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
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student Peng Liu (SMILE Lab), who received the Best Abstract Award (undergraduate and graduate level) at the Montreal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN) conference. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, Liu was mentored by Dr. Ruogu Fang and Dr. Mingzhou… Read More
Congratulations to Christine Schmidt, Ph.D., professor and department chair, who was awarded the 2021 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society – Americas Chapter (TERMIS–AM) Commercialization/Innovation Award. Schmidt was nominated by Cherie Stabler, Ph.D., professor and Integra Lifesciences Term Professor,… Read More
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! Congratulations to the following… Read More
UF News Article by: Michelle Koidin Jaffee and Todd Taylor New research published today shows that a form of artificial intelligence combined with MRI scans of the brain has the potential to predict whether people with a specific type of… Read More
Congratulations to Drs. Samuel Wu, Robert Cook, Ruogu Fang and UF collaborators on their $2.5 million NIH grant titled “Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium Biomedical Data Repository.” Dr. Samuel Wu (MPI, Associate Chair and Professor, Biostatistics) and Dr. Robert… Read More
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 10th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful virtual event included student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Ivana Parker and Dr. Ana Maria Porras, who were selected as 2022 Global Fellows from the UF International Center. The International Center’s theme of learning without borders extends to our faculty and research community. Through the Global… Read More
By Doug Brown, UF Health Science Writer In the intensive care unit of the future, a patient’s pain level will be captured through visual cues such as body movement and facial expressions. Sensors will record head and limb movements, posture… Read More