Category: BME News

Dr. Parisa Rashidi was recently elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows! The College of Fellows is comprised of outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry and government, representing the top 2 % of medical and biological engineering professionals. Rashidi was elected for her visionary leadership in Medical AI research […]

Dr. Gregory Hudalla has been honored with the 2022 Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Outstanding Early-Career Paper Award for his exemplary leadership in the paper, ‘Heterogeneous protein co-assemblies with tunable functional domain stoichiometry.’ Hudalla’s research focuses on creating functional biomaterials for therapeutic or diagnostic applications through molecular self-assembly. His laboratory specializes in developing synthetic peptides […]

Dr. Wesley Bolch, Distinguished Professor and UF Term Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Teacher/Scholar of the Year for 2022-2023. Faculty members are nominated by students, faculty, and staff. Nominees were judged based on their excellence, effectiveness, and innovation within the classroom. As […]

This is the first instance of the UF Graduate School’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award being simultaneously awarded to two members from the same department. Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Allen, associate professor, and Kevin Otto, professor and senior associate chair, on receiving the 2022-2023 UF Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Arinola Lampejo on winning the UF Health Cancer Center 2023 Research Day Poster Award in the Graduate & Predoctoral Student Category for her poster titled, “Incorporation of Tumor Spheroids into an ex-vivo Tissue Culture Model to Investigate Cancer Cell-Microvascular Interactions.” A challenge in cancer research is the lack of biomimetic models […]

By Cody Hawley The University of Florida has been awarded $3.6 million of a $23.5 million multicenter grant for a four-year data-generation project that is unprecedented in its scope, aimed at building an infrastructure for artificial intelligence in critical care and advancing artificial intelligence in ways that improve patients’ ability to recover from life-threatening illnesses. […]

Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Allen, associate professor, and Kevin Otto, professor and senior associate chair, on receiving the 2022-2023 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of their credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring our students. Kyle Allen “One of Dr. […]

Drs. Parisa Rashidi & Azra Bihorac’s research on using AI in patient care was featured on NBC Nightly News Featured on NBC Nightly News Doctors at the University of Florida Health Center are using artificial intelligence to help monitor their patients. The findings will help them develop algorithms that will soon provide real-time health care […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class, breaking previous records for the number of faculty awarded in a single year. The honor, which includes alumni such […]

Funded by a $1.7 million R01 award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, a research arm of the National Institute of Health, a multidisciplinary University of Florida research team headed by Lakiesha Williams, Ph.D., associate professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, will test what they hope will […]