Category: News

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor, Fixel Brain Mapping Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor and UF Term Professor, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers, who are recognized for their contributions to engineering and medical research, […]

UF News By Jill Pease University of Florida researchers joined forces with scientists at NVIDIA, UF’s partner in its artificial intelligence initiative, and the OpenACC organization to significantly accelerate brain science as part of the Georgia Tech GPU Hackathon held last month. The hackathon is designed to help computational scientists and researchers optimize their applications. […]

Congratulations to Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Ph.D., assistant professor, for having a collaborative group paper accepted in Cancer Research titled, Quantification of T- and B-cell immune receptor distribution diversity characterizes immune cell infiltration and lymphocyte heterogeneity in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The collaborative team from the University of Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, Instructional Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator, for receiving the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award for 2021-2022. Undergraduate Teacher of the Year is awarded to faculty who excel in the classroom. On the very first day of the semester, Furtney tells her students that she […]

UF News: by Jill Pease With advancements in HIV treatments, people with HIV are living longer. More than half of Americans with HIV are now over age 50. Yet with longer lives comes an additional health concern. As people living with HIV age, about half will experience some sort of cognitive decline. Now, with the […]

Congratulations to UF BME undergrad Syed Tahir for being selected for the 2022 Emerging Scholars Program to work under the supervision of Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks. The Emerging Scholars Program from the UF Center for Undergraduate Research was established to introduce outstanding full-time undergraduate students to the exciting world of academic research. In this program, students […]

A team of biomedical engineering students competed for the 2020-2021 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s competition was broken down into four tracks, mechanical/electrical, electrical/computer science, chemical/biological, anything COVID-19 geared. Two UF teams were selected as finalists for the final competition, Team Game of Stones & Team Fast and Fusion.  Top Finalists […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates the following M.S. and Ph.D. graduates who obtained their degrees in Fall 2021. These are: Shreedevi Kumar, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Tissue-Specific Targeting of Inflammatory Pathways in Osteoarthritis Advisor: Dr. Blanka Sharma Peng Liu, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Biology and Neuroscience Inspired Deep Learning Advisor:  Dr. […]

Congratulations to the 2021 UFlorida iGEM Team for earning a silver medal for their work on addressing antimicrobial resistance by creating alternative selectable markers to antibiotic resistance genes. The iGEM Competition is an annual, world wide synthetic biology event that gives students the opportunity to push the boundaries of synthetic biology by tackling everyday issues […]