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Nash and Swingle join leadership team at Rice Biotech Launch Pad

July 14, 2025

The Rice Biotech Launch Pad has appointed Amanda Nash and Kelsey L. Swingle to its leadership team.

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Wearables, AI and the future of personalized care: Rice experts available to speak on digital health topics

July 10, 2025

Rice experts are available to comment on digital health topics, including AI, wearable and ingestible devices, imaging and robotics.

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Rise in measles cases continues throughout US, reaching highest level in over 30 years

July 10, 2025

Rice experts are available to provide insight into the measles outbreak.

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Rice engineering student honored for research to reduce surgical complications

July 7, 2025

Chihtong “Lily” Lee recently earned second place in the undergraduate category at the ASME SB3C Summer Bioengineering Conference, a competition hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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NSF CAREER Award funds Rice project to shrink hospital-grade imaging into wearable devices

July 7, 2025

Rice’s Lei Li wins NSF CAREER Award to develop a new generation of wearable medical imaging technology capable of visualizing deep tissue function in real time.

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Rice bioengineer looks to mitochondria as key to heart failure recovery

June 30, 2025

Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure.

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Music, memory and the power of emotion: Rice study reveals how music influences what we remember

June 25, 2025

Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories.

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Rice and Baylor College of Medicine host AI and health equity symposium

June 25, 2025

The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environment to help reduce health disparities. Community Health Symposium: AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment

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Mark Hensley joins RBL LLC as a senior adviser

June 24, 2025

RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced the addition of Mark Hensley as a senior adviser.

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RBL LLC welcomes James Watson to board of directors

June 17, 2025

RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors.

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Rice and Houston Methodist name Chatterjee executive director of the Digital Health Institute

June 13, 2025

The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as its executive director, effective May 1.

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Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative kicks off seminar series with Nobel laureate James Allison

June 12, 2025

The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison.

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Rice360’s Global Health Fellowship program is finding ways to engineer hope

June 10, 2025

When Mary Seifu Tirfie graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering from Addis Ababa University in 2023, she wasn’t just earning a diploma — she was stepping into a global mission.

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Targeting mitochondria to fight leukemia: Rice-led research team pursues new treatment strategies

June 4, 2025

Acute myeloid leukemia remains one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of blood cancer, even as treatments have advanced in recent years.

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Engineered with heart: Student-designed device could streamline imaging for cardiac procedures

June 4, 2025

A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing the primary physician to maintain precise control of the catheter without needing a second set of hands.

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