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We don’t know: How heart valve disease starts

In a conversation with Rice Magazine's David Levin,

Maris Wicks
Using cartoons to communicate engineering

“I’m not a scientist and I’m not an engineer. Science is what I love and comics is how I think.”

From left, Rice researchers Linlin Zhang, Gang Bao and Sheng Tong. Image by Jeff Fitlow
NIH grant funds research in immune checkpoint therapy

Immune checkpoints are a crucial part of the body’s immune system that regulate a multitude of cellular responses to protect against disease and prevent autoimmunity.

Above: M.D./Ph.D. student Eric Molina, undergraduate Maria Salazar, and Anthony Melchiorri fabricate and characterize biomaterials. The CECT also offers outreach programs for high school students and teachers. Photos by Jeff Fitlow
Advancing center-scale initiatives in research and education

Advances in regenerative medicine are allowing for the production of living three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs that closely mirror the properties of real, soft tissue and bone for the repair

Portrait of Will Clifton
Clifton leads MBE program in Global Medical Innovation

Will Clifton is a life-science entrepreneur and bioengineer with a background in medical device and innovation education.

From left: Omid Veiseh and Jordan Miller.
Rice University bioengineers combine forces to fight Type-1 diabetes

New research between Rice University bioengineers Omid Veiseh and

Portrait of Junghae Suh
Suh selected for Biotechnology Progress Award

Rice University bioengineer Junghae Suh has been selected for the 2018

Gang Bao, left, in his laboratory
Eminent bioengineer named associate dean for research and innovation

Gang Bao, the Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering, professor of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering,

Rice University Professor Antonios Mikos (center) and students at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Advances in Tissue Engineering short course
Mikos receives Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal

Rice University bioengineer honored for biomaterials research

Antonios G.

Undergraduate bioengineering and global health students work to combine words and pictures to explain technical messages across audiences.
Putting the A in STEM

The mixing of arts and science is not as rare as you might think. Leonardo da Vinci combined both to create masterpieces.

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