When global pharmaceutical company Allergan acquired Anterios, it also acquired intellectual property developed at UMass Lowell.

Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Scott Stapleton and research collaborators are developing tissue-engineered heart valves that can be implanted in a less invasive procedure that can cut the cost of the operation and the patient’s hospital recovery time, especially for the young and elderly.

Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Tina Dardeno ’14, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, is developing a non-contact, non-invasive method for monitoring the insertion and seating of cementless femoral implants in real-time.

Asst. Prof. Joyita Dutta, who leads the Biomedical Imaging and Data Sciences Laboratory at UMass Lowell, is working to develop novel image- and data-processing tools that merge traditional signal processing with the emerging field of data science.

A team of researchers led by electrical and computer engineering Assoc. Prof. Hengyong Yu is developing a new ultralow-dose CT screening method to improve the image quality and resolution of CT scans while reducing the radiation dose.

The Francis College of Engineering has launched a biomedical engineering (BME) undergraduate bachelor’s degree program this fall, the first offered by a public university in the Commonwealth.

Chemical engineering Asst. Prof. Prakash Rai was awarded a grant by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NCI/NIH) totaling more than $725,000 to study a combined, nanotechnology-based diagnostic/therapeutic strategy for the targeted treatment of breast cancer.