BME News

UF BME at the BMES Annual Meeting

UF BME had an excellent turnout for the 2022 BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio this past month! Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the Department. Faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff members were all in… Read More

Keselowsky and Avram’s paper published in PNAS

Congratulations to Drs. Benjamin Keselowsky, co-corresponding author Dorina Avram, recent BME Ph.D. graduate Alexander Kwiatkowski, and coauthors on their paper being accepted in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) demonstrating antigen-specific therapies treating autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis. The team demonstrates… Read More

Engineering the Hi-Fi Brain

A public-private UF collaboration seeks to optimize clinical outcomes by pumping up the volume through novel neuroprostheses fabrication Every audiophile long ago celebrated the quantum leap from stereo to multichannel for their immersive listening experience. Now, through a $4.5 million… Read More

2022 Fall Welcome Event

Thank you to everyone who attended the Fall Welcome Event! We had a successful event as there were excellent networking opportunities for the entire BME family (students, staff, faculty, affiliates, collaborators, and supporters).  Dr. Schmidt, Chair and Pruitt Family Professor, reviewed… Read More

Lakiesha Williams Receives NIH Award to Study Dura Mater Grafts

From Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience Center Center Steering Committee member Lakiesha Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, recently received a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke. This $1.7M award will support her… Read More