Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Arinola Lampejo on winning the UF Health Cancer Center 2023 Research Day Poster Award in the Graduate & Predoctoral Student Category for her poster titled, “Incorporation of Tumor Spheroids into an ex-vivo Tissue Culture Model to… Read More
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UF to use $23.5 million grant to build AI infrastructure to improve critical care
By Cody Hawley The University of Florida has been awarded $3.6 million of a $23.5 million multicenter grant for a four-year data-generation project that is unprecedented in its scope, aimed at building an infrastructure for artificial intelligence in critical care… Read More
Allen and Otto receive 2022-2023 HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award
Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Allen, associate professor, and Kevin Otto, professor and senior associate chair, on receiving the 2022-2023 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of their credentials, letters of recommendation, and… Read More
High-tech hospital uses artificial intelligence in patient care
Drs. Parisa Rashidi & Azra Bihorac’s research on using AI in patient care was featured on NBC Nightly News Featured on NBC Nightly News Doctors at the University of Florida Health Center are using artificial intelligence to help monitor their… Read More
American Association for the Advancement of Science honors 19 UF faculty as Lifetime Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class, breaking previous records for… Read More
Engineering a Gold Standard Patch for the Brain-Cranium Barrier
Funded by a $1.7 million R01 award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, a research arm of the National Institute of Health, a multidisciplinary University of Florida research team headed by Lakiesha Williams, Ph.D., associate professor in… Read More
2022 BME Departmental Excellence Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the department’s annual Holiday Party! See event photos and… Read More
New Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowships Awardees
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce the awardees of the 2023-2026 Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowships to recognize talented junior faculty! Congratulations to: Dr. Ruogu Fang, associate professor Dr. Sarah Furtney, instructional assistant… Read More
Pruitt Research Day & 20th Anniversary
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering celebrated its 20th anniversary as a department. Established as a formal department in 2002, BME has been a national leader in basic and translational interdisciplinary research, from neural engineering to imaging… Read More
BME students selected for lightening talk presentations at Fall 2022 HiPerGator Symposium
Congratulations to BME students Adriana Del Pino Herrera and Skylar Stolte, who have been selected for lightening talk presentations at the Fall 2022 HiPerGator Symposium. Skylar Stolte, Graduate Research Assistant DOMINO: Domain-aware Calibration in Medical Image Segmentation Skylar’s talk extends her… Read More