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NSF grant unites diverse Virginia Tech team to improve in-home physical therapy , redirectScientists at the VTC Smart Rehab Lab are developing breakthrough, affordable technology and methods to connect stroke survivors to physical therapy at home through tele-rehabilitation. The lab was awarded $1.1 million by the National Science Foundation to continue development of its Semi-Automated Rehabilitation At Home (SARAH) project.
Date: Nov 24, 2020 -
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Socially distant cell growth: biomedical engineering experiential learning during a pandemic , redirectYong Woo Lee, associate professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics and instructor of the cohort’s biomedical engineering cell course, knew it was important to offer experiential learning methods to enable his students to understand cell growth and cell replication.
Date: Nov 24, 2020 -
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Biomedical engineering and mechanics faculty receive NSF grant to study oxygen delivery in insects , redirectAnne Staples and Jake Socha, both faculty members in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, received a grant from the Physics of Living Systems program at the National Science Foundation to examine airflow in insects.
Date: Nov 20, 2020 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists provide new evidence of elusive electrical pathway in the heart , redirectAssociate Professor Steven Poelzing and research Assistant Professor Gregory Hoeker, of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, recently published a study that helps explain why our classical understanding of heart beats and the mathematical models don’t add up.
Date: Nov 13, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech’s Animal Cancer Care and Research Center opening a grand occasion for region’s pets , redirectAccommodating the relocation and expansion of the oncology service from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Blacksburg, the brand-new Animal Cancer Care and Research Center is a vital part of the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, Virginia.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
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Doctoral student receives NSERC award to study innovative brain cancer treatment , redirectZerin Mahzabin Khan, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering and mechanics as well as the computational tissue engineering program, was awarded the Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral award from NSERC for her work developing a minimally invasive treatment for glioblastoma. She is the first-ever Virginia Tech student recipient of this award.
Date: Nov 05, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech scientists, engineers to talk about steps to stop cancer in virtual public session , redirectA year ago, Virginia Tech united its biomedical and technical expertise into a Cancer Research Alliance to take on the second leading cause of death in the United States. Now, scientists and engineers will talk about some leading-edge projects in breast cancer, brain cancer, and noninvasive cancer treatments in a public Zoom discussion at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Date: Nov 03, 2020 -
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'It’s science and creativity': Alumnus Victor Stewart is half-NASA engineer, half-YouTube chef , redirectWhat do delicious food, mechanical design engineering, and corporate advertisements have in common? Virginia Tech alumnus Victor Stewart.
Date: Oct 26, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech researchers still have much to learn from flying snakes , redirectWith a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech will continue to study flying snakes - specifically the fluid mechanics of deforming articulated bodies, extensible to movement of flexible bodies in other contexts.
Date: Oct 16, 2020 -
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Pamela VandeVord elected fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society , redirectPamela VandeVord, the N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, has been named a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Date: Oct 15, 2020
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