Congratulations to Dr. Jim Schumacher and team (listed below) who were selected to participate in the Coulter College Student Program! Coulter College is being held for the second year in conjunction with the 2013 BMES Annual Meeting in Seattle. The… Read More
BME undergraduate advising available
Advising for BME students will be available through Fall drop/add. Click to make an appointment. Freshmen are discouraged to make an appointment now because there is little BME can do to get you in your courses. There will be extensive… Read More
Dr. Bruce Wheeler elected as BMES Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Bruce Wheeler on his election as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! BMES Fellow is a distinction reserved for only a few select BMES members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical… Read More
Dr. Parisa Rashidi joins UF BME
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome Dr. Parisa Rashidi, who has recently accepted an Assistant Professor position! Dr. Rashidi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Informatics Division at the Feinberg… Read More
BME Affiliate Dr. Tanmay Lele’s lab has paper selected for BMES Award
Nandini Shekhar, of BME Affiliate Dr. Tanmay Lele’s lab, has her work featured as one of four most outstanding cellular and molecular bioengineering papers at the 2013 BMES meeting. Her paper titled “Fluctuating Motor Forces Bend Growing Microtubules” investigates the… Read More
UF BME featured in summer edition of Explore magazine
The Summer 2013 issue of the Explore Magazine highlights the research efforts of five faculty members from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida: Drs. Wesley Bolch, Jon Dobson, Huabei Jiang, Christine Schmidt… Read More
Associate Professor Hans van Oostrom elected as an ASEE officer
Associate Chair and Associate Professor Hans van Oostrom was elected as an officer of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Division (BED). His position is Member-At-Large and his responsibility will be to participate on the BED Executive… Read More
BME student, Olga Gopan, invited to the 2013 Young Investigator’s Award Symposium
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Olga Gopan, who has been invited to the 2013 Young Investigator’s Award Symposium of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting this August in Indianapolis, Indiana! Her presentation is entitled, “Molecular breast imaging… Read More
Associate Professor Benjamin Keselowsky invited to give talk at the FOCIS Annual Meeting
Congratulations to Associate Professor Benjamin Keselowsky who was invited to give a talk entitled, “Dendritic Cell Targeting Microparticle Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes”, at the Federation of Clinical Immunological Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting this June in Boston. The full abstract… Read More
BME students compete in ASAIO design competition
A biomedical engineering design team composed of undergraduate students from the University of Florida’s College of Engineering competed with 30 other universities in a design competition hosted by the American Society of Artificial Organs (ASAIO). After two rounds of… Read More