UF Health News GAINESVILLE, Fla. — To address the need for new nonaddictive methods to treat pain, a University of Florida team has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to train postdoctoral fellows seeking… Read More
UF biomedical engineer inducted into prestigious National Academy of Engineering
Christine Schmidt, a UF distinguished professor, was honored Sunday among some of the country’s most notable engineers when she was formally inducted into the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering. The prestigious recognition celebrates her more than 25 years of improving lives… Read More
Ivana Parker, Ph.D., to receive the inaugural A. Oveta Fuller Award
University of Michigan Medical School News The inaugural A. Oveta Fuller Award was recently awarded to Ivana Parker, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). Parker will present a seminar on October 31,… Read More
BME Affiliate Faculty, Dr. James Liao, Awarded 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics
Join us in congratulating BME affiliate faculty, Dr. James Liao, Professor of Biology at the Whitney Laboratory, for being honored with the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics! This prestigious award, presented at MIT’s 34th Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony,… Read More
Pruitt Graduate Research and Alumni Engagement Day
Thank You for Making Pruitt Graduate Research and Alumni Engagement Day a Success! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in our Pruitt Graduate Research and Alumni Engagement Day! The event was a resounding success, featuring student talks, an… Read More
Ph.D. student publishes first-authored paper in Frontiers in Genetics
We are pleased to announce that Ph.D. student Adriana Del Pino Herrera, as first author, and Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks have recently published their article, “A War on Many Fronts: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for Novel Cancer Treatment Strategies,” in Frontiers in Genetics,… Read More
Ph.D. student awarded McKnight Dissertation Fellowship
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that David Johnson, Ph.D. student in the department, has been awarded the prestigious McKnight Dissertation Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund. The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program aims… Read More
BME Ph.D. candidate awarded NIH F31 NRSA Fellowship
Skylar Stolte, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Fang’s SMILE Lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) for her project “Mechanism, connectivity, and outcome prediction of anxiety intervention… Read More
UF BEAT Cancer Lab Publishes Research on Cell Migration Assay in GEN Biotechnology
Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, alongside alumna Kathleen Trang (first author) and Ph.D. student Adriana Del Pino Herrera, has achieved a significant milestone for the University of Florida’s BEAT Cancer Lab. Their newly published paper, “Development of an Automated Machine Learning-Driven Assay… Read More
STRONGER internship program provides students with valuable exposure to cancer research
UF Health News A new immersive summer internship at UF Health Cancer Center is helping science students from across the country explore cancer research. The STRONGER program invited UF graduate students to lead the summer research projects and mentor the interns, while they benefited… Read More