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BY FOSTERING early-stage collaborations between University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering researchers and practicing physicians, a new initiative will enable researchers to deliver their advances more quickly to the patients who need them.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is one of only nine departments to receive a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partnership Award in Biomedical Engineering. Through its award, the Coulter Foundation will form a working partnership with the department to promote, develop and support translational research via a number of initiatives, including funding promising research projects, increasing and supporting effective collaborations between biomedical engineers and clinicians, and developing and supporting sustainable methods for moving promising technologies into clinical application.
The Coulter Translational Partnership in Biomedical Engineering fosters early-stage collaborations between University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering researchers and practicing physicians.
Current Translational Research Projects Funded
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David Beebe, BME, and Carol Diamond, Pediatrics, will collaborate on the project “Non-electric, Disposable Drug Delivery Device for Hemophilia,” $100K.
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Walter Block, BME, and Amish Raval, Radiology, will collaborate on the project “MRI-guided Endomyocardial Injection Catheter,” $100,000.
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Kristyn Masters, BME; Roham Moftakhar, Neurosurgery; and Wendy Crone, BME and Engineering Physics, will collaborate on the project “Enhanced Delivery of Liquid Embolic Agents for Aneurysm Occlusion,” $79,000.
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Kristyn Masters, BME, and Takushi Kohmoto, Cardiothoracic Surgery, will collaborate on the project “Bioactive Polyurethane-Based Materials for Vascular Applications,” $129,000.
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William Murphy, BME, and Amish Raval, Interventional Cardiology, will collaborate on the project “Controlled Protein Delivery Technology for Treatment of Ischemic Disease,”$110,000.
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Brenda Ogle, BME; Luis Fernandez, Transplantation Surgery; Kevin Elicieri, LOCI; and Matthew Hanson, Islet Cell Core facility, will collaborate on the project “M ultichannel Multiphoton Flow Cytometry for the Characterization of Pancreatic Islets,” $100,000.
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Ray Vanderby, BME and Orthopedics & Rehabilitation; Lee Kaplan, BME and Orthopedics & Rehabilitation; and Patricia J. Keely, BME and Pharmacology, will collaborate on the project “Acoustoelastic Analysis of Ultrasound Waves to Determine In Vivo Tissue Strains and Material Properties: Technology Transfer to Medical Imaging Systems,” $99,000.
Current Translational Research Projects Funded in 2006
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Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Kristyn Masters, BME, and neurological surgery postdoctoral trainee Roham Moftakhar, “Bioactive Spherical Aneurism Occlusion Device.”
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Biomedical Engineering Professor Ray Vanderby (also of mechanical engineering, engineering physics and orthopedics and rehabilitation) and Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Assistant Professor Lee Kaplan, “Acoustoelastic Analysis of Ultrasound Waves to Determine In Vivo Tissue Strains and Material Properties.”
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Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Walter Block and Radiology Assistant Professor Rick Kijowski, “Rapid 3D MRI Cartilage Assessment,”
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Biomedical Engineering Professor William Murphy and Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Assistant Professor Ben Graf, “Biologically Active Coatings on Bioresorbable Orthopedic Implants.”