TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH:
Engineer-clinician collaborations yield innovative,
applied solutions
Funded via the W.H. Coulter
Translational Research Partnership in Biomedical Engineering,
these research projects recently concluded in year one of the
partnership. This partnership fosters early-stage collaborations
between University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering researchers
and practicing physicians that will enable researchers to deliver
their advances more quickly to patients. |
Seven new translational research projects launched
The University of Wisconsin W.H. Coulter Translational
Research Partnership in Biomedical Engineering oversight committee has
selected its second round of research projects for funding.
• Professor David
Beebe and Pediatrics Associate Professor Carol Diamond received
$100,000 for their project, “Non-electric, disposable drug-delivery
device for hemophilia.”
• Associate Professor Walter
Block and Radiology Assistant Professor Amish
Raval received $100,000 for their project, “MRI-guided
endomyocardial injection catheter
• Assistant Professor Kristyn
Masters, Neurosurgery Postgraduate Trainee Roham
Moftakhar and Associate Professor Wendy
Crone (also engineering physics) received $79,000 for their project,
“Enhanced delivery of liquid embolic agents for aneurysm occlusion.”
• Masters
and Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Takushi
Kohmoto received $129,000 for their project, “Bioactive
polyurethane-based materials for vascular applications.”
• Assistant Professor William
Murphy and Raval received $110,000 for
their project, “Controlled protein delivery technology for treatment
of ischemic disease.”
• Assistant Professor Brenda
Ogle, Transplantation Surgery Assistant Professor Luis
Fernandez, Molecular Biology Senior Information Processing Consultant
Kevin Eliceiri and Surgery Associate Scientist
Matthew Hanson received $100,000 for their project, “Multichannel
multiphoton flow cytometry for the characterization of pancreatic islets.”
• Professor Ray
Vanderby, Assistant Professor Lee
Kaplan (also orthopedics and rehabilitation) and Associate Professor
Patricia
J. Keely (also pharmacology) received $99,000 for their project,
“Acoustoelastic analysis of ultrasound waves to determine in vivo
tissue strains and material properties: technology transfer to medical
imaging systems.”
The Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational
Research encourages practicing physicians to collaborate with engineers.
The center actively develops partnerships, cultivates new translational
research projects based on clinical practice needs, identifies and supports
promising biomedical engineering collaborative research projects, and
rapidly translates solutions into the clinic by fully using UW-Madison
campus resources for technology transfer and commercialization.
