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4/20/23 - Brendan Connor, a junior biomedical engineering major, has spent the last year in Dr. Mark Byrne’s Biomimetic & Biohybrid Materials, Biomedical Devices & Drug Delivery Laboratories researching novel drug delivery systems with fewer side effects, especially for cancer-fighting chemotherapeutic drugs. Connor was awarded the prestigious 2023 Goldwater Scholarship, which will provide partial tuition and fees for his senior year. 

11/17/22 - Dr. Anthony Lowman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dr. Erik Brewer, a Senior Lecturer in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, won the prestigious award for their U.S. patent, “Cross-Linked Hydrogels and Methods of Making the Same.” In recent clinical trials, patients reported their chronic pain levels decreased by more than 80% at three months.

9/27/22 - A recent $500,000 grant awarded by the N.J. Commission on Cancer Research in the New Jersey Department of Health will support research at Rowan University to develop less invasive and more personalized treatment options for pediatric acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The project will be led by Rachel Riley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

4/21/22 - Ashleigh Jankowski, a BME student, nominated by the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering has earned the prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarship. Jankowski is the fourth Goldwater Scholar in the last five years to represent both Rowan’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Honors College.

3/2/22 - For the better part of a decade, Dr. Mohammad Abedin-Nasab, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, has been developing a robotic system to aid doctors in these procedures—and improve patient outcomes.

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.

10/18/21 - The annual TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo highlights research advances from organizations and universities all over the world, but the event is much more than a strictly academic conference.

“The TechConnect conference is a matchmaking opportunity for researchers who can showcase their innovations and meet potential investors,” said Dr. Tabbetha Dobbins, Rowan University’s interim vice president for research. “Presenting at TechConnect is a good way to get exposure and network. Researchers and innovators can greatly broaden their reach with one event.”

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

3/10/20 - The Handbook of Robotic and Image-Guided Surgery, edited by Dr. Mohammad Abedin-Nasab, is among five books nominated as finalists in the subject area of Engineering and Technology.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.