Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, whose research titled, STIR-Net: Spatial-Temporal Image Restoration Net for CTPerfusion Radiation Reduction, was recently published in Frontiers in Neurology, section Stroke. Fang and UF BME researchers, Yao Xiao, Ph.D. student; Peng Liu, Ph.D.… Read More
Dr. Jennifer A. Nichols, assistant professor, has been selected to receive support through the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) KL2 Multidisciplinary Scholars Program. Nichols’ KL2 research project seeks to identify the biomechanical, neuromuscular, and somatosensory mechanisms that contribute… Read More
Congratulations to Robert Eisinger, an M.D.-Ph.D. student pursuing his doctoral work in Dr. Aysegul Gunduz’ lab, who received an NIH F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award Predoctoral Dual-Degree Fellowship. The purpose of the F30 program is to enhance the… Read More
Dr. Blanka Sharma, assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award Winner. Sharma’s achievement will allow her to develop biomaterials and… Read More
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. candidate, Shaheen Farhadi, who received a Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award from the Society for Biomaterials for his abstract titled, “Locally Anchoring Proteins to Target Tissues via Fusion to Galectin-3.” Farhadi, under the guidance of… Read More
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Zhenhong Hu, for receiving the Outstanding International Student Award by the UF International Center. Hu’s advisor is Dr. Mingzhou Ding and his research interests are in the field of cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on… Read More
Scientific Reports article UF Health News article, by Doug Bennet For UF Health video, please click here. In a hospital’s intensive care unit, doctors get a cascade of data about each patient’s condition that can be challenging to quickly organize… Read More
UF Engineers solve 50+-year-old enzyme dissipation and distortion puzzle, opening the door to enzyme therapy for osteoarthritis, periodontal disease and, potentially, cancer A 50-year-old problem Since the 1960s, scientists have known that employing enzymes as drugs would afford new opportunities… Read More
Dr. Parisa Rashidi, assistant professor, was recently awarded a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Trailblazer R21 Award for assessing pain management in ICU patients. The under-assessment of pain response is one of the primary barriers to the… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding, distinguished professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, who recently received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for 2018-2019. Ding’s mentoring philosophy is to design a research program that takes each… Read More