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
Dr. Jon Dobson, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional accolade bestowed solely to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific… Read More
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 8th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful event included a full day of student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and… Read More
UF BME sophomore, Julie Mallinger, and UF team members won a silver medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. The UF iGEM team selected the Synthetic Cellular Recorders Integrating Biological Events (SCRIBE) System because it gives amateur microbiologists… Read More
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students who won the BMES Medtronic Student Design Competition at the BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia: Team members include Altaful Amin, Justina Chan, Alexander Dluzneski, Youssef Elbanna, Marye Lee, Brian Nazareth, Henry Nguyen, and Giancarlo… Read More
Thank you to those who participated in our Halloween decorating contest! The panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around to the labs and seeing everyone’s fun and festive décor and we are excited to announce the winners!… Read More
In collaboration with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted an educational outreach event for students from K-12 to foster diversity and inspire the next generation of engineers. This one-day event… Read More
Congratulations to Mhairi K. MacLean, BME Ph.D. student, who is a finalist for the UF Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition for her work entitled, Moon-Walk with a Robot. MacLean is part of the Human Neuromechanics Lab and her research goal is… Read More
Gregory Hudalla, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). NIGMS is a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The… Read More