Bioengineering

Rice names new round of IDEA winners

Six teams of Rice researchers have won backing from the InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards.

People, papers and presentations October 5, 2020

Rice alumnae Elisa Arango, Susannah Dittmar, Lauren Payne and Sanika Rane are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their Universally Friendly Obturator, a customizable device developed at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen that simplifies radiation therapy for patients with cervical cancer.

Deep learning gives drug design a boost

A computational tool created at Rice University may help pharmaceutical companies expand their ability to investigate the safety of drugs.

The heat is on for building 3D artificial organ tissues

Bioengineers at Rice and the University of Washington are devising a hot new technology to remotely control the positioning and timing of cell functions to build 3D artificial, living tissues.

Rice rises to No. 16 in 2021 U.S. News rankings

HOUSTON – (Sept. 14, 2020) – Rice University moved up to the No. 16 ranking among the best national universities in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook, which was published today.

Three research teams earn Dunn Awards

Three teams of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have been named winners of the 2020 John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Awards.

Pope picks Rice professor for science academy

Rice University physicist José Onuchic has been appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow

Professor Oden is director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.

Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells

Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.

Martí named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

FDA OKs manufacturer’s version of Rice ventilator

An enhanced version of the ApolloBVM designed by Rice University engineers has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an emergency resuscitator for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contact-tracing software takes top prize at Rice Design-A-Thon

Top honors went to a team of Rice engineering students who created software to approximate COVID-19 contact tracing in schools.

Global health students’ innovation not stopped by COVID-19

Students at Rice University and in Malawi present device designs to deal with the COVID-19 crisis during the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health Intern Showcase.

Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels

Bioengineers keep cells alive in lab-grown tissues by creating networks of branching blood vessels from templates of 3D-printed sugar.

NSF RAPID grant supports COVID-19 'computational pipeline'

Lydia Kavraki wins a NSF Rapid Response Research grant to help identify SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins for vaccine development.