Engineering | School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

One of the current paradigms in cancer treatment is not to treat a tumor itself. Rather, therapeutics can focus on a tumor’s microenvironment — the area where tumor cells and a patient’s healthy tissues collide. Mehdi Nikkhah, an assistant professor of biomedical...

Graduate trainees (Masters, PhDs, Post-Doctorate, Medical) are invited to apply to the Neurotechnology Entrepreneurship Workshop hosted in Phoenix, Arizona from December 13-15, 2019. This workshop will provide intensive and rigorous training in the areas of: ideation,...

SBHSE students; Mariam El Sheikha and Kelsey Boos are members of one of three ASU engineering teams headed to London this summer to advance their projects during the PLuS Engineering Summer School, then present them at an international showcase event. Their device is...

As the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer is a focal point in both clinical research and health care fields, but not all cancers are created equal. Read more on ASU...

Dr. Bradley Greger, Associate Professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, in collaboration with Columbia University, co-authored the paper “Reduced Repertoire of Cortical Microstates and Neuronal Ensembles in Medically Induced Loss of...

Congratulations to Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering who was named as one of the 2019 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators. Read more...

In research appearing in the advanced online edition of the journal Nature Communications, Samira Kiani (School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering), Karen Anderson and their colleagues describe a method of rendering the gene editing tool of CRISPR-Cas9...

Congratulation’s to School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering undergraduate student, Gabrielle Mills, a recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Miss Mills will attend the University of Cambridge for a doctorate in chemical engineering. Read...

Congratulations to SBHSE Assistant Professor, Dr. Samira Kiani, who has become the very first ASU recipient of the Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellow. Read more...

Vikram Kodibagkar is researching new ways of using biomedical imaging to make cancer treatments more effective — and making students aware of career possibilities in the field. Read more...

Arizona State University researcher James Abbas is part of a multi-institutional research team that has developed a new prosthetic hand system with a fully implanted, wirelessly controlled neurostimulator that has restored "feeling" to a person with a hand amputation....

Whether mathematicians or marathoners, those who chase mastery often run into a wall that blocks further progress. Now, eight U.S. Department Of Defense brain studies, one at Arizona State University, aim to help soldiers break through that barrier. The research,...

Dignity Health and Arizona State University have announced the 2018 awardees of the Collaborative Strategic Initiatives Program, which offers grants to ASU faculty and Dignity Health investigators for collaborative research projects that accelerate the health and...

Two Arizona State University professors are among the first recipients of Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) grants from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. The $2,600,000, five-year grant will fund the first study of the genome editing technology CRISPR to...

Congratulations to Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah who has been selected as one of the CMBE 2018 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering awardees. Dr. Nikkhah will present his paper in a special, two-part invited platform session on Friday, October 19 at the 2018...