Tech Start-up Wins BioScience Showcase in Detroit
Kalamazoo-based Aursos Inc. is a company established to commercialize a treatment for osteoporosis and other bone disorders based on research by Associate Professor Seth Donahue on black bear parathyroid hormone. Bears hibernate for months without suffering a loss in bone density, and Donahue has linked that natural resistance to the bears' parathyroid hormone.

Previously: Do Bears Hold Key to Treating Osteoporosis? Michigan Tech Scientist Aims to Find Out

Osteoporosis: Rousing a cure from hibernating bears

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Biomedical engineering advances knowledge and develops new devices at the interface of engineering, biology, and medicine. It improves human health through cross-disciplinary activities that integrate the engineering sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice. The integration of biology with engineering is of increasing importance in all engineering disciplines.

Our program emphasizes research and education in tissue regeneration, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and physiological measurements. Our PhD graduates are prepared to undertake postdoctoral research; to succeed in academia, government, and industry; and to grow into positions of leadership.

Graduate students can work with major analytical facilities throughout campus, including electron microscopy, surface analysis instrumentation, nanoindenters, X-ray analysis, and rheometry instrumentation. Collaboration with staff at Portage Health, Marquette General Hospital, and the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation allows our students to explore the rural health-care applications of biomedical engineering.

Faculty and students collaborate with industrial and clinical partners. In addition, some are developing small businesses with the novel technologies developed through their research.