Ryan Downey, Ph.D. Lab: Human Neuromechanics Laboratory Hometown: Boynton Beach, FL Degree: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Year you became a Gator: 2005 From which institutions do you hold degrees? University of Florida (BS, MS, PhD) and Politecnico di Milano (MS) Research… Read More

Congratulations to Robert Accolla for receiving the 2020 Graduate School Mentoring Award from the UF Graduate School. Accolla is a third year Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Cherie Stabler’s lab. His work focuses on engineering novel biomaterials for guiding the formation… Read More

Congratulations to BME’s five outstanding students who were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! These fellowships recognize and support exceptional graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees… Read More

Scott Thourson, Ph.D. Lab: Neuroprotheses Research Lab, PI: Dr. Kevin Otto Hometown: Mount Prospect, IL Degree: Ph.D. in Bioengineering Year you became a Gator: Fall 2018 From which institutions do you hold degrees? B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, IL… Read More

Kevin Otto Is Married to Neurotech by Jojo Platt Oh sure, he’s a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, and he has his neuroprostheses lab, and he’s dedicated to his work, but that’s not what I mean.… Read More

Walter Lee Murfee, associate professor, and collaborators research image was featured on the February 2020 issue of Microcirculation. The image is based on the original article titled, Lymphatic‐to‐blood vessel transition in adult microvascular networks: A discovery made possible by a… Read More

Julieth Gómez, BME student in the Brain Mapping Lab, was awarded the 2020-21 Diversity Enhancement Award from the UF Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives. Julieth is from Colombia and is a Fulbright Scholar who is finishing her M.S. and starting… Read More

Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D., known for her prominent contributions to biomaterials science and cellular/tissue engineering, has been chosen as a 2020 inductee into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & BME Department Chair,… Read More

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering has achieved its highest-ever position in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nations’ top biomedical engineering graduate programs. UF BME rose in rank to No. 13,… Read More