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Forty years ago, the Department of Biomedical Engineering began in the basement of Cudworth Hall, located on the southeast corner of 19th Street South and University Boulevard, with a faculty of four professors and a staff technician.
Human cells shed exosomes. These tiny extracellular, membrane-bound vesicles can carry cargo for cell-to-cell communication, ferrying diverse loads of proteins, lipids or nucleic acids.
The 2019-20 school year is off to a strong start in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, which ushered in students, faculty and staff with a celebration that included introductions to department leadership and to resources that are available for research. On Wednesday afternoon, August 28, the department—which is a joint department in the UAB Schools of Engineering and Medicine—hosted a 2019 welcome mixer.
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Sepsis is a deadly infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually and costs billions of dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. What if a group of students could design a program to reduce both the mortality rate and high cost of treating this life-threatening condition?