Category: BME News

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 […]

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 […]