Category: BME News

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 […]

UF College of Health & Human Performance   This summer, five graduate students in the University of Florida Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (APK), join 10 graduate students in biomedical engineering, neuroscience and clinical psychology to learn about the applications and fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically around machine learning. “With machine learning, we […]

Congratulations to Erika Pliner, Ph.D., for receiving the prestigious F32 NIH Individual Postdoctoral Research Award for her proposal, Efficacy of balance training with intermittent sensory perturbations. Pliner studies aging and mobility in the HNL by quantifying the efficacy of balance training paradigms from neuromechanical and biomechanical responses under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Ferris. Pliner’s research […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering has received gifts from the Adenbaum Foundation, George and Irene Harper, and Todd Goede to support nationally competitive local experiential learning opportunities for students. The donations, which build on the Adenbaum Foundation’s previous gifts, will fund a new summer internship program for undergraduates. This fund was […]

UF News By: Jill Pease Local 10 News WCJB The Alligator University of Florida researchers studying the use of a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment paired with cognitive training have found the therapy holds promise as an effective, drug-free approach for someday warding off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Yet determining optimal dosing for the treatment […]