Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in collaboration with UF Diabetes Center of Excellence (http://diabetes.ufl.edu/) investigator Michael Clare-Salzler, MD, this 5-year, $1.55M grant (1R01DK091658-01A1) will fund the investigation of biodegradable microparticle formulations delivering immuno-modulatory… Read More

The Medical Physics and BME students got together to Relay for Life in the fight against Cancer on the weekend of April 14th and 15th. Led by team captain, Matt Hoerner, more than 20 students raised money for the American… Read More

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering regrets the passing of Dr. William G. “Bill” Luttge, the founding executive director of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida. In addition to his many contributions to the… Read More

In collaboration with Dr. Stephen Grobmyer, MD of the department of Surgery at the College of Medicine and Dr. Huikai Xie, PhD of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in this project Dr. Huabei Jiang and his students will… Read More

The BME Ballers season came to an end in the Quarterfinals of the playoffs, dropping a hard fought game 0-5 to the Kameltonians. The Ballers finish the 2012 outdoor season with a final record of 2-4-0. Two goals in the… Read More

Biomedical Engineering graduate students Ray Kozikowski and Jennifer Lee (both pictured), together with Mechanical Engineering student Sara Smith have won the prestigious prize from the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology. The $10,000 prize will allow them to… Read More

After dropping two in a row, 0-3 to MBAs Kick It and 0-5 to Bicuspid Futbol, over the last two weeks, BME came back to finish the regular season with a 4-0 win over Minesweepers. Our second win brings the… Read More

Biomedical Engineering students can be the perfect life savers. Not only do they understand biology and human physiology, they also understand technologies like an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). On February 11, 2012, nineteen BME students took on the challenge to… Read More

This recently established seminar series honors the J. Crayton Pruitt Family, and especially J. Crayton Pruitt, Sr., for their exceptional support for the Department. As Dr. Pruitt was particularly interested in nurturing young scholars we have established this lecture series… Read More

After dropping the season opener, the BME soccer team reorganized and recovered. Building on their second half improvements from the first game, the Ballers notched their first win of the season to bring their record to 1-1-0. With a strong… Read More