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Lab News

• Spencer selected as a 2020-2021 James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow

  Congrats to Spencer for being selected as a Swartz Fellow. This initiative fast-tracks the careers of Carnegie Mellon University’s first year graduate students who are passionate about entrepreneurship in the technology arena. The program’s core is a mentored summer internship with a top-tier VC-backed startup within the high-tech, high-growth environment of California’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Congrats, Spencer!

• Bettinger Group welcomes new students for Fall 2020

  The Bettinger Group welcomes the following new students for this year (in alphabetical order): Emily Augustine (MSE), Lily Gido (ChemE), Emma Graham (ChemE), Spencer Matonis (MSE), Mahathy Rajagopalan (BME), Audrey Schreiner (BME), Jiwoo Song (MSE). Welcome to all!

• Two new articles published in MRS Bulletin

  Prof Bettinger co-authors two articles in the MRS Bulletin. The first article is a progress report on transient electronics. The second article summarizes the content of a recent workshop on neural interfaces sponsored by the MRS and the Kavli Foundation.

• Ancure (Bettinger Group spin-out) receives SBIR grant from NIH

  Ancure is a Bettinger Group spin-out that is translating new materials for applications in treating intracranial aneurysms. Ancure recently received a SBIR Phase II grant to fund in vivo experiments with partners at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

• Chris Bettinger elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

  Prof Bettinger was recently elected to the 2020 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows. According to the AIMBE, “College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to ‘engineering and medicine research, practice, or education’ and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering…”