Month: June 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hudalla for his recent award of tenure and promotion to associate professor! This recognition reflects Hudalla’s scholarly contributions to the discipline, the department and the institution. The tenure process involves recommendation by the department, review by the Board of Trustees and approval by the Dean. Hudalla received his Ph.D. in Biomedical […]

Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, and UF Collaborators received a University of Florida Informatics Institute (Supporting Effective Educator Development) SEED Award for their research titled, “Multimodal Visual-Text Learning from Clinical Narrative and Image for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy.” Fang (Co-PI) and Dr. Yonghui Wu (PI), assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & […]

Congratulations to industry partner, RTI Surgical! Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Health and Medical Technology Products and Companies DEERFIELD, Ill., June 05, 2019 — RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTIX), a global surgical implant company, today announced MedTech Breakthrough has selected TETRAfuse® 3D Technology as the “Best New Technology Solution – Orthopedics” in their 2019 Awards Program. MedTech Breakthrough is […]

Congratulations to BME doctoral students Sarah Long (Gunduz Lab) and Kyle See (Fang Lab) who were awarded an NIH CTSI TL1 Predoctoral Fellowship. The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) TL1 Predoctoral Training Program provides predoctoral trainees with the skills required to develop a career in multidisciplinary clinical and translational research. The program uses a […]

Dr. Jon Dobson, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and collaborators’ article, “Nanoscale synchrotron X-ray speciation of iron and calcium compounds in amyloid plaque cores from Alzheimer’s disease subjects” was one of the most impactful and highly cited articles in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nanoscale journal over the last two years. Altered metabolism of biometals […]

Congratulations to Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow,  who has been invited to serve as a standing member of the Emerging Imaging Technologies for Neuroscience (EITN) Study Section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review. EITN study section reviews applications to develop biomedical imaging for studying problems in neuroscience, […]