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Undergraduate Students Construct Lab Instrument
Undergraduate biomedical engineering students Arjun Vasan and Basilios Sideris demonstrate how to operate the lab instrument they developed over the course of the last year. Designed to allow scientists to better understand how radiation from low-level lasers affects cellular processes, the tool was repurposed from a 1970s era XY plotter.

Effecting Change: UH Engineering Students Aid Needy Hospitals Overseas
Sick people thousands of miles away, in part, have University of Houston engineers to thank for the sterile syringes delivering their medicine and the donated ultrasound machines allowing them to see their babies for the first time. Through a partnership with Project Cure, a longtime nonprofit organization, the students from the UH Biomedical Engineering Society have worked to improve medical care in third world countries by better equipping health care providers overseas with the tools to fight disease.

Study by UH, Texas A&M Professors to Explore Bone Loss in Astronauts
Daniel Martinez, associate professor in the department of health and human performance and the Cullen College’s biomedical engineering program, is working with lead investigator Harry Hogan and co-investigator Susan Bloomfield, both faculty at Texas A&M University, to study measures to counteract bone loss during space missions. All three are named on a roughly $1.1 million grant from NASA’s Human Research Program—nearly $265,000 of the total funding will support Martinez’s efforts.

NFL Grant Supports Gene Therapy Study to Benefit Athletes
UH Cullen College of Engineering researchers Daniel Martinez and David Zimmerman have received an 18-month, $118,693 grant from the National Football League Charities to investigate the use of gene therapy to heal damaged ligaments. The treatment being developed could allow athletes playing in the National Football League a faster return to the field after injury.

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