Category: BME News

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 […]

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 […]