Category: BME News

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 that an antigen-specific microparticle treatment can reverse mouse hind limb paralysis when administered in advanced […]

University of Florida researchers led by Dr. Kyle D. Allen (PI, UF BME) are helping the RE-JOIN Consortium, a nationwide program by the National Institutes of Health, to advance the understanding of pathology-pain relationships in the knee and TMJ by combining expertise in neural tracing, 3-dimensional imaging, and evaluations of chronic joint pain and disability. […]

UF BME student Skylar Stolte was awarded Women in MICCAI (WiM) Best Oral Presentation Award Paper Runner-Up at the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. Skyler presented her work titled, “DOMINO: Domain-aware Calibration in Medical Image Segmentation,” in Singapore on Sep. 20. This work designs a novel similarity-based loss function […]

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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 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two researchers in the Herbert Wertheim College […]

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 the past year’s successes and discussed plans for the future. We also had a very […]

Cherie Stabler, Ph.D., Professor & Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, is the recipient of the 2022-2023 UF Foundation Preeminence Term Professorship. She was recognized for her research and outstanding record of accomplishment. The UF Foundation’s Term Professorship program was created in 2013 to support UF’s Preeminence goals. Each fall, the Foundation awards two $25,000 term professorships for […]

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 work comparing the effectiveness of commercially available, naturally-derived dural grafts and acellular xenogeneic dural grafts […]

A University of Florida chemical and biomedical engineering researcher has received three grants that will use a novel type of imaging to advance research on cancer immunotherapy treatment and brain injury. The studies aim to provide researchers and clinicians with key insight into how patients with cancers such as refractory brain tumors respond to immunotherapy […]

Dr. Kevin Otto, Professor & Senior Associate Chair, has been named a 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow. BMES will honor this year’s Class of Fellows during the society’s annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. BMES Fellows are recognized for impactful achievements and significant contributions within the biomedical engineering community. They also have considerable leadership […]