A $2.5M NIH National Cancer Institute grant has been funded over a five-year period to the University of Florida J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to develop methods to quantify the interaction of radiation… Read More
Taylor Yeater, Ph.D. candidate in the Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Investigating the role of osteoarthritic pain and inflammation… Read More
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review has selected Daniel Ferris, Ph.D., Robert W. Adenbaum Professor, to serve as chair of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences (MRS) study section. Ferris will serve a two-year term beginning July 1,… Read More
Eleana Manousiouthakis Lab: Biomimetic Materials and Neural Engineering Lab, PI: Dr. Christine E. Schmidt Hometown: Los Angeles, CA Degree: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University Year you became a Gator: 2019 From which institutions do you hold degrees? BS, Biomedical… Read More
By Sarah Carey A human placenta-derived compound developed by a University of Florida faculty member in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is being used with promising results by veterinarians at UF’s College of Veterinary Medicine to treat animals with… Read More
Congratulations to UF BME Ph.D. student, Peng Liu, who has received an Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for his project titled, Neuroscience Inspired Deep Learning. The project aims at understanding how the human brain processes emotional information. Scientific studies… Read More
Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & BME Department Chair, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently announced changes to the department’s leadership team. The following appointments take effect on July 1, 2020: Dr.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch who has been promoted to the title of Distinguished Professor, the highest level distinction as a faculty member. We appreciate his devoted work to educating the next generation of engineers! Bolch’s research seeks to develop… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Parisa Rashidi and Dr. Blanka Sharma for their recent award of tenure and promotion to associate professor! This recognition reflects Rashidi and Sharma’s scholarly contributions to the discipline, the department and the institution. The tenure process involves… Read More
Jorge A. Mojica Santiago, Ph.D. Lab: The Schmidt Lab: Biomimetic Materials & Neural Engineering, PI: Dr. Christine E. Schmidt Hometown: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Degree: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering Year you became a Gator: Fall 2018 From which institutions do you… Read More