Engineering | School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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...

  Samira Kiani, M.D. (PI), leads an eye-opening discussion on the groundbreaking medical advances that could be on the horizon with gene editing. Dr. Kiani is the principal investigator at Kiani lab located on the campus of Arizona State University. She holds a...

CRISPR has been heralded for some time for the possibilities it presents to harness and enhance the power of the human body to heal itself. Now Arizona State University researchers in collaboration with colleagues around the country have announced an advancement in...

For recent biomedical engineering graduate Lexi Bounds, it was an enthusiasm for soccer that unexpectedly led her to find a new passion in the sciences. “In high school I read a journal article that described a group of scientists who had ‘grown’ a soccer ball with...

If synthetic biology can “catch fire,” few areas of science and engineering could match it for having as dramatic an impact across such a broad a range of human needs. That’s the prediction from Karmella Haynes, an Arizona State University assistant professor of...

SBHSE students, Danh Truong and Supriya Nagarju, SBSHE Assistant Professor Mehdi Nikkhah and their University of Arizona collaborator Professor Ghassan Moueimne, have had their published article, Microfluidic Tumor-Vascular Model to Study Breast Cancer Cell Invasion...

The startup team, comprised of three ASU students, earned $100,000 An Arizona State University team won $100,000 at the ASU Innovation Open on Friday to fund their business, which makes a device that relieves anxiety.Read more...

Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people around the world. In the U.S. alone, more than 5 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease, and by 2050, that number could reach 16 million, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Alzheimer’s disease also is...

Stem cells possess great potential for the study and treatment of disease. Scientists can use them to grow lab-created miniature organ-like tissues called organoids that have characteristics and behaviors similar to our own organs, which can help the development of...