Professor Terri Camesano, recently received a First Place Award at the Third International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) for her ongoing research into the use of antimicrobial peptides to prevent catheter-related infections. Camesano was honored at the Innovation Academy during ICPIC in Geneva, Switzerland, for her presentation, “Development of Antimicrobial Peptides for Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Prevention.”

Prof. Greg Fischer, Mechanical Engineering, and his team have developed a robotic surgery tool that can perform minimally invasive procedures inside of an MRI. They created this robot using plastic parts and ceramic piezoelectric motors that boasts a low-noise control system that doesn’t cause electrical interference. The robotic tool is now being tested on human patients undergoing prostate biopsies at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital where the radiologists believe it will provide unprecedented accuracy. Read more about this amazing new research at IEEE Sprectrum.

“Monitoring the Progression of Spontaneous Articular Cartilage Healing with Infrared Spectroscopy”

Full citation: O’Brien MP, Penmatsa M, Palukuru U, West P, Yang X, Bostrom MP, Freeman T, Pleshko N. Monitoring the progression of spontaneous articular cartilage healing with infrared spectroscopy. Cartilage. 2015;6:174-184

To better understand the progression of cartilage healing, this work used Fourier transform infrared imaging spectroscopy (FT-IRIS) to analyze harvested repair tissue. The use of an infrared fiber-optic probe (IFOP) has the potential for translation to a clinical setting to provide beneficial information to surgeons trying to determine the quality of damaged cartilage in patients with joint injuries. In this study, we determined the feasibility of IFOP assessment of cartilage repair tissue and support further development of the IFOP technique for clinical applications.