BME Design Teams Make Headlines

We concluded the 2005-06 academic year with great progress at the BME Design Team Course front. During the last one year we have been extremely successful and below are some of the major accomplishments . . .

1. Received 39 translation/research based medical device development projects covering disciplines like cardiology, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, cardiac surgery, tissue engineering etc…
2. Funding from Guidant Foundation & Dr. Joseph Smith, Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Guidant
3. Organized BME Design Day which was widely received and well attended (~150 attendees)
4. Filed 3 Provisional patent applications based on student design team projects
5. And extensive media coverage

Below are a series of news articles on BME Design projects/courses from the recently concluded academic year (2005-06)

Baltimore Sun:
     "Reinventing the ties that bind during heart surgery"
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 JHU DOME:
     "Inventive Partners"
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JHU Headlines@Hopkins:
     "Students' Device May Improve Chest Closure after Heart Surgery"        HTML    PDF

Posted 6/19/06