UCLA Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society

02/03/2016

On campus event!

15/01/2016

What an event!

EMBS brings together inspired and inspiring thought leaders who envision the real possibilities of EHR and are bringing us breakthrough solutions.

28/11/2015

Researchers have developed a system that uses an electric shockwave to extract salt and other impurities out of salty or contaminated water, and say it could be scaled up for use in desalination or water purification plants, or be used to clean the...

03/11/2015

Lab to Real Life: Di Carlo Launches Biotech Firms Oct 29, 2015 For bioengineering professor Dino Di Carlo, publishing a paper is not the endgame in doing research, and earning a degree is just the beginning for students. Di Carlo has helped launch three biotechnology companies based on research perf…

30/10/2015

A flexible skin device capable of track ing blood flow could monitor the health of patients around the clock

09/05/2015

Chronic pain reduced with no side effects by delivering drugs directly to the site of injury

21/04/2015

And it’s tipped to hit the market by 2016. http://bit.ly/1Du1LWD

[ScienceAlert]

27/01/2015

Hi all,

SBMT is calling out for student volunteers to participate in the activities of the 12th Annual World Congress of SBMT on March 6-8th 2015 at the LA Convention Center. This is an incredible and unique opportunity for students to have access to this world-class scientific event and to interact with and learn from world-renowned scientists and professionals. Students will have a chance to meet rocket scientists and neurosurgeons under the same roof and get involved in making scientific history. We are looking for enthusiastic undergraduates, medical, and graduate students/alumni to assist us with audio-visual, organization, management of presentation room, being a liaison between speakers, and fulfilling other duties. The first 30 volunteers will have both the convention’s admission fee and the SBMT student membership fee waved. Individuals who volunteer for all three day will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Interested individuals should contact Shahdad Sherkat: Director of Volunteers at SBMT.

In the email please mention you are a UCLA student and learned about this opportunity through UCLA IEEE EMBS Chapter.

Email [email protected]
Phone #:3107090413

16/01/2015

Researchers develop a new implant which can be applied to the spinal cord directly, without causing inflammation or damage.

30/12/2014

Focused ultrasound lets surgeons treat brain diseases without opening the skull

05/12/2014

Researchers develop clothes that can monitor and transmit biomedical info on wearers: http://bit.ly/1FQoCgK

06/11/2014

Hi everyone,

We will be having another meeting this Thursday 11/6/14 at 4 PM at Engineering V (5) room 5101 !!

We will be going over future goals and projects for the EMBS to be tackling in this upcoming year. Undergraduate freshmen will be attending this meeting following an announcement made earlier this week in BE 10, so it will be nice to have upperclassmen and graduate students from diverse engineering backgrounds attending.

Upcoming projects:
1) Open source coding projects with specific bioengineering fields in mind for: Matlab, Labview, COMSOL, Solidworks, etc. These coding projects will be made available through the EMBS website allowing students to go at their own pace in learning these programs with no deadlines. The coding projects will be designed by students for students wanting to go into particular fields emphasizing learning programs to the means of skills for relevant research projects and objectives.

2) Start-up competitions: We want to get ideas from doctors (if you know any) to start creating think tanks within our group. We will assign underclassmen to these projects to understand the basics in approaching projects: literature searches, experiment protocol design, finding people of different backgrounds to collaborate with, etc. These projects submitted to us through "unofficial" means will be allowed to be pursued for start-up competitions.

3) BSC, UCLA BE collaboration: These projects will follow the same design as start-up competitions but with the long term goal for undergraduate capstone design course. These projects would ideally be more technical and much more in depth in terms of complications to allow a longer time frame for students to wrestle with and answer the research project/question.

4) David Geffen collaboration: We want to ultimately reach a point where we can send engineers to shadow doctors. The doctors will be of various specialties and fields. The exposure to the engineers will allow ideas to be better generated as students will be shadowing doctors not to shadow doctors but to ask fundamental questions about procedures or biomedical tools/devices within the clinical setting and how to improve them. If you know of any doctors wanting to collaborate with EMBS, then please contact us and tell us.

Thank you,
EMBS

05/09/2014

Sensors and smartphones could give 4 billion people access to health care

03/09/2014

New Technology May Identify Tiny Strains In Body Tissues Before Injuries Occur - http://bit.ly/1lwUXoI

25/08/2014

An implantable microfluidic lens that reads ocular pressure could provide 24-h home-monitoring for glaucoma patients

11/08/2014

What medical applications for this open source device would you propose?

A new brain-computer interface lets DIYers access their brain waves

15/07/2014

Small study shows researchers were able to diagnose condition from certain proteins identified in the retinas of patients

27/05/2014

As physicians and surgeons explore how to use Google Glass, the UC Irvine School of Medicine is taking steps to become the first in the nation to integrate the wearable computer into its four-year curriculum – from first- and second-year anatomy courses and clinical skills training to third- and fourth-year hospital rotations.

