Congratulations to Dr. Kevin J. Otto, associate professor, Janak Gaire, Ph.D. neuroscience student, and co-workers whose manuscript entitled “PrismPlus: a mouse line expressing distinct fluorophores in four different brain cell types” was recently published in Scientific Reports. This publication describes… Read More
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BME Ph.D. student selected as grant recipient for WiCV
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Anis Davoudi, who was selected as a grant recipient for the 4th Annual Workshop for Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) for her paper entitled, “Autonomous detection of disruptions in the intensive care unit using deep… Read More
Announcing new industry partnership with Edwards Lifesciences
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce our newest industry partner, Edwards Lifesciences. Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Driven by a passion to help… Read More
BME faculty, staff and student receive HWCOE Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2018 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Faculty, Student and Staff Excellence Awards: Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, assistant professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, has been named the recipient of the 2018… Read More
SMILE lab wins first place in international competition on Retinal Image Analysis
Dr. Ruogu Fang’s SMILE Lab, in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai No. Six Hospital in China, won two first place awards at the Diabetic Retinopathy Segmentation and Grading Challenge (IDRiD) organized by the premier International Symposium on Biomedical… Read More
BME students accepted into NIH BESIP
Congratulations to BME undergraduate students, Anne Gormaley and Danny Xie, who were accepted into the prestigious NIH Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP). Gormaley will be working in the Developmental Neurobiology Section under the mentorship of Dr. Herbert M. Geller… Read More
BME alumni share their expertise at Alumni Connect
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering recently hosted an Alumni Connect event for undergraduate and graduate students. The department invited an outstanding group of UF BME alumni to share their roles in industry and non-industry backgrounds, their… Read More
BME Ph.D. student voted President for SFB National Student Chapter
Maggie Fettis, UF BME Ph.D. student, was elected President of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) National Student Chapter for the 2018-2019 academic year. Prior to being elected to SFB national president, Fettis was the UF SFB secretary (2015-2016) and UF… Read More
BME student tied for 1st place in Elegance of Science Art Contest
Deanna Bousalis, BME Ph.D. student, whose images titled, “Bubblegum Heart” and “The Developing Heart,” tied for 1st place in the Elegance of Science Art Contest from the UF Florida Museum. Bousalis’ winning images are of a mouse heart. One was a… Read More
Ferris to serve as member of National Institutes of Health study section
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Ferris, Robert W. Adenbaum Professor and senior associate chair, who has been invited to serve as a standing member of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences [MRS] study section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review. The MRS… Read More