Category: BME News

Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor & Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, has been named a 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow. The BMES awards Fellow status to members who have demonstrated exceptional achievement while maintaining a consistent record of participation within the society. It’s a designation generally given to some of the most accomplished leaders in the […]

Congratulations to Drs. Mingzhou Ding (PI), Distinguished Professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and Andreas Keil (PI), professor, department of psychology, for their collaborative NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grant titled, Acquisition, extinction, and recall of attention biases to threat: Computational modeling and multimodal brain imaging. The $2.3 million project will […]

We are thrilled to welcome alum Dr. Jamal Lewis to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Lewis will join the department as an associate professor in Summer 2022. Lewis completed his B.S. in chemical engineering from Florida A&M University in 2004 and M.S. in biomedical engineering in 2007 from North Carolina State […]

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering rose to No. 18 from 19th for best undergraduate engineering programs among public universities, and eight of its 11 engineering specialties were listed among the Top 20 in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings, released this week. Positioned among the Top 20 undergraduate engineering schools in the […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Charlie Tran, who has been selected to participate in the 2021 NextProf PathFinder Workshop: Preparing the Next Generation of Scientific and Technological Leaders at the University of Michigan on October 17-19, 2021. The NextProf Pathfinder is a two-day program developed at Michigan Engineering and aimed at first and second-year Ph.D. students, as well […]

Congratulations to the following UF BME faculty on being selected to receive a three-year University of Florida Term Professorship. Wesley Bolch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor & UF Term Professor Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor & UF Term Professor This recognition is for excellence in teaching, research and service recommended by their college […]

Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting, undergraduate student in the SMILE lab, who received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering John & Mittie Collins Engineering Scholarship. Gianna’s current research topic focuses on using genomic data to discover genetic variants that can be associated with the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. Currently she is learning how to use genomic […]

Magdalena Samojlik, Ph.D. candidate in the Stabler lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Engineering a dynamic three-dimensional in vitro platform for the investigation of human Type 1 Diabetes immunopathogenesis. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, and educational […]

UF Diabetes Institute article 2021 marks the 100th year since Sir Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and Professor John Macleod from the University of Toronto reported the successful treatment of canine diabetes with a pancreas extract, now known as insulin. This discovery represented not only a remarkable scientific achievement, but more importantly, provided a life-saving intervention […]

Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, Distinguished Professor, Dr. John Aris, Associate Professor, and their collaborators on their $8.1M award from the Department of Defense, Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) titled, Aligning Dosimetry and Biomarkers of Lung Injury with Prophylaxis and Mitigation of Damage from Radionuclides and Metals. A team of investigators at the University […]