Category: BME News

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 10th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful virtual event included student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community. We hold our celebration near the birth date of Dr. J. Crayton Pruitt Sr. whose […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ivana Parker and Dr. Ana Maria Porras, who were selected as 2022 Global Fellows from the UF International Center. The International Center’s theme of learning without borders extends to our faculty and research community. Through the Global Fellows Program, UF faculty can kick-start their international research program. A seed grant of $5,000 […]

By Doug Brown, UF Health Science Writer In the intensive care unit of the future, a patient’s pain level will be captured through visual cues such as body movement and facial expressions. Sensors will record head and limb movements, posture and mobility. Other monitors will detect and adjust light and noise levels to optimal levels. […]

By Todd Taylor Dr. Aysegul Gunduz Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D., an associate professor in University of Florida’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named the inaugural Fixel Brain Mapping Professor. The Lauren and Lee Fixel Foundation established the professorship with a $1 million gift to support a faculty member focused on brain mapping and […]

Thank you to those who participated in our annual Halloween contest! The panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around and seeing everyone’s creative ideas and we are excited to announce the winners! You can find event pictures here.   Best Individual Costume Winner: Blanca Ostmark               […]

By Allison Logan A team of researchers at the University of Florida will explore ways to increase trustworthiness and interpretability of artificial machine learning in healthcare under a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team will also investigate ways to use AI to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases earlier. The project will provide […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that twenty-five BME undergraduate students each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Molares, Oriana Hilo, Sireen S Chan, Vanessa Richards, Tisana Joanna Sweeting, Gianna L Kotlarz, Parker Louis Rashid, Adeeb De La Espriella, Juan Esteban Zhang Keer […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ALPCO’s Summer 2021 Diabetes Research Travel Grant has been awarded to Mollie Huber, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Biomedical Sciences program at the University of Florida. Mollie’s novel research utilizes live human and mouse pancreatic tissue slices to study the genuine islet microenvironment in autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes. Her […]

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Taylor, assistant professor, who was accepted to the Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) workshop. The competitive TIGRR workshop provides one-on-one mentorship to researchers facing their first major research grant.  The annual four-day workshop includes structured sessions on hypothesis development, study design, federal funding mechanisms, and peer review, with a […]

Congratulations to Cristina Isusi Silgo, BME undergraduate student, for being selected for the Innovation Fellows Program, a joint program between the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and Warrington College of Business. The program is designed to take a select group of undergraduate students from the two colleges, have them form interdisciplinary teams, and […]