Come find us at SB3C 2022! Multiple members of the Bellini lab will be presenting at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering & Biotransport Conference (SB3C). #SB3C2022: June 20 – 23, 2022 in Maryland.  Yasmeen Farra was selected as a PhD student paper competition...

Bioengineering Professor Mark Niedre and Assistant Professor Chiara Bellini received a 5-year, $2.7M grant titled “Continuous, Non-Invasive Optical Monitoring of Circulating Tumor Cell-Mediated Metastasis in Awake Mice” from the National Cancer Institute and National...

BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes (PI) and Chiara Bellini were awarded a 5-year, $3.4M NIH grant for “Cardiopulmonary Risk Assessment from Smoke Exposure at the Wildland Urban Interface.” This highly competitive Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES)...

Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, created the tactile sign language robot, TATUM, for people who are deaf and blind to communicate with Professor Chiara Bellini as her advisor. Learn more here.

Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, bioengineering, built a robotic hand that can be used to produce tactile sign language so that people who are blind and deaf can be more independent. Johnson is still in the early stages of developing the robot, working on it as her...

A recent publication from the Bellini lab, “Structural and functional remodeling of the female Apoe−/− mouse aorta due to chronic cigarette smoke exposure” by Farra et al. was selected as the @ajpheartcirc June 2021 #APSselect winner....

Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in...

BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes (PI) and Chiara Bellini were awarded the Faculty Research Team Award. Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2018-2019 academic school...

To help understand and combat these negative effects, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program — part of the Department of Homeland Security — recently awarded $1.5 million in research funding to a pair of...

BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini are studying the health effects of vaping versus traditional combustible cigarettes. While the FDA is primarily concerned with the effects of an addictive chemical such as nicotine on developing teenage...

21 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY18 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing $600K dollars of investment in research. Dr. Bellini was awarded the following:  Quantification of Pulmonary and Cardiovascular...

Chiara Bellini joins the Bioengineering department in Fall 2016 as an Assistant Professor. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Calgary. Her research interests include diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cell-mediated...