Category: BME News

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering held UF BME Field Day on July 28 to allow faculty, students and staff to connect and have a wellness activity break during the summer. The event was located on campus at Flavet Field and offered a place to relax and enjoy the outdoors. This is […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney for receiving the 2022 Career Influencer Award. The University of Florida Career Influencer Awards celebrate the collaboration and innovation of our partners who have had an exceptional impact on career development and career engagements during the preceding academic year. As noted by her colleagues and students, “Dr. Furtney has been […]

Dr. Wesley Bolch and researchers were awarded an NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases program project grant for $10.7 million to conduct multiscale evaluations and to investigate mitigation of toxicities following internal radionuclide contamination. Wesley Bolch, PhD, (PI) Distinguished Progressor and UF Term Professor will lead the efforts for the University of Florida.  […]

UF News by Blake Trauschke The University of Florida is one of the best universities at moving new discoveries from the lab and into the real world through research commercialization and STEM graduates, according to a study by Heartland Forward. The report, “Research to Renewal: Advancing University Tech Transfer,” was produced by Heartland Forward, a […]

Summer 2022 UF Researchers Daniel Ferris, Ph.D., and Rachael Seidler, Ph.D., teamed up to bring more than 20 middle school students to campus this summer for a free, week-long summer camp aimed at empowering girls to explore neuroscience. Held July 18-22 in the Florida Gym, the camp brought sixth, seventh and eighth graders together for […]

Received by the Atomic Bomb Survivors in 1945 Japan By, Dr. Wesley Bolch, Distinguished Professor   A little background of the discovery and immediate medical uses of ionizing radiation Ionizing radiation has been used in medical imaging and radiotherapy virtually since the time of its discovery.  In December of 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen announced details of […]

Ben Keselowsky, Ph.D., a professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at UF, and Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Surgery in the UF College of Medicine, are leading a three-year, $2.6M R01 project funded by the National Institute […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, who received tenure and promotion to associate professor effective August 2022. This recognition reflects Fang’s scholarly contributions to the discipline, the department, and the institution. The tenure process involves recommendation by the department, review by the Board of Trustees, and approval by the Dean. In 2017, Fang joined the department […]

Congratulations to Dr. Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D. candidate Sabyasachi Bandyopadhyay and collaborators whose manuscript entitled, “Variational autoencoder provides proof of concept that compressing CDT to extremely low-dimensional space retains its ability of distinguishing dementia” was recently published in Scientific Reports. Abstract The clock drawing test (CDT) is an inexpensive tool to screen for dementia. In this […]

Science becomes art in the winning and notable photographs from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering 2019 Art of Research Photo Contest. Thank you to all who submitted their images! This annual event celebrates the art of research through the eyes of BME faculty, staff and students. Judging was based on scientific […]