Engineering Senior Design Day happens every year in every engineering school in the nation, and FAMU-FSU College of engineering is no exception. It is an event filled with college students in suits scurrying through the school— mostly dark, serious suits with the flair of youth, and maybe colorful sneakers or a tie. Some students carry projects in their hands; other prototypes are so large it takes an entire team to cart them into the building.

The National Institutes of Health is funding a $1.8 million project led by a researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering that will use artificially grown, simplified mini-organs to create medicine that targets brain cells damaged by stroke.

The research team will use stem cells to create miniature organs that resemble human brains. From those so-called brain organoids, they will harvest particles that are naturally released by cells and engineer them to act as medicine where it’s needed in the brain of a patient.
 

Jamel Ali, assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was awarded one of two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants at the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2021 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium.

Aspiring biomedical engineer turns personal loss into a deep desire to help heal the sick and injured