Leaders of the medical school have confidence that faculty and students will benefit from Glass’s unique ability to display information in a smartphone-like, hands-free format; being able to communicate with the Internet via voice commands; and being able to securely broadcast and record patient care and student training activities using proprietary software compliant with the 1996 federal Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act. http://buff.ly/1omkzER

24/05/2014

Recently showcased on CNN, Fox News, and Extra, Surgical Theater, LLC combines the science of flight simulation with advanced CT/MRI imaging technology (DICOM) to reconstruct dynamic and interactive 3D models with life-like tissue reaction and accurate modeling of surgery tools. Surgical Theater utilizes flight simulation technology to offer a suite of products based on 3D imaging technology and augmented reality that allows a surgeon to perform a real-life "fly through" of a “patient-specific” surgery; the Surgical Rehearsal Platform (SRP), the Collaborative Theater, and the newly launched Surgical Navigation Advanced Platform (SNAP - pending FDA clearance). http://buff.ly/1nbP2px

23/05/2014

New focused ultrasound arrays can temporarily breach the blood-brain barrier

17/05/2014

A team comprised of CEA-Leti, Debiotech SA, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Mecaplast SA is a finalist in the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Awards. They are nominated for a MEMS-based micro-needle that allows pain-free and precise injection of up to 0.5ml of vaccines and other medications in a few seconds.

The innovative DebioJect micro-needle injection device, manufactured by Lausanne, Switzerland-based Debiotech, is designed to overcome the challenges of classic intradermal delivery techniques, while improving accurate site-and-dose delivery. Unlike other intradermal delivery systems, DebioJect is a hollow micro-needle with a unique side-protected delivery hole. By placing the hole on the side of the needle at a precise depth, the skin can be punctured without coring and without removing any tissue. http://buff.ly/1va0XFy

17/05/2014

This week on the Pulse, we’re getting invisible tattoos containing our health information, using glucometers to track our response to food and exercise, helping patients with sleep apnea get untroubled rest, and developing the next generation walker.

Check out the video at http://buff.ly/1mvQrUX

17/05/2014

Patient care non-surgical bots, a 'softer' side of medical robotics

This robot is finally proving that it can be a cost-effective helper at hospitals

16/05/2014

3D printing is making it possible for even college students to develop advanced devices that would have previously taken a lot more effort to design and prototype. Thirteen-year-old Sydney Kendall, a girl who lost her arm in a boating accident, got a new custom made, 3D printed arm with individual fingers and a novel control mechanism. Unlike other prostheses, the new device created by engineering students at Washington University in St. Louis, uses an accelerometer attached to her shoulder to detect its movement. Different movements of the shoulder trigger different movements of the fingers of the hand.

Check out the video at: http://buff.ly/RUVCCN

16/05/2014

The DEKA Arm, which has similar size and weight to a natural limb, relies on a combination of control inputs. The main signals come from electromyogram (EMG) electrodes, which sense electrical activity on muscles close to where the prosthesis is attached. A computer on the prosthesis receives the EMG signals and interprets them to make the fingers open or close, or change the grip configuration to let the user pick up a coin.

This advanced bionic arm for amputees has been approved for commercialization

16/05/2014

Bones break and softer tissues get damaged in a variety of ways, but new technologies, especially patient-derived stem cell, can help restore them to a healthy state. Stem cells, while extremely competent at differentiating into target tissues, have to be delivered and kept at the therapy site long enough to do their thing.

Researchers at Rice University developed a special hydrogel that is a liquid at room temperature, but that solidifies when heated to body temperature. The hydrogel can be mixed with stem cells and injected into bone where it toughens and provides a medium in which the cells can differentiate and grow. Before the mixture is injected, another substance is added to the hydrogel to program how fast it will break down once inside the body, allowing new cells to grow and to fill in the space initially supported by the solid hydrogel. The researchers believe the technology would be most applicable in craniofacial orthopedic procedures where minimally invasive therapies are particularly wanted.

Check out the video at: http://buff.ly/1n0SlLS

15/05/2014

Did you know?
EMBC is currently accepting submissions for 1 pg Undergraduate Research for this year's summer conference in Chicago! (Submit by May 26th)

For more information go to http://embc.embs.org/2014

(EMBC'14) Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
"Discovering, Innovating, and Engineering Future Biomedicine"

Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA 26-30 August 2014

15/05/2014

Startup is planning clinical trials for a new photoacoustic technique that produces high-resolution images

15/05/2014

With a goal of improving the quality of life for patients with ascites, engineers at a Swiss medical device company designed an implantable low-flow pump that dramatically changed the standard of treatment (Sidebar: Understanding Ascites). Doing so, however, required protecting their pump’s inner workings from exposure to bodily fluids, and that proved to be a major challenge prior to testing and launch. http://buff.ly/1sNidOF

09/05/2014

PKU-UCLA JRI Symposium

Sessions by UCLA and Peking University faculty on:
Clean Air Policy I Big Data with Applications to Health I Advanced Nano-electronics I Life Sciences I Space Sciences

The Annual Mini-Symposium of the Peking University-UCLA Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering (JRI) provides a forum for JRI faculty members to meet and exchange latest research findings and collaboration ideas.  Alternating between campuses, the event will be hosted at UCLA this year.