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NIHF Inductee Frances Ligler shares her personal journey of innovation. Learn more about Ligler: http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=546

In this latest episode of MAKE IT COUNT, meet Dr. Gilda Barabino, Dean of the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York...a true pioneer and woman of her time. She is a biomedical engineer, who as an African-American, a woman, has broken stereotypes and achieved the highest honors in her field. Dr. Barabino shares about some of the challenges she's faced to get to where she is today, her thoughts on race, and how she leverages her success in service of others. A must watch!

Neill McNeill's Newsmaker Interview with Dr. Robin Coger, Dean North Carolina A&T State University College of Engineering. Aired in 10pm Newscast 5/15/12
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Sharon Gerecht’s stem cell research has benefitted from innovative thinking across disciplines as diverse as materials chemistry, engineering, and cell biology. Today, she was encouraged to continue breaking new ground as President Ronald J. Daniels
and Provost Robert C. Lieberman presented her with the inaugural President’s Frontier Award in the amount of $250,000. [Read the full article here: http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/01/28/gerecht-presidents-frontier-award]

“Sharon embodies the best traditions of Johns Hopkins research: vision, collaboration and tireless pursuit of discovery.” President Daniels said. “This award reflects our commitment to her work and the advances she is poised to make in the
field of stem cell research.”

Gerecht, an associate professor in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has identified ways to control the fate of
stem cells, which are the most fundamental building blocks of tissues and organs.

She has coaxed them to form complex blood vessels—for the first time growing vessels in a synthetic material— that can feed the generation of new organs like the heart. She has also studied how to stifle their growth to starve cancer cells and inhibit metastasis.

The Frontier Award was made possible by a generous donation from trustee Louis J. Forster, A&S ’82, SAIS ’83, and Kathleen M. Pike, SAIS Bol ’81 (Dipl), A&S ’82, ’83 (MA). It will recognize one person each year for five years with financial support for
their research expenses. The inaugural year brought forward a highly competitive pool of 77 nominees demonstrating excellence in a wide array of academic pursuits across divisions.

In addition to the winner, President Daniels is also recognizing three outstanding finalists with a gift of $50,000 to support their research and advance their academic pursuits. They are:

Scott Bailey, associate professor in the Bloomberg School of Public
Samer Hattar, associate professor in the Krieger School of Arts
Sean Sun, associate professor in the Whiting School of Engineering

The Presidents Frontier Award program launches a series of efforts by university leadership to support faculty as they pursue innovative and important research.

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Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, has earned national recognition for her commitment to making adult stem cell therapy a future reality. Her research interests include applied biomaterials and tissue engineering; cell-biomaterial interaction; materials processing; surface characterization and modification of biomaterials; materials testing; in vivo models; tissue-engineering scaffolds for repair of bone and other related musculoskeletal tissues; and nerve tissue regeneration utilizing stem cells.

Dr. André Churchwell talks about growing up in segregated Nashville, and his experience as a young man in high school and an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University during the earliest years of integration. Dr. Churchwell is a graduate of Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and is currently Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs, and Chief Diversity Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. Churchwell compares his own experience to that of Perry Wallace, whose experience at Vanderbilt and in the SEC is discussed in the book “Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South,” by Andrew Maraniss. Dr. Churchwell’s story, as told in “A View From the Inside,” was presented at the Nashville Public Library on October 2, 2016, as one of a series of events surrounding Vanderbilt’s 2016-17 Commons Reading of “Strong Inside.” The film also explores Nashville’s role in the Civil Rights Movement, and Dr. Churchwell pays tribute to his father, Robert Churchwell, who was the Southeast’s first African American reporter on a major newspaper, The Nashville Banner.

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Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a disease that claims the lives of 195,000 children across the globe annually. Jennifer Maynard, an associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, is on the cusp of a treatment.

She was named 2015 UT Austin Emerging Inventor of the Year by the university's Office of Technology Commercialization.

