Category: BME News

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 […]

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! See event photos and awardees here. Congratulations to the following outstanding BME faculty, staff and students! UF BME Faculty […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce the awardees of the 2023-2026 Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowships to recognize talented junior faculty! Congratulations to: Dr. Ruogu Fang, associate professor Dr. Sarah Furtney, instructional assistant professor & undergraduate coordinator Dr. Jennifer Nichols, assistant professor The Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowships […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering celebrated its 20th anniversary as a department. Established as a formal department in 2002, BME has been a national leader in basic and translational interdisciplinary research, from neural engineering to imaging to regenerative medicine. Commemorating the milestone started with Pruitt Research Day on November 29, 2022. […]

Congratulations to BME students Adriana Del Pino Herrera and Skylar Stolte, who have been selected for lightening talk presentations at the Fall 2022 HiPerGator Symposium. Skylar Stolte, Graduate Research Assistant DOMINO: Domain-aware Calibration in Medical Image Segmentation Skylar’s talk extends her project on calibrating deep learning models in medical imaging tasks. Deep learning calibration refers to […]