nanofibers—with lasers

6/8/21 - Fibers are used in virtually every industry — from aerospace to athletics, energy to health care. So scientists have long worked to develop stronger, better fibers. Rowan researchers will now take these efforts to the next level, working to create the strongest polymer fibers to ever exist.

“Our inspiration is to engineer materials that are the highest performance that anyone can create,” says Rowan University’s Vince Beachley, Ph.D., the project's leader. 

Rowan BME students’ sepsis app advances to real-world testing

3/18/21 - A new app designed by BME students at Rowan University to help providers is undergoing real-world testing at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, N.J.

Rowan researcher: Novel coronavirus could lead to ‘leaky’ blood-brain barrier

8/25/20 - Dr. Peter Galie, an Associate Professor at Rowan BME, has won a $299,876 research grant from the National Science Foundation for a project exploring why the novel coronavirus contributes to an increased risk of stroke among infected patients.

NIH NCI Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Dr. Trang Vu, a BME graduate

6/1/20 - Congratulations to Dr. Trang Vu, a recent Rowan BME PhD graduate, on receiving a prestigious NIH three-year iCURE Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD). At the NCI, Trang will be co-mentored by Dr. Peng Jiang (Cancer and Data Science Laboratory) and Dr. Kenneth Aldape (Laboratory of Pathology), to employ spatial-genomic and in-situ sequencing on brain cancers. These technologies enable the identification of the spatial origin of cells and constructing the 3-D genome structure of a tissue. This project aims to visualize changes in the genomic architecture of the brain during the disease’s onset and progression.

A former PhD student at Rowan, Selected as a BME Emerging Scholar

5/6/20 - Dr. Laura Osorno, a former PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rowan, will be presenting her research on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at the virtual Biomedical Engineering Emerging Scholars Symposium at Boston University. The symposium awardees include 6 speakers from Universities across the country – Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, the University of Washington, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Rowan University. Dr. Osorno’s doctoral work included the engineering of advanced biomaterials for ocular drug delivery with a focus on novel treatments for post-capsule opacification after cataract surgery. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Emerging Scholars Symposium is geared to support and promote the next generation of top academic faculty members who are from historically underrepresented groups in the field and offers emerging scholars the opportunity to present their work to a diverse audience and network with other established researchers.

Rowan BME faculty adapts scuba gear for medical use, in a collaborative work

4/24/20 - A surgeon wearing a scuba diving mask on the job is a strange sight in normal times, but these are not normal times. Acting on a request from a Virtua Health orthopedic surgeon, a Rowan biomedical engineering lecturer recently made 3D-printed couplings to attach hospital ventilator filters to the snorkel tubing on scuba diving masks.

New Rowan facilities: Joint Health Sciences Center opens in Camden

10/16/19 - The $70 million, four-story JHSC, which houses facilities for Rowan University, Rutgers-Camden and Camden County College, represents completion of Phase I of the Board’s two-phase campus construction. Joint Board CEO Dana Redd described the Center as a milestone achievement for the Board, the City of Camden and the region.

Biomedical Engineering part of international vision research project

6/13/19 - Dr. Mark Byrne, founding department head and professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is an advisor and collaborator in the ORBITAL (Ocular Research By Integrated Training and Learning) European Training Network program.

NSF fellowship opening doors for Biomedical Engineering grad

5/22/19 - Brandon DeOre’s mind is on the brain. DeOre, 21, who just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Rowan University, has been working for two years with Dr. Peter Galie, an assistant professor in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, to create models of blood vessels that mimic what is found in the human brain.

Students come from across the country for Rowan research program

7/16/18 - Ten students from across the country have been spending their summer in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering and elsewhere at Rowan University, riveted by nematodes and novel medical devices and growing tissues, among other things

National standout: Summa cum laude graduate Kelsey DeFrates

4/30/18 - It’s nice having the kind of problem Kelsey DeFrates has.

Attend this graduate program or that? Earn a Ph.D. in the heartland or on the coast? Choose from, oh, say, close to a dozen schools that have accepted you this week or next?

Summer programs RAISE academics for high school students

9/8/17 - It may seem odd to hear high school students use words like “exciting” and “enjoyable” when discussing what it’s like to spend a large part of their summer in school, but those and other superlatives frequently described summer programs for teenagers on Rowan’s Stratford and Glassboro campuses.

Rowan Engineering student, Kelsey DeFrates, lands Goldwater Scholarship

6/21/17 - Kelsey DeFrates lives for research. The rising senior is pursuing her passion for engineering in medicine at Rowan University in the Biomedical Engineering program and dreams of creating biocompatible materials or develop biosensors.

Rowan engineering prof lands prestigious Science Center grant

2/16/17 - Patients with broken legs soon may undergo more successful surgeries thanks to a robot. That’s the goal of Dr. Mohammad Abedin-Nasab, a research assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Rowan University.

Dr. Galie Awarded American Heart Association Young Investigator Grant

2/10/17 -  Dr. Peter Galie, an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded a $216,000 research grant from the American Heart Association for work “establishing a mechanistic link between cerebral blood flow and the blood-brain barrier.” Dr. Galie has also recently published groundbreaking work in the top peer-reviewed journal, Biomaterials, on this subject.

A BME faculty selected as a finalist of QED Program of the Science Center

12/16/16 - Dr. Mohammad Abedin Nasab, Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, was one of 11 finalists of this year’s QED Program of the Science Center. Final presentations were yesterday and teams were competing for $200K in funds to develop their business. Dr. Abedin Nasab’s team is spinning out his cutting edge research in medical robotics producing ROBOSSIS an Orthopedic Surgical Robot. The QED Proof-of-Concept Program provides business development support for academic researchers developing early-stage life science and healthcare IT technologies. The key goal is to retire the business risk in these early-stage projects, increasing their attractiveness to follow-on investment by established life science companies and private investors.

Two BME undergrads awarded 1st place in a national conference

11/29/16 - Freha Tahir and Kacie Karlin, undergraduate seniors working in Dr. Mark Byrne’s lab, Biomimetic & Biohybrid Materials, Biomedical Devices, & Drug Delivery Laboratories, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, were awarded first place for their poster presentation “Novel Therapeutic Hydrogel Contact Lenses for Glaucoma: Analysis of Release Kinetics and Polymeric Structural Kinetics” in the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division at the Annual American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Rowan University appoints Dr. Mark Byrne to head new BME program

12/1/14 - Rowan University has named educator and researcher Dr. Mark Byrne as professor and inaugural chairman of the new Biomedical Engineering Department in its nationally recognized College of Engineering.