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UF BME Faculty Member Huabei Jiang: ‘Optical biopsy’ for breast cancer increasingly accurate

Most biopsies following mammograms reveal benign abnormalities, not cancer. But women may not have to endure the medical costs, stress and potential complications that accompany such invasive biopsies forever. A University of Florida biomedical engineering researcher is making progress on an “optical biopsy” that has the potential to determine whether growths are cancerous without ever puncturing the skin.

BME is on the move

We are excited to announce that we have started to move into the new Biomedical Sciences Building.  Our department administration has moved, and you can now find us on the ground floor towards the back of the building (JG-56).  We also have changed our phone numbers:

  • Main phone number: 352-273-9222
  • Fax line: 352-273-9221

Most of the lab and faculty phone numbers are changing as well, and you can find the updates on the faculty and lab pages.

The labs and faculty will be moving over the next several weeks.

Faculty openings

The BME Department is looking for seven new faculty in the next several years to fuel the growth of our undergraduate program and the expansion of our collaborative efforts with the Health Sciences.   Three positions are open for applications now.  Link here for more information

 

BME publishes new affiliate faculty policy

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering has approved and published a new policy for affilate faculty members. 

When Phones Can't Have Buttons Large Enough

Stephen Myers, a Ph. D student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has invented a nifty RFID based system to help the elderly and people with bad hands dial the telephone without having to punch any keys. By swiping flashcards with pictures of contacts at the RFID receiver, the system downloads the proper phone number and dials it automatically. Congratulations on this wonderful achievement!

BME student Chelsea Magin recieves travel support

The Office of Research is providing student Chelsea Magin $300 in support for her to attend the Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference held in Long Beach, California on October 15-17, 2009. Congratulations on this unique opportunity!

BME student Il Park recieves travel support

The Office of Research is providing student Il Park $300 in support for him to attend the Society for Neuroscience 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL on October 17-21, 2009. Congratulations on this unique opportunity!

Babak Mahmoudi finalist in IEEE EMBS student competition

BME Ph.D. student Babak Mahmoudi was a finalist at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Society's student paper competition with his paper entitled "An Actor-Critic Architecture and Simulator for Goal-Directed Brain-Machine Interfaces".  The competition took place at the EMBS annual meeting in Minneapolis in September 2009.  Babak is doing his research in Justin Sanchez' laboratory.  Please join us in congratulating Babak.

 

 

Website construction

Pardon our dust.  We are currently working on our new website.  Most of the infomation is here, but there are a few things still missing.  The faculty directory is not yet complete, so if you see your name missing, we apologize.

Michelle Griffin leaves the department

Michelle Griffin has left the department to pursue the career she been training for.  Michelle is getting ready to finish her Master in Public Health degree.  She has started her very prestigious intership at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.  We have enjoyed working with Michelle over the past 2 years, and we will miss her.  Good Luck Michelle!! 

While we are working on hiring a new person, Danielle Wise will take over Michelle's functions.