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Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues are seeking new uses for their synthetic solution. The latest application to show promise involves providing synthetic platelets to treat a genetic condition that prevents blood from clotting, Von Willebrand disease (VWD). The most common of all bleeding disorders, VWD is found in up to 1% of the U.S. population (roughly 3 million people), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Case Western Reserve University’s Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan has been named to a national task force that aims to strengthen partnerships between higher education institutions in the U.S. and India.

A group of Case School of Engineering students recently completed a project that’s helping a local man chase his passion for photography—and their efforts were recognized by NBC Nightly News because of it.

On March 26, the CBS News program 60 Minutes featured groundbreaking work led by Case Western Reserve University researchers Dustin Tyler and A. Bolu Ajiboye—biomedical engineering pioneers who are bringing a renewed sense of touch to amputees and people with paralysis, using neuroprosthetics.

When you wake up each morning, it’s likely you don’t think twice about how you’re going to acquire safe drinking water for the day. Unfortunately, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, that’s not the case for 2 billion people around the world who lack easy access to such a commodity—but Case Western Reserve students are working to be a part of the solution.

Vishnu Ramasamy is well versed in working with 3D printers. He’s even worked on building one that is capable of 3D printing wind turbine blades. Now, he’s taking the next step, designing and building the Arc One, an open-source low-cost, modular machine that 3D prints metal using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM)—a production process used to 3D print or repair metal parts.

Venture capital isn’t just for business majors and two second-year engineering students can prove it.As members of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) team, Evelin Urbancsok and Amos Langsner traveled to Chicago in February to compete in the regional VCIC competition where they took home third place.

After shadowing her father, a mechanical engineer, as part of a class in eighth grade, Melinda Lake-Speers was inspired to sign up for an introductory engineering and design course in high school. “After that, I found out I liked the whole [engineering] process,” she said. “From brainstorming to making CAD drawings to building a final prototype.”

With his face pressed against the glass of the airport window, a young Brian Taylor asked his father who was responsible for building airplanes. When his father told him it was the job of aeronautical engineers, he knew that was the career for him. Now, Taylor, who is a triple alumnus of the Case School of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has assumed the role of assistant professor in the department. 

Case Western Reserve University brought home first place at the Autonomous Snowplow Competition (ASC) in January, but the road to number one had some bumps. With the aim of challenging students in the areas of robotic navigation and guidance, the ASC tasks student teams with constructing robotic snow plows that must clear an artificial test course filled with snow. Ian Adams, Shane Riddle, Clayton Jackson, Austin Mills and Nathan Mengers are the PhD students and Biorobotics Group members that took on the challenge.

Eight researchers affiliated with Case Western Reserve University have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)—the largest class ever from the university—and from any member institution since the academy began the awards in 2018.

When it comes to having a global perspective, Sebastian Saintignon is well versed. His father’s career led Saintignon’s family to live in such varied places as Arizona, Mexico, the Kingdom of Bahrain and California during his childhood, leading him to learn how to be open-minded and comfortable in new environments.

University of Maryland leads team of multiple universities and biotech companies; CWRU to evaluate and optimize synthetic blood products

Inspired by his early experiences working in a medical lab, Franco Kraiselburd founded Asclepii, a startup focused on improving wound care with stem cells. Kraiselburd, a junior biomedical engineering student from Argentina, recently learned more about entrepreneurship at CES as a Veale Snyder Fellow. Next, he’ll travel to Barcelona later this semester to gain more insight.

Sometime next summer, on the second floor of a research building on the Case Western Reserve University campus, scientists hope to record something the world has never witnessed: The moment of impact when an 18-millimeter-diameter projectile hits a wall of water at 9,000 miles per hour. What will occur in that instant and in the subsequent milliseconds—expected to be captured in detail by high-speed cameras—is a tantalizing mix of “knowns, unknowns and what-if’s,” according to Bryan Schmidt, the project’s lead researcher.