Congratulations to BME undergraduate students Max Rozenblum and Marco Melgar who each won presentation awards in the engineering category at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Max Rozenblum presented, “Microscopic Movies: a New Approach for Defining Cell Dynamics in… Read More
Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional accolade bestowed solely to academic inventors who have… Read More
Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair, has been awarded the 2019 Clemson Award for Applied Research from the Society for Biomaterials. Clemson Awards are given in honor of the strong traditional ties between the… Read More
Philip A. Barish (MS ’08, Ph.D. ’11 Biomedical Engineering) Philip Barish, Senior Vice President of Operations and R&D for AbSci has over 17 years of experience in bioengineering research, with expertise in bioprocessing, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, protein expression… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory A. Hudalla, assistant professor, Dr. Benjamin G. Keselowsky, professor, and their team on their manuscript titled, “Locally Anchoring Enzymes to Tissues via Extracellular Glycan Recognition,” that has been published in Nature Communications. Their collaborative research seeks… Read More
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 7th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful event included a full day of student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and… Read More
Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a $1.05M grant from JDRF (a leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research). Working with a collaborator, Dr Andres Garcia at Georgia… Read More
Thank you to those who participated in our Halloween decorating contest! The 7 panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around to the labs and seeing everyone’s fun and festive décor and we are excited to announce the… Read More
Congratulations to the following UF BME faculty on being selected to receive University of Florida Term Professorship awards. • Dr. Wesley E. Bolch, professor • Dr. Gregory A. Hudalla, assistant professor • Dr. Parisa Rashidi, assistant professor This recognition is… Read More
University of Florida researchers along with BME professor Dr. Kevin J. Otto are helping the National Institutes of Health build a 3D cellular map of the human body showing how tissues and organs differ on a cellular level. Otto along… Read More