Boston University Biomedical Engineering

Calling all prospective grad, postdoc and faculty applicants for BU BME: Come meet us at #BMES2025 in San Diego! Learn about our exciting research, pick up some swag, and meet some of us! Booth #901.

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Shannon Stott as the new Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering! As a visionary leader at the nexus of engineering, biology, her work has advanced technologies that illuminate the intricacies of cancer and metastasis. tinyurl.com/5aau9nmp

Congratulations to @johntngo.bsky.social and students on their excellent work!

We are thrilled to host Dr. Stephanie Fraley @fraleylab.bsky.social from UCSD at BU this week! Join us Friday in PHO211 to hear about her exciting work in cell migration and cancer metastasis. #BME #Seminar #BUevents

Boston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program support will also spur investment in early-career faculty

Congratulations to Professor Joyce Wong and colleagues for their new NIH K12 grant to support women's health research here at BU! www.bu.edu/articles/202...

A huge thank you to @johnawhitephd.bsky.social who has concluded his time as BME Chair. He has been an incredible, supportive leader and we wish him the best in his next adventures. Luckily, we are in good hands! Professor Mary Dunlop will serve as Interim Chair until later this year. Stay tuned...

With an award from the Hartwell Foundation, BU's Samagya Banskota and colleagues are working on a novel method of developing treatments for “rare” genetic diseases that, taken together, affect millions of people.
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A BU team has begun to disentangle cognitive and motor processes, with implications in the near term for the research community and in the long term for people with neurological conditions.
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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Meet John Ngo, Winner of the 2025 ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog Read an exclusive interview with Prof. Ngo covering his research, his history with the journal, and advice to early career researchers.

Honored to be the 2025 recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award. Hope to see you in Houston for #SEED2025!

Standardized droplet preamplification method for downstream circulating cell-free DNA analysis Circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) can be found in blood and other biofluids and is a minimally invasive biomarker for several pathological processes. As tumors become more invasive, an increasing ...

I’m thrilled that the *first* Pratt Lab paper is now out in BioTechniques! This work builds on our published MED-Amp assay, which improves ctDNA detection from low-input (<10 ng/mL) plasma by ~40% compared to targeted NGS and conventional ddPCR. (1/8)

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