Category: BME News

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome our Fall 2021 Ph.D. class!     Welcome to: Allison Campbell Lab: Schmidt Camara Casson Lab: Ferrall-Fairbanks Cameron Celeste Lab: Parker Robin Chen Lab: Vaillancourt Adriana Del Pino Herrera Lab: Ferrall-Fairbanks Laura Dinwiddie Lab: Bolch Natalie Geigel Lab: Gunduz Nien-Wen Hu Lab: […]

Science becomes art in the winning and notable photographs from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering 2020 Art of Research Photo Contest. Thank you to all who submitted their images! This annual event celebrates the art of research through the eyes of BME faculty, staff and students. Judging was based on scientific […]

Physical tuning of galectin-3 signaling Dr. Gregory Hudalla, Dr. Edward Phelps, and lab members’ recent work, “Physical tuning of galectin-3 signaling,” has been published by the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of Sciences the United States of America (PNAS). Team members: Shaheen A. Farhadi, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Hudalla Lab Renjie Liu, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Hudalla Lab […]

Yan Carlos Pacheco Lab: Dr. Kyle Allen Hometown: Havana, Cuba Research focus: My research direction over the past 4 years under Dr. Kyle Allen have focused upon various aspects of osteoarthritis. Areas of specific interest to me have included histological processing and analysis of rodent knees along with the role of Piezo-1 in osteoarthritis disease […]

Dr. Parisa Rashidi (Contact PI), Dr. Azra Bihorac (Co-PI), and several other UF researchers were awarded an NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) grant for their project titled ADAPT: Autonomous Delirium Monitoring and Adaptive Prevention. Delirium is a common acute brain dysfunction syndrome affecting up to 50% of patients in the Intensive […]

Angelie Rivera-Rodríguez, Ph.D. candidate in the Rinaldi-Ramos Lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for his project titled, Tracking Adoptive T Cell Therapy Using Magnetic Particle Imaging. She received funding to support her last year of Ph.D. studies. The objective of this project […]

Renae Burke Lab: Dr. Kevin Otto’s Neuroprostheses Research Lab Hometown: Orlando, FL Research focus: Developing a bidirectional brain-machine interface to provide sensory feedback from prosthetic hands relies on the chronic performance of neuroprostheses in both recording and stimulation. I am testing the stimulation and recording capabilities of an implantable microcoil to assess whether micromagnetic stimulation is […]

Pablo Luna Lab: None (But a special shoutout to Ian Malone under Dr. Kevin Otto, and Amanda Studnicki under Dr. Daniel Ferris for helping me find my passion) Hometown: Bogota, Colombia Research Focus: After spending some time working in the biomedical industry, I found that research wasn’t for me. I instead spent my last year […]

Leyda S. Marrero-Morales Lab: Dr. Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos Lab Hometown: Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Research focus: Magnetic nanoparticles have a variety of biomedical applications and we can visualize them with Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI). I’ve been working on simulating cancer experiments on a 3D-printed mouse to progress towards more ethical in vivo MPI research in our lab […]

Bryce Chapman Lab: Professor Dr. Lakiesha Williams Hometown: Boynton Beach, FL Research focus: The use of digital image correlation to characterize the mechanics of biological materials like adipose tissue. Fun fact: I have lived in Belgium and Costa Rica. What motivates you? The desire to always be learning and the goal to one day become […]