Month: August 2020

A team of UF biomedical engineering students will be competing for the 2020 BMES Student Design competition. The group includes Zachary Boogaart, Christian Garcia, Stephen Michel, Sana Nimer, and Brandon Reid, as one of ten finalists for the virtual event. Sponsored by Medtronic, the competition’s topic is Medical Devices. Dr. Nikolaus Gravenstein and Dr. Yury […]

UF BME faculty member Sarah Rowlinson, Ph.D., lecturer (teaching-track professor), will receive the TERMIS-AM 2020 Educational Award during the TERMIS-AM conference. The Educational Award is presented based on the educational accomplishments of an individual who serves as an advisor/supervisor of students within the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Rowlinson focuses on course content […]

UF BME is pleased to announce that Jiapu Liang, a doctoral student and a graduate researcher in the Stabler Lab, will be awarded the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award during the upcoming 2020 TERMIS-AM Conference. Liang’s research focuses on the engineering of cell-based grafts for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes, specifically developing […]

A $2.5M NIH National Cancer Institute grant has been funded over a five-year period to the University of Florida J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to develop methods to quantify the interaction of radiation with the immune system. UF BME distinguished professor, Dr. Wesley Bolch, is dual PI with […]