{"id":146718,"date":"2026-09-16T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=146718"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:43:57","slug":"bu-ignition-award-winners-innovations-could-reduce-knee-pain-extend-lives-of-cancer-patients-and-propel-underwater-robot","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2026\/bu-ignition-award-winners-innovations-could-reduce-knee-pain-extend-lives-of-cancer-patients-and-propel-underwater-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Ignition Award Winners\u2019 Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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BU biomedical engineer Carolyn Marar (center) won an Ignition Award for her work with researchers Daniel Taub (left) and Venetia Zachariou (right) on a drug-free technology to tackle knee pain.<\/em> Photo by Cydney Scott.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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Annual entrepreneurship awards given to research projects ready to make the leap from the lab to real-world impact<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
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Read the BU Brink article<\/a> by Andrew Thurston to learn more about the BU Ignition awards and the role of BU Chobanian & Avedisian faculty including Venetia Zachariou<\/a>, PhD, Daniel Taub<\/a>, PhD, Steven C. Borkan<\/a>, MD, Laurence H. Beck<\/a>, MD, PhD, and Daniel Cifuentes<\/a>, PhD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the BU Brink article by Andrew Thurston to learn more about the BU Ignition awards and the role of BU Chobanian & Avedisian faculty including Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Daniel Taub, PhD, Steven C. Borkan, MD, Laurence H. Beck, MD, PhD, and Daniel Cifuentes, PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":146719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Awards & Honors","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[356,465,529,94],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[378,539,413,385],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/146718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/146718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/146718\/revisions\/146720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=146718"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=146718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}