While working on her Ph.D. research to create an antibody to neutralize anthrax toxins, Maynard realized a similar technique could be used to fight pertussis. She is testing a therapeutic injection to treat the symptoms of pertussis and the painful coughing fits that come with the illness.

"It gives this one-two punch to deal with the toxin," Maynard says. The therapeutic can also help babies who have contracted the disease by easing their symptoms while antibiotics work to eliminate the bacteria that causes the illness.

For more about Maynard and the Office of Technology Commercialization, visit http://utex.as/1T3O0HS.

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley is co-teaching one of the world's largest online classes, "Learning How to Learn", https://www.coursera.org/course/learning.
She know firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. Dr. Oakley flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the U.S. Army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a new found determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.

Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her research focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior, and has been described as “revolutionary” by the Wall Street Journal. Oakley’s books have been praised by many leading researchers and writers, including Harvard’s Steven Pinker and E. O. Wilson, and National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. Her book A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), will be published by Tarcher-Penguin on July 31, 2014.

Prior to her academic career, Oakley rose from private to captain in the U.S. Army, during which time she was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She met her husband, Philip, when she was working at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. Her experiences with well-intentioned altruism were shaped by her work as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea during the early 1980s. Oakley was designated as an NSF New Century Scholar—she is also a recipient of the Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and the National Science Foundation’s Frontiers in Engineering New Faculty Fellow Award. Oakley is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

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What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us — without expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity? Physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia leads a multidisciplinary lab that searches for novel ways to understand, diagnose and treat human disease. Her target: the two-thirds of deaths due to cancer that she says are fully preventable. With remarkable clarity, she breaks down complex nanoparticle science and shares her dream for a radical new cancer test that could save millions of lives.

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Professor Molly Shoichet holds the Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering at the University of Toronto. She has published 500+ papers and given 300+ lectures worldwide. She leads a laboratory of 25 and has graduated 168 scientists. She is actively engaged in translational research and science outreach. Dr. Shoichet won the 2015 L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science award and holds the Order of Ontario. Her BSc is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD is from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering.

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UCSD sensor innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop health monitoring tattoos that hold promise for revolutionizing health care monitoring and making medicine less invasive.

We are moving from an era of advanced prosthetics to one of regenerative engineering. We will soon be able to challenge the difficulties associated with musculoskeletal regeneration. Tissues such as bone, ligament, and cartilage can now be understood from the cellular level to the tissue level, giving us the capability to produce these tissues in clinically relevant forms through tissue engineering techniques. The next ten years will see unprecedented strides in the regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues.

Dr. Cato Laurencin, a University of Connecticut Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, is an internationally noted orthopedic surgeon and one of the preeminent pioneers of the emerging field of regenerative engineering.

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Ten years ago the phrase 'families after cancer' would have been an oxymoron if thought of at all. Today, due to the impressive rise in cancer survivors, this is not only a well-used phrase, but also an issue that needs further exploration. To address this concern we created the Oncofertility Consortium, a national, interdisciplinary initiative and uncommon team, to explore and expand the reproductive options for young cancer patients - men, women, and children. By bridging bench science with physician education and patient empowerment, the Oncofertility Consortium has transformed the dual catastrophe of cancer and infertility into the hopefulness of a life lived and life delivered.

Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD is the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine and Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. As a reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Woodruff has spent the better part of her research career focusing on advancing our knowledge of women's health including fertility and reproductive health. She has brought national awareness to the unmet fertility management needs of young cancer patients and survivors. Dr. Woodruff has established a team of oncologists, fertility specialists, social scientists, educators and policy makers to translate her research to the clinical care of women who will lose their fertility due to cancer treatment. To describe this effort, she coined the term oncofertility, a word that has revolutionized the procedural guideline for young cancer patient care and has provided hope for a fertility future to thousands of cancer survivors. She has edited several books on the topic, and has published more that 170 peer-reviewed journal articles.

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Emery Brown, computational neuroscientist and anesthesiologist, explores one of medicine's big mysteries: What happens to your brain under anesthesia?

