Month: February 2023

Dr. Chelsea Magin, BME alum and Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, CU Denver, on being awarded the 2023 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award! The CMBE Rising Star Award recognizes a BMES-CMBE SIG member who is at their early independent career stage and has made an outstanding impact on the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Arinola Lampejo on winning the UF Health Cancer Center 2023 Research Day Poster Award in the Graduate & Predoctoral Student Category for her poster titled, “Incorporation of Tumor Spheroids into an ex-vivo Tissue Culture Model to Investigate Cancer Cell-Microvascular Interactions.” A challenge in cancer research is the lack of biomimetic models […]

By Cody Hawley The University of Florida has been awarded $3.6 million of a $23.5 million multicenter grant for a four-year data-generation project that is unprecedented in its scope, aimed at building an infrastructure for artificial intelligence in critical care and advancing artificial intelligence in ways that improve patients’ ability to recover from life-threatening illnesses. […]

Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Allen, associate professor, and Kevin Otto, professor and senior associate chair, on receiving the 2022-2023 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of their credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring our students. Kyle Allen “One of Dr. […]

Drs. Parisa Rashidi & Azra Bihorac’s research on using AI in patient care was featured on NBC Nightly News Featured on NBC Nightly News Doctors at the University of Florida Health Center are using artificial intelligence to help monitor their patients. The findings will help them develop algorithms that will soon provide real-time health care […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class, breaking previous records for the number of faculty awarded in a single year. The honor, which includes alumni such […]