National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

Ten years on, NIBIB’s partnership with The BRAIN Initiative® at @The National Institutes of Health has led to advances in neuroimaging and helped cultivate collaborative neuroscience research. Learn more about this decade-long push to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain and what’s to come in the latest BRAIN Blog by NIBIB director Bruce Tromberg: https://go.nih.gov/ESW5z8y #Neuroscience #Imaging #MedTech #Brain National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

While drug treatments can eliminate large populations of cancer cells in a tumor, they often give rise to resistant cells. Additional treatments with new drugs can help for a time but may also leave behind new resistant lines. At Penn State University, researchers are using cancer’s penchant for survival against itself. Their strategy entails genetically modifying tumors with a pair of genes that the researchers can use to ultimately steer tumors toward a more uniform, vulnerable cell population. The team used their approach to successfully eradicated tumors in an animal model. For more detail: https://go.nih.gov/GiDu0YK #Cancer #BiomedicalEngineering #DrugResistance Justin Pritchard National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Attending #ABRCMS2024 this week? Come visit us at booth 1419 to learn about our opportunities and resources in biomedical imaging and bioengineering. See you there!

Hey, medical imaging folks! As part of its monthly seminar series, MIDRC Data Commons is bringing in Christopher Meyer, Ph.D. to explain how you can use the MIDRC Biomedical Data Fabric Imaging Hub for cohort selection. Register here for the virtual event: https://lnkd.in/eHby_Ehv #Imaging #MedTech #DataSharing

As many as 25% of Black graduates in STEM in the U.S. earn their degrees at historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. But only about a third of these schools have an engineering program, with fewer still offering biomedical engineering. To help HBCUs build and sustain biomedical engineering programs, NIBIB has developed a new funding initiative. Today our institute has made its first round of grants to Delaware State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The grants will provide up to a total of $13.7 million to support the schools in planning and establishing new research centers and degree programs over seven years. Learn more about the Enhancing Biomedical Engineering, Imaging, and Technology Acceleration (eBEITA) initiative: https://go.nih.gov/O7dCwMC   #BiomedicalEngineering #BlackinSTEM #BlackInTech #HBCU

The National Institutes of Health has announced final winners of the RADx Tech Fetal Monitoring Challenge, a $2 million prize competition to accelerate the development of innovative medical technologies for fetal health diagnosis, detection, and monitoring. Judging of six finalists led to the selection of the three winning technologies — a device to detect fetal stress, an AI model for early detection of congenital heart disease (CHD), and a wearable ultrasound patch to monitor fetal vascular health — plus three technologies taking runner-up honors. Learn about their projects: https://go.nih.gov/1xmXUim #FetalMonitoring #BiomedicalEngineering #HealthTech #MedTech #RADxTech Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

“Many cancer diagnoses result from accidental discovery through imaging or when a patient has pain or bleeding—in other words, when the tumor is large enough to see or when it starts to affect the function of the surrounding tissue,” explained Johns Hopkins Medicine researcher David Gracias, Ph.D. “We’re aiming to create a new diagnostic screening paradigm that could find cancerous cells before a visible tumor develops, which could enable earlier cancer detection and jumpstart treatment.” Gracias and team are developing microgrippers, tiny star-shaped microbots with hinged arms that can fold into a claw-like shape, allowing them to grab tissue. These microgrippers could potentially sample an organ at hundreds of different areas and someday facilitate early detection of disease. Read more about their preclinical research focused on the upper urinary tract here: https://go.nih.gov/BthDZIU Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering #Cancer #BiomedicalEngineering #Medtech #Robotics

The NIH HEAL Initiative® is developing a strategic plan to establish research priorities that will guide the initiative’s efforts to help individuals affected by substance use and those living with pain. This strategic plan will build on past progress and ensure that the initiative continues to evolve and provide the greatest benefit, by drawing on public input and existing research frameworks. Learn more about the strategic planning process: https://go.nih.gov/NSVHi5O HEAL invites the research community and people with lived experience with pain to provide input on the HEAL pain research priorities at a series of public workshops. Please join us and make your voice heard! Register for an upcoming workshop: https://bit.ly/40eyepi  #nihHEALinitiative

At #BMES2024, NIBIB just presented the #DEBUTChallenge awards to the winning undergraduate design teams who showcased their innovative technological solutions to overcome challenges in women’s health, hearing loss, postoperative recovery, and more. The winners are receiving prizes totaling $160,000 to support further development of their technologies. Congrats! For more on the winning designs and the DEBUT Challenge, visit our site: https://go.nih.gov/c96fKI0 #Undergraduates #BiomedicalEngineering #MedTech Rice University School of Engineering and Computing McCormick School of Engineering University of California, Riverside

From studying vaping’s impact on lung health to developing 3D models for studying pregnancy complications, the 2024 Research Festival poster session allowed scientists from across The National Institutes of Health to showcase the cutting-edge science that they have been working on. Read on to learn about a few research projects presented at this celebration: https://go.nih.gov/PLCPTKb #NIH_IRP Pictured: Madison Hernandez of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Malique Jones of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Tommy Jones of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), Siobhan Lawler of the NIH Clinical Center (CC), and Ethan Greenstein of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).