University at Buffalo Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to the BME Graduate Student Association (GSA) for winning The Student Organization Collaboration of the Year Pillar of Leadership Award! This award is given to a student organization that orchestrates the most valuable co-sponsored program that has a meaningful contribution to students. This award also considers an organization’s collaboration with other groups.

Congratulations to UB BME Faculty Dr. Ciprian Ionita and Dr. Jonathan Lovell on being acknowledged for most promising startups at the first-ever Buffalo Startup Draft hosted by Series B[uffalo]! In total, 11 Buffalo-based companies were acknowledged and rewarded by former Buffalo Bills legend Eric Wood.

QAS AI, led by Dr. Ionita, gives neurosurgeons something they’ve never had before: real-time AI that can predict, mid-procedure, whether a patient’s brain treatment is on track to succeed.

Pop Biotechnologies is a biotechnology startup led by cofounders Dr. Lovell and Jonathan Smyth and was recently awarded a $2.46 million federal grant to advance the development of a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease.

Read the full story here! https://www.seriesbuffalo.com/articles/11-buffalo-based-startups-drafted-to-series-b-uffalo-team

Congratulations to UB BME PhD students Rob Bing, Zhijian Tan, and Yunqi Xi on winning 3rd Place in the Panasci Technology Entreprenurship Comeption (Panasci TEC) on April 16th! The group received a $5,000 prize sponsored by UB’s Office of Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships for their pitch on “EchoWell Health." EchoWell Health is developing an AI-guided ultrasound acquisition platform that enables patients to perform standardized breast scans at home using a wireless probe. The system provides real-time guidance and quality control to ensure clinicians receive clinically usable data for longitudinal monitoring without requiring in-clinic imaging or trained sonographers.

Panasci TEC was created in 2001 by the UB School of Management and the UB Office of Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships, and is funded with a $1 million endowment from the late Henry A. Panasci Jr. to facilitate and promote the commercialization of UB-generated technologies.

Check out the full story here: https://management.buffalo.edu/about/news.host.html/content/shared/mgt/news/model-rocketry-company-wins-ub-entrepreneurship-competition.detail.html