Eric Comeau is the recipient of an American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will support Eric's project titled "Ultrasound standing wave field technologies for cell patterning and microvessel network formation in vitro and in situ". Through this project, Eric will advance new ultrasound technologies for tissue engineering applications. Eric is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is co-mentored by Professor Diane Dalecki (BME) and Professor Denise C. Hocking (Pharmacology and Physiology; BME). Eric is also a student member of the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound (RCBU).

BME Professor Mark Buckley has received support from the University of Rochester's Valerie and Frank Furth Fund for his proposal The Role of Mechanics in Disease and Disease Therapies.

The Furth Fund promotes natural and biological science research by funding young scientists in Arts, Sciences, & Engineering or the Medical Center. Each year, one award in the amount of $10,000 is granted to support post-doctoral and graduate students and/or to fund equipment purchases.