Bioengineering

For George Mason senior Meriam Belainass, an internship at a Casablanca, Morocco clinic is hands-on training and a chance to give back to her community.

From bioengineering to big bands, these summer camps teach all ages that George Mason's Grand Challenge Initiative solution of "improving human health" is about more than numbers on a medical chart.

Giorgio Ascoli is the first George Mason recipient of the Javits Award, reserved for a small number of exceptionally highly rated research proposals, awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH.

Quentin Sanders is developing a new generation of hand exoskeletons that may help people regain independence after stroke.

The partnership between George Mason and the Charlotte, N.C., company will accelerate scalable manufacturing of microfluidic devices for bio-innovation, drug discovery, and human-relevant research.

Researchers Shirin Movaghgharnezhad and Parag Chitnis have created a flexible, low-cost wearable patch that could transform medical imaging from a handheld, momentary procedure into continuous, real-time monitoring.

Bioengineering students won first-place in a national design competition for Project S.E.R.V.E. (Student Engineering for Resilience of Veterans). The annual event included engineering students from 11 universities across the country to design custom adaptive devices for injured veterans on Team USA’s para bobsled and para skeleton teams.

At George Mason, Zarin Musarrat Niladree learned that science is ultimately an act of care. This led her to pursue medicine with the goal of becoming the kind of physician who makes patients feel safe.

Postdoctoral researchers Blanca Gutiérrez-Guzmán and J Jesús Hernández-Pérez and assistant professor of bioengineering Holger Dannenberg’s latest publication in Nature Communications asks: If the world suddenly gets bigger, do our mental maps stretch with it, or do they break?

A George Mason University team is taking a promising medical imaging technology closer to real-world use, supported by the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation.