Author: Crimmins,Candi

BME student selected as a HWCOE scholarship recipient

Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting for being selected as a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2020-2021 scholarship recipient! Her research focuses on multi-scale neuroimaging modeling and segmentation in the SMILE lab with Dr. Ruogu Fang.

9th Annual Pruitt Research Day

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 9th 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

Engineering professor uses AI to study brain functions

Original Article: UF Informatics Institute In order to better understand the center of human intelligence, Ruogu Fang uses artificial intelligence. Fang, an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, has used machine learning to understand, capitalize and model different aspects… Read More

Stabler awarded R01 grant from the NIH NIDDK

Cherie Stabler

Congratulations to Cherie Stabler, Ph.D., professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, for receiving a $1.7 million RO1 grant from the NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her project, “Engineering Immunomodulatory… Read More

Nichols Receives NIH NIBIB R21 Trailblazer Award

Jennifer A. Nichols, Ph.D., assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 Award for a project designed to use machine learning methods to understand the… Read More

Postdoc awarded NIH T32 TRAM Fellowship

Congratulations to Erika Pliner, Ph.D., who was awarded a NIH T32 Translational Research Training on Aging and Mobility (TRAM) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Pliner studies aging and mobility in the HNL by quantifying the efficacy of balance training paradigms from neuromechanical and biomechanical… Read More

BME Ph.D. candidate awarded NIH F31 NRSA Fellowship

Matthew Becker, Ph.D. candidate in the Phelps Lab, received a 3-year $300K National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for his project titled, Engineered Tolerogenic Exosomes for Treating Type 1 Diabetes… Read More

BME alumna receives BMES 2020 Career Development Award

Congratulations to BME alumna Yao Xiao, Ph.D., on being selected to receive a 2020 BMES Career Development Award. The prestigious award aims to “support travel to the BMES Annual Meeting for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Early Career Professionals from… Read More