Professor Cameron McIntyre recently secured a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Research Program to better understand how electrodes can record and stimulate the human brain. Discover his plans for holographic visualization platforms to improve complex brain surgeries.

Dear Colleagues,

It was a pleasure to catch up with many of you at this year’s Biomedical Engineers Society meeting in San Diego. While many of our activities were scaled back compared to years prior, the dedication and passion shown by our entire community for our important work remains undimmed.

While we all work to find our footing amidst continuing headwinds, I’m pleased to share with you that progress in critical areas of research is still possible. Below, you will find a few examples of Duke Biomedical Engineering faculty and students who have recently secured new funding sources for their continued efforts.

Sharon Gerecht, PhD
Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Paul M. Gross Distinguished Professor

Professor John Hickey explores how cells coordinate and respond to their environment in both healthy and diseased states. With a new NSF CAREER award, he's working to understand how factors in the cell’s environment can influence the state of individual cells. Discover how the work could help better control cell fate for cell therapies.

Professor Ophelia Venturelli was awarded two NIH grants to advance microbiome research: one to study the interactions between gut microbes and their host and second to investigate limiting the colonization of multi-drug-resistant microbes in the human gut. Find out how these efforts could improve human health.

“Duke is home to some of the most impressive graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the country, and I’m glad they are receiving recognition for their important and exciting research.”

—DUKE BME CHAIR SHARON GERECHT

on nine BME gradate students winning external fellowships

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