Category: BME News

Thank you to those who participated in our Halloween decorating contest! The 7 panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around to the labs and seeing everyone’s fun and festive décor and we are excited to announce the winners! You can find event pictures here. Best Lab Theme & Best Trick or Treat […]

Congratulations to Adriana Del Pino Herrera for receiving the 2022 Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from the UF International Center. She was nominated by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and stood out as an embodiment of an excellent UF student in academics and in community engagement. Adriana’s research interests include learning about the mechanisms of […]

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 attendance and represented UF well. Several alums stopped by the UF booth to say hello […]

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 […]