U-M BME

Provides leadership in education, training and research by translating science and engineering to solve challenges in medicine and life sciences.

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A team of University of Michigan researchers has demonstrated a new optical sensing approach that could improve how scientists and clinicians image biological tissue deep inside the body. Read more: https://t.co/YEJl87JOj6

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U-M BME research suggests that nanoparticles delivered through the bloodstream can influence circulating immune cells, encouraging them to enter the lung and adopt behaviors associated with resolving fibrosis rather than intensifying it. Read more: https://t.co/e6G9CCf69b

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An article in the Journal of Neuroscience highlighting research led by U-M BME Prof. Lonnie Shea, with Kate Griffin and Sarah Hocevar, is flipping the script on how to treat spinal cord trauma. Read more: https://t.co/DFIPNUSoEw

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U-M BME Professor Jan Stegemann received the Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) on Tuesday. Read more: https://t.co/XC9D8Tyv07

[Michigan Neurosurgery @umichneuro]

A neurosurgical team led by @matthew_willsey & @Aditya_S_Pandey completed the first-in-human implantation of a @paradromics brain-computer interface, the Connexus BCI, as part of a clinical trial for patients with difficulty speaking.

Read more: https://t.co/lHVbtSxq6g

[Matthew Willsey @matthew_willsey]

Our team is committed to researching brain-computer interfaces and their potential to help patients with motor and speech difficulties. We are very exited to be part of this clinical trial to investigate the Connexus BCI.

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A new study, led by U-M BME Associate Professor Dr. Brendon Baker, examines a long-understudied participant in the devastating chronic disease characterized by progressive scarring of the lungs: the lung’s extensive network of blood vessels. Read: https://t.co/VTIfMDnkSh

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The NIH has awarded a 5-year grant expected to total about $2.5 million to U-M researchers Aaron Morris and co-investigator James Moon, with an aim to engineer precision biomaterials to track, recruit, and study specialized immune cells. Read more: https://t.co/YtvmOLxDJa

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Congratulations to BME Prof. James Weiland for receiving the Endowment for Basic Sciences 2026 Teaching Award and Yike Liu, who received the EBS Research Staff Award for BME, during an awards ceremony on May 27. Read more: https://t.co/efPHGQcx6m

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In a new study, U-M Biomedical Engineering researchers have harnessed machine learning to successfully predict the metabolic inner workings of nearly 1,000 different cancer cell lines. Read more: https://t.co/r6wkSDNzUB

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Researchers at University of Michigan's Biomedical Engineering are working to engineer functional, living cardiac tissue grafts that can restore heart function to address the global health crisis of heart failure. Read: https://t.co/F5L5HPozOP

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The Engineering in Cardiovascular Medicine workshop on 8/6-8/7 in Ann Arbor is a two-day event aiming to bring together PIs and trainees to share the latest developments in engineering and translational research. For more details: https://t.co/Hu2deuLIOX

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About 200 attendees gathered on May 13 for the annual BME Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture, a day of faculty and student research presentations, student awards and the annual Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture. Read more: https://t.co/aT6I849VAC

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Project MESA, which designs and delivers portable gynecological exam tables that can be transported to health posts and used in low-resource settings, began in August 2010 as a U-M engineering student effort within M-HEAL. Read more: https://t.co/fY5yJlzIqu

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🌸 May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth 🌸 Support mental health care by purchasing the 2026 Mental Health Awareness T‑shirt: “Bloom Where You Are Planted.” Net proceeds benefit Michigan Medicine’s Psychiatric Emergency Services. https://t.co/17bzIPBYSK #MentalHealthMatters

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U-M BME congratulates all of our 2026 graduates! M Go Grad! M Go Blue!

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The 2026 Biomedical Engineering Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture is coming Wednesday, May 13, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at NCRC Building 18. Read more and register: https://t.co/he6GzVYwJQ

[Michigan Engineering @UMengineering]

We’re excited to announce Michigan Engineering’s incoming dean, Mingyan Liu. Currently serving as our Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and previously as chair of ECE, Liu is internationally recognized for her research, which has increasingly focused on cybersecurity.

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Interested in the history of our @UMichMedSchool and all that it gave rise to?

Watch medical historian Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D. give a @MichStateMedSoc talk tonight at 7 - or register to get a recording to watch later: https://t.co/Zqj1P9nGVH #umich @umichBentley @UMIntMed

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U-M BME Assistant Prof. Aaron Morris has received an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to understand why certain wounds fail to heal. @MorrisBioEng Read more: https://t.co/LegS2dwaie