WPI Biomedical Engineering Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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We welcome Dr. Ge Wang, Professor @RPI_BME as our final Distinguished Lecturer this year. His talk will highlight how foundation models, generative AI, and agentic AI are transforming medical imaging, improving image quality, and solving challenging inverse problems in medicine.

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Our seminar speaker is Dr. Jiawei Yang from WPI Mechanical & Materials Engineering. He uses interdisciplinary approaches to design modular hydrogels that tune tissue adhesion and mechanics for repair, from tough bonding across tissues to anti-adhesion coatings to resist fibrosis.

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We welcome Dr. Eno Ebong, Associate Professor @NortheasternCOE as our Distinguished Lecturer. Her talk explores how blood flow regulates vascular health through the endothelial glycocalyx. Insights into its disruption reveal disease mechanisms that guide therapeutic development.

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Mohammed Salman Shazeeb @UMassChan. His talk highlights how quantitative MRI biomarkers track rare pediatric neurodegeneration in gene therapy trials and map ischemic brain regions in stroke, turning complex scans into clinical decisions.

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We welcome Dr. Abraham Joy, Professor and Chair of @NUBioE1 as today’s Distinguished Lecturer. His talk describes peptide‑mimetic biomaterials that merge natural and synthetic matrices to combat biofilms and infection and enable 3D‑printed scaffolds that support wound healing.

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Katie Hixon @Dartmouth. She is visiting as part of the NE Speaker Exchange. Her talk will explore how aging and radiation alter tendon and bone healing microenvironments and how targeting these microenvironments can improve musculoskeletal healing.

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Sarah Rooney from @udbme. Her talk will focus on the development of a sophomore-level design course that builds early BME identity through team projects and Voice of the Customer videos with medical device users that foster empathy and guide design.

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We welcome Dr. Rong Wang from WPI Chemistry and Biochemistry as today’s Distinguished Lecturer. She combines material science, biochemistry, bioengineering and nanotechnology to bridge gaps between disease origins and personalized therapies for tissue repair and regeneration.

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Our seminar speaker is Dr. Wouter Hoogkamer from @UMassAmherst Dept. of Kinesiology. His work examines how innovations in running footwear and technology have changed running performance and how they can be leveraged for rehabilitation in patients with neurological conditions.

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Loris Fichera from @WPI_Robotics. He focuses on laser technologies for surgery with an emphasis on sensing and control of complex interactions between laser energy and human tissue. His work aims to usher in a new generation of laser surgery.

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Even more posters at #BMES2025 from undergraduates and REU participants!

Learn about their work on testing luminescent films for wearable oxygen sensors and evaluating bubble CPAP devices for preterm babies under different environmental and pressure conditions.

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Ready for another day at #BMES2025!

We have graduate student and undergraduate REU presenters talking about their work on using leaves as for skin regeneration applications, modeling vocal vibration on cells in a dish, and printing 3D vascular grafts for dialysis patients.

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We're not done yet at #BMES2025!

WPI BME is represented two more times this afternoon with a graduate student presentation on vascular biomechanics (3:45-4:00 PM, Room 30A) and faculty facilitator for a networking session with #BlackInBME (3:45-5:15 PM, Room 28D).

Great day!

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Even more posters!

Learn about design solutions to prevent leaks in ostomy bags (Poster T24) and tissue engineering approaches to modeling uterine smooth muscle tissue (Poster Y13) and regenerating muscle tissue (Poster Z19).

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WPI BME is ready to present at #BMES2025! We have 9 poster presentations in the 10-11am session from undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

Learn about how we're using biomechanics to address breast cancer (Poster J19) and traumantic brain injury (Posters K7 and K9).

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We've also got poster presentations focused on new approaches to biomedical engineering education (Poster M26), analyzing brain changes in contact sports (Poster M30), and assessing pediatric heart valves (Poster S4). #BMES2025

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Drug Discovery World featured Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Catherine Whittington. In this Q&A, she discusses how her lab is using disease modeling to help patients. @DDWJournal @cfwhitt

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Today’s we have 3 seminar speakers from our graduate program! Zoe Vittum, Chaokai Zhang, and Stephen Larson, all PhD candidates, will be sharing their research in anticipation of speaking at the @BMESociety Annual Meeting later this week. We’re excited to hear about their work!

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Bashima Islam from @wpi_ece. Her work aims to broaden the scope of multimodal intelligence with sustainable systems to hear, sense, and reason with the world. Collectively, these projects advance human-centered applications and core AI methods.

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Today’s seminar speaker is Dr. Ulkuhan Guler from @wpi_ece. Her seminar will focus on developing wearable devices for noninvasive monitoring of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressures to support comprehensive respiratory and metabolic monitoring for patients.