Month: October 2021

By Allison Logan A team of researchers at the University of Florida will explore ways to increase trustworthiness and interpretability of artificial machine learning in healthcare under a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team will also investigate ways to use AI to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases earlier. The project will provide […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that twenty-five BME undergraduate students each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Molares, Oriana Hilo, Sireen S Chan, Vanessa Richards, Tisana Joanna Sweeting, Gianna L Kotlarz, Parker Louis Rashid, Adeeb De La Espriella, Juan Esteban Zhang Keer […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ALPCO’s Summer 2021 Diabetes Research Travel Grant has been awarded to Mollie Huber, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Biomedical Sciences program at the University of Florida. Mollie’s novel research utilizes live human and mouse pancreatic tissue slices to study the genuine islet microenvironment in autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes. Her […]

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Taylor, assistant professor, who was accepted to the Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) workshop. The competitive TIGRR workshop provides one-on-one mentorship to researchers facing their first major research grant.  The annual four-day workshop includes structured sessions on hypothesis development, study design, federal funding mechanisms, and peer review, with a […]