The following research will be presented during the 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, held October 8th - 12th in San Diego, CA: “Live-cell profiling of cancer specific Src kinase activity using exogenous peptide probes” will be presented by Terry Chen on Saturday, October 11th, 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM.

Congratulations to Biomedical Engineering PhD students Liz Medvedeva and Ted Rock on passing their oral qualifier exam with honors. Well done!

Congratulations to Colin Skeen! His first-author paper entitled “Standardized droplet preamplification method for downstream circulating cell-free DNA analysis” was accepted for publication in BioTechniques. This paper reports the development of a standardized ddPCR protocol for robust pre-PCR enrichment of liquid biopsy samples.

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest PhD students. Liz Medvedeva and Ted Rock join us after completing a series of rotations through the BME program.

A new collaborative project led by Prof. Pratt and Prof. Khalil is one of five multidisciplinary proposals selected to receive a Dean’s Catalyst Award from the BU College of Engineering. These two-year awards are designed to promote innovative, cross-disciplinary research with strong potential to secure future external funding.