Dr. Justin Sanchez, manager of DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory program and graduate of the UF BME program, is quoted in the November issue of Delta Sky Magazine. In the article titled, “Reconnecting the Brain”, Dr. Sanchez talks about a new… Read More
UF BME showed up big during the 2014 BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas! Several faculty were involved as track, platform session and poster chairs, as well as serving as abstract reviewers (details below). In addition, our Department Chair… Read More
Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, the Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received the Women’s Initiatives Committee’s (WIC) Mentorship Excellence Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The… Read More
Dr. Kevin Otto was recently quoted in a Nature news article titled, “Artificial arms get closer to the real thing”. Read the full story here: http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-arms-get-closer-to-the-real-thing-1.16111 Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields… Read More
The Brain Mapping Laboratory, directed by Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, was highlighted in CNN’s Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta for their work on closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Tourette syndrome. This work is a collaborative effort with Dr. Michael… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Cherie Stabler and her collaborators who were recently awarded with an impressive $4.9M NIH UC4 grant. The proposal titled, “Engineering a Human Physiomimetic Islet Microsystem”, seeks to develop an organ-on-a-chip platform for pancreatic beta cells which serve… Read More
The Health Physics Society selected BME graduate student, Michael Hermansen as the recipient of the J. Newell Stannard Fellowship. The award, valued at $5000 will assist Michael in pursuing his graduate studies in Medical Physics. In addition, he is provided… Read More
The 6th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (MBEC 2014) was sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 7-11, 2014. This conference continues the series of well-known European IFMBE Conferences held in… Read More
Professor Bruce Wheeler, President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine in Biology Society (EMBS), reported a successful 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC; Chicago, August 26-30, 2014), with over 2700 attendees, 2800 presentations, 25 workshops and 40… Read More
Originally published by UF College of Medicine Insider, August 26, 2014. “UF developing mixed-reality simulators for training in treatment of injured soldiers” by April Frawley Birdwell On the battlefield, wounded soldiers depend on how quickly and efficiently medical personnel can… Read More