Faculty Research
Jul 28, 2025
Understanding Bone Change From Evolution To Everyday Movement
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, in collaboration with Brown University, was awarded a $625,000 NSF grant for “Bones and Burrowing: Mechanoadaptation in phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology of Peromyscus.”
Jul 23, 2025
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat Displays Distinctive Wing-Bone Morphological and Material Properties
Bioengineering alumni Xiaoxiang Ma, MS’23, and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, published their research on “A proximodistal gradient in bone structure and mechanics in the wings of Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata” in The Anatomical Record.
Jun 09, 2025
Skalak Award Honorable Mention for Paper on Vascular Remodeling During Pregnancy
Ana I. Vargas, PhD’25, bioengineering, BioE Associate Professor Chiara Bellini and MIE Associate Professor Rouzbeh Amini received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Skalak Award for their paper on “Vascular Remodeling During Late-Gestation Pregnancy: An In-Vitro Assessment of the Murine Ascending Thoracic Aorta.”
Jun 04, 2025
Patent for Hybrid Nanopore Technology for Biomolecule Sensing
COS/BioE Professor Meni Wanunu received a patent for “Lipid-free anchoring of thermophilic bacteriophage G20c portal adapter into solid-state nanopores.”
May 20, 2025
Patent for Robotic Aquaculture System
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Joseph Ayers, MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar, ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic, and CEE/MES Associate Professor Amy Mueller were awarded a patent for “Robotic aquaculture system and methods.”
May 02, 2025
Short Bursts of Mechanical Stress on Epithelial Cells Can Trigger Lasting Biological Response
Ning Wang, BioE professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, and a team of researchers published “Mechanomemory After Short Episodes of Intermittent Stresses Induces YAP Translocation via Increasing F-actin” in APL Bioengineering.
Apr 22, 2025
Once Extinct Plant Gene Could Impact New Drug Discovery
COS/BioE Professor Jing-Ke Wen applied a new method called molecular gene resurrection to repair a defunct gene found in the coyote tobacco plant that encodes cyclic peptide nanamin. This peptide could be used in new cancer treatments, antibiotics development, and insect protection for crops. The research was published in PNAS.
Apr 09, 2025
Patent for Crack-Resistant Composites Utilizing Herringbone Architecture
MIE Professor Randall Erb and BioE/MIE Affiliated Faculty Alain Karma were awarded a patent for “Ceramic-reinforced polymer composites with herringbone architecture.”