biomedical engineering News
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Pixee Medical is proud to extend its business in the UK
Pixee Medical is proud to extend its business in the UK! We are now ready to perform the first surgeries soon in the Great Britain and Ireland with our distributors. An opportunity to highlight two people involved in this project with Lucie Pécheur, in charge of the regulatory aspects and Cécile IMBERT our Operations Director to manage the commercial launch. Both are graduates of ...
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Innovating Biomedical Engineering: Installation at the University of Strathclyde
Stephen Haywood, Test and Installation Engineer at Hiden Analytical, recently installed an EQP Mass and Energy Analyser at the University of Strathclyde’s Biomedical Engineering Department. This revolutionary tool will accelerate their research on prosthetic ...
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Corify Care Participates In the Atrial Signals Workshop 2021
Last week (23-25th September) took place the workshop Atrial Signals 2021 http://www.atrial-signals.kit.edu/ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), thanks to the joint collaboration of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) and the Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe. Andreu Climent, CEO of Corify Care presented Acorys, our Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging device of the ...
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Microneedle patch technology shows potential for long-acting contraception
ATLANTA, January 14, 2019 – The laboratory of Prof. Mark Prausnitz at Georgia Tech developed dissolving microneedle patches that administer a long-acting contraceptive for more than 30 days using microneedle technology licensed exclusively to Micron Biomedical. This work was published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering on January 14, 2019. In the study conducted in animals, ...
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Proa Medical, Inc. Receives China and Russia Patent Grants for its First Device for Women’s Health
Proa Medical, Inc., developer of innovative and practical medical devices for women’s health, today announced that it has been granted patents in China and Russia covering the company’s first product, the Brella Vaginal Retractor. (Proa Medical was granted a United States patent covering the Brella Vaginal Retractor from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on June 9, 2015.) ...
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Proa Medical, Inc. Receives U.S. Patent Grant for its First Device for Women’s Health
Proa Medical, Inc., developer of innovative and practical medical devices for women’s health, today announced that it has been granted a United States patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers the company’s first product, the Brella Vaginal Retractor. The Brella Vaginal Retractor is a single-use device with a built-in light source ...
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How to freeze-dry a potential COVID-19 vaccine
Things that are freeze-dried: Astronaut food. Emergency rations. And, just maybe, some future COVID-19 vaccines. Freeze-drying is a method for removing water from a product. First, you freeze the item you’re trying to dehydrate, causing any water in it to become ice. Then, you remove the ice through a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly into vapor under low pressure. In ...
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CardioWise Stretch Quantifier for Endocardial Engraved Zones (SQuEEZ) Receives Patents from Both the United States and the European Union
CardioWise, Inc., is pleased to announce two significant patents protecting its heart function analysis software, Stretch Quantifier for Endocardial Engraved Zones (SQuEEZ). The European Union Patent Number 12839978.9 was awarded on February 2, 2019, followed closely by the U.S. Patent on June 7, 2019 (patent application number 14/350,991). Both patents are entitled “Methods for Evaluating ...
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Nature pitched as source of innovation in poor countries
Scientists in developing countries should look for inspiration in their unique environments instead of trying to replicate European and US methods, a meeting at the United Kingdom’s Royal Society has heard. George Whitesides, a chemistry professor at Harvard University in the United States, told the London meeting on 27 May that systems and structures in nature can be starting points for ...
By SciDev.Net
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Visby Medical Appoints Terri S. Bresenham and Scott Edward Mendel to Board of Directors
Visby Medical™, a leading medical diagnostic company, today announced Terri Bresenham and Scott Mendel have been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Bresenham was most recently chief innovation officer at General Electric Corporation and Mendel was chief executive officer of GenMark Diagnostics. Together they bring over 45 cumulative years of experience in the medical ...
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World leading medical researchers shortlisted for £350,000 engineering research prize
The prize is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in engineering research in the fields of medical, microwave and radar or laser/optoelectronic engineering, with the prize fund awarded to support further research led by the recipient. This year’s theme is medical engineering and technology. Included in the 2020 shortlist are: Dr Gregoire Courtine is Full Professor ...
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Terray Therapeutics Strengthens Leadership with Appointment of Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D., as Board Independent Director
Terray Therapeutics, a biotechnology company accelerating drug discovery through the application of computational approaches to precisely generated chemical data at scale, today announced the appointment of Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D., as an Independent Director. “We are incredibly fortunate to have Bassil join the Terray team,” said Jacob Berlin, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Terray. ...
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Mercury’s Innovation and Job Creation Featured in Cleveland’s Fresh Water e-News Magazine
Maintaining a patient’s body temperature during and after surgery to prevent hypothermia and infections has long been a challenge in the medical community. Traditionally, medical providers have used Forced Air Warming (FAW) devices to warm a patient, but these devices often fall short. “Current FAW devices, the standard of care, fail to meet the clinical goal of maintaining normal ...
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Suono Bio, Inc. Announces Formulation-Agnostic Platform for the Delivery of RNA Therapeutics
Suono Bio, Inc., the company revolutionizing the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, today announced its latest publication in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences demonstrating the capability to deliver unformulated RNA therapeutics against relevant disease targets in the gastrointestinal tract. This latest publication adds to the validation of Suono Bio’s therapeutic delivery ...
By Suono Bio
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Successful change of ownership Humeca BV
We are pleased to inform you about the successful change of ownership of Humeca BV to mr. Arnoud van Velzen and the investment company Holland Venture. Mr. Wim Buursen en Mr. Theo Klijn decided to sell Humeca due to their age. Change of ownership Since February 18th, Humeca BV has two owners: mr. Arnoud van Velzen (50) and the investment company Holland Venture. Mr. Arnoud van Velzen has been ...
By Humeca
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Suono Bio, Inc. Announces Exclusive Patent License with MIT for Portfolio of Granted IP Covering Formulation-Independent Drug Delivery
Suono Bio, Inc., the company revolutionizing the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, today announced it has entered into an exclusive world-wide patent license with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. The associated patents broadly cover foundational elements for the rapid, targeted delivery of drugs, including ...
By Suono Bio
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FUJIFILM VisualSonics Celebrates the First Installation of the Vevo F2 with Photoacoustics
FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc., a world leader in ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems, and subsidiary of FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc., recently celebrated the first installation of the new Vevo F2 imaging platform with photoacoustics at the Université de Tours, Tours, France, thanks to financial contributions from Région Centre Val de Loire and European Union. ...
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Jump in fall 2008 enrollments of first-time, full-time S&E graduate students
Enrollments of first-time, full-time graduate students in science and engineering (S&E) programs reached a record 108,819 in 2008, representing 20.6% of all graduate enrollments in these fields. The increase, 7.8% over fall 2007, was the largest 1-year increase in the last 10 years (table 1). For the first time since 2003, first-time enrollment in engineering fields grew faster among U.S. ...
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Suono Bio, Inc. Announces Strategic Investment by Fujifilm Corporation
Suono Bio, Inc. announced today a strategic investment by FUJIFILM Corporation to advance Suono Bio’s second-generation platform technology for the ultra-rapid, formulation-independent administration of therapeutics including biologics and gene therapies. Suono Bio leverages technology developed in the laboratory of Institute Professor Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
By Suono Bio
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Proa Medical Receives Positive Reception for Brella Vaginal Retractor at American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Meeting
Proa® Medical, Inc., developer of innovative and practical medical devices for women’s health, today announced that the company received significant positive feedback for its FDA-cleared Brella® Vaginal Retractor at the recent Annual Clinical Meeting of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the largest U.S. congress for women’s health, held April ...
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