Congratulations to Drs. Mingzhou Ding (PI), Distinguished Professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and Andreas Keil (PI), professor, department of psychology, for their collaborative NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grant titled, Acquisition, extinction, and recall of… Read More
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UF BME alum, Dr. Jamal Lewis, joins the department as a faculty member
We are thrilled to welcome alum Dr. Jamal Lewis to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Lewis will join the department as an associate professor in Summer 2022. Lewis completed his B.S. in chemical engineering from Florida… Read More
HWCOE and UF BME moves up in rankings of best undergraduate programs
The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering rose to No. 18 from 19th for best undergraduate engineering programs among public universities, and eight of its 11 engineering specialties were listed among the Top 20 in the 2022 U.S. News & World… Read More
Ph.D. student selected for 2021 NextProf Pathfinder Workshop
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Charlie Tran, who has been selected to participate in the 2021 NextProf PathFinder Workshop: Preparing the Next Generation of Scientific and Technological Leaders at the University of Michigan on October 17-19, 2021. The NextProf Pathfinder is a two-day… Read More
Bolch and Gunduz selected to receive UF Term Professorships
Congratulations to the following UF BME faculty on being selected to receive a three-year University of Florida Term Professorship. Wesley Bolch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor & UF Term Professor Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor & UF Term… Read More
Undergraduate student receives HWCOE scholarship
Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting, undergraduate student in the SMILE lab, who received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering John & Mittie Collins Engineering Scholarship. Gianna’s current research topic focuses on using genomic data to discover genetic variants that can be… Read More
BME Ph.D. candidate awarded NIH F31 NRSA Fellowship
Magdalena Samojlik, Ph.D. candidate in the Stabler lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Engineering a dynamic three-dimensional in vitro platform for the investigation… Read More
Join the University of Florida Diabetes Institute in the Centennial Celebration of Insulin’s Discovery
UF Diabetes Institute article 2021 marks the 100th year since Sir Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and Professor John Macleod from the University of Toronto reported the successful treatment of canine diabetes with a pancreas extract, now known as insulin. This… Read More
Bolch and researchers awarded $8.1M grant from the Department of Defense, Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, Distinguished Professor, Dr. John Aris, Associate Professor, and their collaborators on their $8.1M award from the Department of Defense, Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) titled, Aligning Dosimetry and Biomarkers of Lung Injury with Prophylaxis… Read More
NEUROAI WORKSHOPS BEGIN
UF College of Health & Human Performance This summer, five graduate students in the University of Florida Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (APK), join 10 graduate students in biomedical engineering, neuroscience and clinical psychology to learn about the… Read More