biomedical engineering

Researchers in the College have worked with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University to create an unpowered exoskeleton that adds an extra spring to each step a person takes and modifies the structure of their ankles.

Oct 6, 2015

Adding a little spring to your step

Researchers in the College have worked with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University to create an unpowered exoskeleton that adds an extra spring to each step a person takes and modifies the structure of their ankles.

Oct 6, 2015

Department of Biomedical Engineering establishes joint undergraduate degree

With the success and popularity at the graduate level, the Joint NC State/UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering has established a joint undergraduate degree program.

DR. ZHEN GU, One of MIT Technology Review's INNOVATORS UNDER 35

Oct 1, 2015

Biomedical engineer tapped for MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

ZHEN GU, an assistant professor in the Joint NC State/UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” for his work on developing novel drug-delivery systems for treating cancer and diabetes.

Sep 28, 2015

Researchers disguise drugs as platelets to target cancer

Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient’s own platelets, allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumors and the circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize.

Sep 28, 2015

New Tech Automatically ‘Tunes’ Powered Prosthetics While Walking

Biomedical engineering researchers at NC State University and the UNC-Chapel Hill have now developed software that allows powered prosthetics to tune themselves automatically, making the devices more functionally useful and lowering the costs associated with powered prosthetic use.

Zhen Gu in his lab on NC State University's Centennial Campus.

Aug 31, 2015

Gu Named a Top Innovator Under 35

Biomedical engineer Zhen Gu has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35.

Engineering students, from left, Josh Giron, Morgan Kaman, Mattia Muller and Kyle Vey created a discreet way to help women remember to take their birth control pill.

Aug 31, 2015

Student team creates product to improve efficacy of birth control pills

A team of engineering students at North Carolina State University tackled the problem of medication noncompliance with birth control pills with a project called PurpleSticker.

Aug 28, 2015

Researchers use DNA ‘clews’ to shuttle CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into cells

Researchers from NC State University and the UNC-Chapel Hill have for the first time created and used a nanoscale vehicle made of DNA to deliver a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into cells in both cell culture and an animal model.

Aug 13, 2015

Elastic drug delivery technology releases drugs when stretched

Researchers from NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a drug delivery technology that consists of an elastic patch that can be applied to the skin and will release drugs whenever the patch is stretched.