Have you ever wondered: "Why sex?" Sex is important for evolution, and humans have been tinkering with natural selection to create better plant and animal specimens for millennia. Dr. Frances Arnold is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer who is taking things a step further, asking the provocative question: "If you could recombine genes from any type of life -- plus you could have as many parents as you wish -- what would you do?" Arnold is pioneering protein engineering methods to harness the power of evolution to create biological systems and organisms with desirable properties not found in nature. She is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, and is the only woman with the honor of being elected to all three National Academies in the US.

Until now, much of the medicines we use to treat dire illnesses have been derived from plants. But that means we are dependent on natural conditions out of our control, such as drought, pollination, floods, and climate, for crucial building blocks. One result is high cost and drug shortages. Stanford Bioengineer Christina Smolke says the time has come to change all that, so her lab is developing new ways to create the drugs we need, including using the yeast from beer to develop new painkillers. “Wouldn’t it be better if we could just make our own medicines?” she asks.  

Christina D. Smolke is an Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Education, and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research program develops new tools that are rapidly advancing our ability to engineer and manipulate living organisms. Her research group has also engineered baker's yeast to make complex plant-based medicines from sugar, changing the ways in which we source and discover medicines. Smo,lke has been honored with numerous awards, including Nature’s 10, AIMBE fellow, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, WTN Award in Biotechnology, and TR35 Award. Christina has co-founded two companies based on technologies developed in her laboratory.

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Dr. Jessica Winter is a nanotechnology cancer researcher who one day found herself to be a patient. Dr. Winter discusses her research in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering departments at the Ohio State University, her initial diagnosis, what it's like to be on the other side of the treatment table, and her treatment at the Wexner Medical Center's James Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Winter also discusses roadblocks in translating research from the bench to the bedside and how her illness has shaped her outlook on the future of cancer research.

Professor Winter’s primary research interest is the exploration of the relationship between nanoparticles and biological elements. Her work is divided into three areas:

Development of nanoscale neural prosthetic devices
Patterned chemical and physical cues for improved neural adhesion and synapse formation
Creation of oriented, nanopatterned surfaces using biological elements
She is an established leader in nanobiotechnology through the development of magnetic quantum dots for cell and molecular separations.

Winter is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and also Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. Her degrees include a B.S., Northwestern University, a M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2001 and a Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2004.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Dr. LaPlaca talks about how to transform the way we treat concussions. Instead of the determinations we use today, she envisions a system where we have personalized concussion scores to better treat patients.

Michelle C. LaPlaca, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering (Ph.D., 1996) and completed postdoctoral training in Neurosurgery, both at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. LaPlaca’s research interests surround translational research in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. The goals are to better understand acute injury mechanisms and mechanotransduction, identify novel TBI biomarkers, and develop multimodal concussion assessment tools. She has won numerous awards for her research and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Brain Injury Association of Georgia.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Trina Arinzeh, Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Department of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT, talks about the use of tissue engineering or regenerative medicine strategies to regrow damaged or diseased tissues, mainly in the areas of orthopaedics and neural applications. An important component of these strategies is the design of the scaffold which helps support cells to rebuild tissue. The scaffolds can be designed to have appropriate cues, at a small scale, that can drive stem cells to produce the tissue of interest.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Dr. Natalia Trayanova shares her journey through her groundbreaking computational cardiology research and her career as a biomedical engineer.

Dr. Natalia Trayanova is the Murray B. Sachs Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins and directs the Computational Cardiology Laboratory. She is at the forefront of cardiac research, working to meld computers and the heart together in order to make cardiac care more personalized and effective than it ever has been before. Her research is supported by grants from the NIH, NSF, and the American Heart Foundation, and the ideas that she is pursuing may change medicine as we know it.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Surgeon and educator Carla Pugh shows how doctors are using sophisticated models of the human body -- plus performance data and feedback -- to learn how to give better exams to their patients.

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Filmed at TEDYouth in 2015.