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Virginia Tech research could lead to better treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , articleDuchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare form of muscular dystrophy that primarily affects boys, is incurable. Although treatment that has revolved around symptom management has proved difficult, Virginia Tech researchers have found a way to potentially improve the available methods.
Date: Mar 31, 2021 -
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To fly drones over roads safely, study what would happen if they crash , articleDrone researchers and injury biomechanics experts teamed up with State Farm to collect some of the first data describing the outcome of a potential collision between a drone and a moving car.
Date: Mar 24, 2021 -
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Like cars on a highway: Researchers dig deeper into how migrating cells interact in the body , articleUnderstanding the ways migrating cells react to one another is essential to predicting how cells change and evolve and how they react in applications, such as wound healing and drug delivery.
Date: Mar 22, 2021 -
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Five graduate students named Bouchet Honor Society Scholars , articleVirginia Tech is one of 18 university partners with Bouchet Society chapters. The society’s goal is to create a network of scholars and professionals who “serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy,” according to its webpage.
Date: Mar 16, 2021 -
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Engineering mechanics graduate student receives Liviu Librescu Memorial Fellowship , articleLisha Yuan, engineering mechanics doctoral student in biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, received the fellowship because of her impressive achievements and service in the areas of leadership, scholarly excellence, teaching, community service, and research.
Date: Mar 15, 2021 -
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The business of conservation: Pamplin students experience real-world consulting with help from engineering faculty , articleIn a management course led by Dirk Buengel, business students were able to engage in consulting for a real-world startup with an innovative mission: stopping the illegal timber trade. Hal Holmes and Eli Vlaisavljevich, assistant professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics, represented the client organization, Conservation X Labs.
Date: Mar 10, 2021 -
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Tumors and centrosomes: Researchers receive grant to investigate cancer evolution , articleUnlike many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, biological cells are not isolated from the outside world. This relationship between cell and environment also applies to the development of cancer, which a team of Virginia Tech scientists is now researching with the help of a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Date: Feb 24, 2021 -
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Raffaella De Vita elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering , articleDe Vita joined Virginia Tech’s biomedical engineering and mechanics department as a visiting professor in 2006 and as a full-time faculty member one year later.
Date: Feb 15, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute graduate student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy , articleHassan Farah, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student, has been awarded a $98,000 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund his remaining predoctoral research. Farah is studying the limb biomechanics, joint movements, and loading in children with cerebral palsy.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Hampton Clay Gabler III, professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics , articleGabler, professor and chair of the undergraduate biomedical engineering program in biomedical engineering and mechanics, was the Samuel Herrick Professor at Virginia Tech, where he enjoyed a long, illustrious, and rewarding career.
Date: Jan 21, 2021
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