Category: BME News

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 […]

Tamara Ordonez Diaz, Ph.D. candidate in the Nichols lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31-Diversity) for her project titled, Integrating Biomechanics and Experimental Pain to Understand Compensatory Mechanisms in Symptomatic Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis. The prestigious fellowship […]

Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & BME Department Chair, recently announced changes to the department’s graduate leadership team.   The following appointment is effective August 16, 2022: Dr. Gregory Hudalla, associate professor, appointed to graduate coordinator Hudalla has a longstanding commitment to engineering leadership, both as an educator and researcher. His […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce our newest industry partner, Arthrex. Arthrex is a global leader in orthopedic surgical device design, research, manufacturing, and medical education. Arthrex develops and releases more than 1,000 new products and procedures yearly to advance minimally invasive orthopedics worldwide. Arthrex’s corporate headquarters is […]

Dr. Parisa Rashidi (PI), associate professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow and researchers awarded NIH NIA R21 grant to develop a new smartwatch-enabled symptom surveillance platform that will facilitate post-surgical care management. The proposed research can result in enhanced patient care workflow and early intervention, ultimately improving patient outcomes and decreasing healthcare costs […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted a celebration luncheon for the department’s summer undergraduate research interns. This internal Research Experience for Undergraduates program was created for our rising BME junior and senior undergraduate students. Students worked side-by-side with UF BME faculty and graduate students on active research projects and gained first-hand […]