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Biomedical Engineering News - May 2023

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Four Engineering Faculty Earn UA Awards of Distinction

Kelly Simmons-Potter, Wolfgang Fink, Alex Craig and Judith Su have made local, national and global impacts.
Nima Toosizadeh

NSF CAREER Awardee Develops a 1-Minute Frailty Testing Platform

A University of Arizona professor is developing a quick and accurate way to screen patients for frailty, and better inform physicians’ care decisions. In tandem, he’s helping students at the crossroads of and engineering and medicine choose their...
Judith Su in her lab with FLOWER. The lab is dark and lit with blue and purple lighting.

The Nose Knows: CAREER Awardee Developing Bioinspired Optical Sniffer Sensor

With a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation, a biomedical engineering and optical sciences researcher is creating a device that can sniff out diseases, dangerous chemicals and other substances with the sensitivity of a bloodhound.
Wolfgang Fink poses with a planetary rover

From Microelectronics to Mars

The Edward & Maria Keonjian Endowed Chair Supports Discoveries Big and Small.