Dr. Morten the CB Lab receives the 2022 Honor’s College Distinguished Research and Teaching Faculty Award for our work with Clinicians and Honor’s Students. Congratulations to the Lab!

Dr. Morten and Sam Stephens work with UAMS NWA and former Senior Design students to develop a device to help children practice for safer and more effective lung capacity testing. Project has received more than $100k in NSF and other funding.

In a letter from the AHA, Dr. Jensen was recognized for the scientific and professional accomplishments, volunteer leadership and service to the AHA.

Dr. Morten and Sam Stephens work with Animal Science Researchers and Vetenarians to develop a surgical spoon that is in clinical testing to make a common veterinary procedure safer and more effective.

Dr. Morten presents some of the work from the CB Lab to the Arkansas Research Alliance. The full presentation including Questions and Answes can be viewed here.

Dr. Morten and Sam Stephens use experience in a clear example of how the intersection of medicine and engineering can quickly come together and help clinicians save lives!

Dr. Hanna is recognized for the extraordinary commitment and accomplishments through her Service Learning course — Clinical Observations and Needs Finding.

NIH grant awarded to the CB Lab for improving methods of complex heart surgery!

Students from Dumas and Gould AR toured UAMS and the U of A to learn how STEM is building the future; Dr. Hanna and Megan championed the heart laboratory – always a student favorite!

Honors College Fellow, Fayetteville native, and CB Lab member Gabi Gies shared with the College of Engineering her interest in medical technology.

CB Lab participates in testing new imaging method of complex blood flow for the first time in human pediatric patients.

The NorthWest Arkansas Chapter of the American Heart Association (AHA) made Dr. Morten Jensen a November month Heart Hero!

Eighteen girls from Dumas and Gould made the trip to the University of Arkansas over the summer for a hands-on look at the world of biomedicine, including the fields of biological science, biomedical engineering, exercise science and more.

A group of biomedical engineering students recently traveled to Minnesota to train under industry leaders who helped them develop solutions to real-world problems associated with treating stroke, chronic pain and chronic hypertension.

The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s most prestigious award for undergraduate students who plan doctoral studies and research careers in the fields of science, mathematics or engineering!

Dr. Jensen and doctoral student Megan Laughlin starts company with Chemical Engineering professor Dr. Jamie Hestekin to help train clinicians and test medical equipment. Story published on talkbusiness.net, UARK Newswire, Research Frontiers, and the Democrat-Gazette.

Dr. Jensen receives a grant from the American Heart Association to fund a project titled “Optimizing Treatment of Coronary Bifurcation Lesions”. This is a collaboration with Barry Uretsky, the director of interventional cardiology at UAMS, and Lucas Timmins from the University of Utah Department of Bioengineering.

Dr. Hanna Jensen meets with clinicians to organize new course that provides eye-opening experiences for students to find projects that they can potentially carry over to BMEG Senior Design.

Paolo, a research assistant in the CB Lab (who also designed our logo), was recently recognized by the Arkansas Alumni Association as a “Razorback Classic,” an honor that celebrates academic excellence, demonstrated leadership, and campus or community involvement. He offers tips on how to succeed as an undergraduate engineering student at the U of A:

Henson discusses his current research projects in the Cardiovascular Biomechanics lab with Drs. Hanna and Morten Jensen, and also in the Center for Advanced Surface Engineering with Dr. Jin-Woo Kim.

Biomedical Engineering doctoral student Megan Laughlin is working to develop a prosthetic vein valve that would restore function and normal blood flow to the deep veins.

Dr. Morten Jensen was honored along with 10 other College of Engineering faculty members for inventions.  In participation with professor Jamie Hestekin of Chemical Engineering and two graduate students, Megan Laughlin and Anne Meier, the team invented new ways of creating human mimicking blood vessels inside synthetic gelatin.

Dr. Kevin Haney is the Medical Director of Ozark Regional Vein Center specializing in the latest treatment modalities for venous disease, including varicose and spider veins. He provides a “Gold Standard of Vein Care,” which includes being a member of the American Board of Phlebology (specialist in treating vein disease). This cutting edge facility offers the state-of-the-art minimally invasive technologies in the treatment of varicose and spider veins in Rogers, Arkansas.

It wasn’t quite Valentine’s Day, but on Saturday, dozens of female students from across Northwest Arkansas gathered to hold hearts (not their own!) in their hands. Leading “The Heart of Biomedical Engineering” workshop at the University of Arkansas was Hanna Jensen, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering. For Jensen, the workshop was a chance to fight the notion that careers in medicine, engineering and other sciences aren’t meant for girls.

The University of Arkansas is supporting faculty collaborative research with up to $1 million per year in the grant awards. Dr. Hanna Jensen joins a team led by Dr. Bob Beitle Jr., professor of Chemical Engineering also including Dr. Brinck Kerr III, professor of political science and Jeff Amerine, adjunct instructor of management and founder of Start Up Junkie Consulting. The research project aims to develop and assess new ways of treating a rare disease and determine if a non-profit or start up business can bring the treatment to market.

Publication in the scientific journal PLOS ONE with NCTR and the University of Kentucky

Interview with undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student Aksel Terkelsen from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.  Aksel is working with the CB Lab for 12 months in 2017 as part of his engineering education from Denmark.

An interdepartmental effort between Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering took the second-place title with their Senior Design of an artificial mitral valve chamber. Students Rachel Russell, Katherine Gilbert, Daniela Arauz, Karam Sra, and Research Engineer Sam Stephens worked with Dr. Morten Jensen, associate professor of biomedical engineering, to create a biomechanically correct model of the mitral valve chamber, complete with the ability to withstand the force of two regular water bottles’ worth of pressure every time the heart beats, or 100,000 times per day!

The Outstanding Achievement in Teaching for the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Excellence in Research Dissemination for the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas awards were received by Dr. Morten Jensen.