Research
- CU Engineering experienced another record-breaking year for research funding in 2021, receiving $150 million overall, eclipsing the 2020 total of $134 million.
- The Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC) and the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility will host a joint virtual webinar from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 18 via Zoom.
- Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger is among the faculty studying what should be done with unusable, discarded plastic waste that can harm the environment.
- Day one of the LVC competition will feature bioscience research and technology, including work from biomedical engineering professors Nick Bottenus and Corey Neu.
- After a year when the nation experienced a shortage of mechanical ventilators to help treat patients with severe COVID-19 complications, Professor Mark Borden's company Respirogen presents another treatment option: oxygen microbubbles.
- Professors Sarah Calve and Virginia Ferguson's tissue engineering project is one of three space-based experiments that recently received a NSF grant to help patients on Earth.
- Laurel Hind, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is studying the innate immune response to infection using engineered models.
- CU Boulder researchers have teamed up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to use glucose from our body to power small medical devices.
- Jesse Duran, a senior at Fort Lewis College in Durango, spent the summer working on research projects in the lab of Shu-Wei Huang, an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering program.
- BME Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger works to harness the immune system in a targeted way.