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Washington University in St. Louis named Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence Hong Chen, Jan Kubanek named director and co-director of the new center, respectively. 12.19.2025
Chen named finalist for Sony Women in Technology Award Hong Chen is a renowned expert in focused ultrasound. 11.20.2025
Five McKelvey Engineering graduate students selected for Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowships Program recognizes second-year doctoral students with exceptional academic and research accomplishments. 11.18.2025
McKelvey Engineering faculty, students receive Provost’s Research Excellence Award Honor recognizes exemplary researchers and scholars across the university. 11.13.2025
Five researchers from McKelvey Engineering among the world’s most cited The faculty rank in the top 1% by citations for their field in the past decade. 11.13.2025
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Armor Medical wins MedTech Innovator Grand Prize Startup developing wearable sensors for early detection of postpartum hemorrhage. 10.21.2025
![Rohit V. Pappu, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Min Kyung Shinn, a former postdoctoral researcher in his lab, investigated some of the physical features of nuclear speckles that were inconsistent with the type of uniform droplets one expected to see if they formed via liquid-liquid phase separation. Their microscopy images revealed that the speckle-associated proteins were distinct in the types of structures they formed. [Credit: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4, 605–612 (2003).]](https://engineering.washu.edu/news/images/rohit-image.jpg)
