UF News By Jill Pease University of Florida researchers joined forces with scientists at NVIDIA, UF’s partner in its artificial intelligence initiative, and the OpenACC organization to significantly accelerate brain science as part of the Georgia Tech GPU Hackathon held… Read More
Congratulations to Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Ph.D., assistant professor, for having a collaborative group paper accepted in Cancer Research titled, Quantification of T- and B-cell immune receptor distribution diversity characterizes immune cell infiltration and lymphocyte heterogeneity in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, Instructional Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator, for receiving the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award for 2021-2022. Undergraduate Teacher of the Year is awarded to faculty who excel in the… Read More
UF News: by Jill Pease With advancements in HIV treatments, people with HIV are living longer. More than half of Americans with HIV are now over age 50. Yet with longer lives comes an additional health concern. As people living… Read More
Congratulations to UF BME undergrad Syed Tahir for being selected for the 2022 Emerging Scholars Program to work under the supervision of Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks. The Emerging Scholars Program from the UF Center for Undergraduate Research was established to introduce… Read More
A team of biomedical engineering students competed for the 2020-2021 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s competition was broken down into four tracks, mechanical/electrical, electrical/computer science, chemical/biological, anything COVID-19 geared. Two UF teams were selected as finalists… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates the following M.S. and Ph.D. graduates who obtained their degrees in Fall 2021. These are: Shreedevi Kumar, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Tissue-Specific Targeting of Inflammatory Pathways in Osteoarthritis Advisor: Dr.… Read More
Congratulations to the 2021 UFlorida iGEM Team for earning a silver medal for their work on addressing antimicrobial resistance by creating alternative selectable markers to antibiotic resistance genes. The iGEM Competition is an annual, world wide synthetic biology event that… Read More
Congratulations to Drs. Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Chemical Engineering Department Chair & Dean’s Leadership Professor, and Cherie Stabler, professor and Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, on receiving the 2021-2022 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of… Read More