Category: BME News

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2021 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Faculty, Student, and Staff Excellence Awards: Dr. Kyle Allen, associate professor, received the HWCOE Faculty Excellence in Leadership Award. This award recognizes and rewards a faculty member who has best demonstrated extraordinary leadership within their department, the HWCOE, the university, and/or the […]

Two UF BME Ph.D. candidates were selected for an Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award. The Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the gator engineering community. Established in 2010 as part of the college’s centennial celebration, the Attributes of a Gator Engineer embody the college’s expectations […]

Dr. Christine Schmidt, known for her prominent contributions to biomaterials science and cellular/tissue engineering, has been elected a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). What the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine is to the Nation, ASEMFL is for the State of Florida. Individuals who are members of one of […]

Hyaluronic Acid Doped Liquid Metal Scaffold for Peripheral Nerve Communication Restoration and Regeneration After Neurotmesis BME undergraduate student Keer Zhang and team members placed in the top 5 out of 187 for their proposed project, “Hyaluronic Acid Doped Liquid Metal Scaffold for Peripheral Nerve Communication Restoration and Regeneration After Peripheral Neurotmesis” in the IgNITE Medical […]

On April 15, the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at UF hosted Undergraduate Research Day. Undergraduate Research Day is designed to showcase the quality of student research projects conducted during the academic year, as well as to inspire classmates in the biomedical engineering programs to pursue their research. We had sixteen undergraduate […]

Two J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering alumni have been recognized by the university in this year’s “40 under 40” awards, which honor outstanding young alumni whose achievements positively impact The Gator Nation® as they go further in their communities and professions. Even though 2020 was a challenging year medically, economically and socially, […]

Congratulations to BME’s six outstanding students who have been selected for the 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which recognizes exceptional students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We are so proud of our students being honored with this prestigious award!  Leilani Astrab […]

Article: UF Health By: Michelle Jaffee BME researcher: Dr. Ruogu Fang University of Florida researchers will broadly test a new artificial intelligence tool aimed at distinguishing the precise diagnosis for patients with early Parkinson’s disease or two related but distinct Parkinson’s-like syndromes under a new $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health announced […]

Congratulations to BME undergraduate student Sophia Saenz, who was selected to receive a 2021 Cato T. Laurencin Student Travel Fellowship through the Society For Biomaterials (SFB). This prestigious award is given to support undergraduate students of under-represented minorities in the field of biomaterials to attend the SFB Annual Meeting. Laurencin is a distinguished member of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, who has been invited to serve as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal Medical Image Analysis (Impact Factor = 11.148). Medical Image Analysis provides a forum for the dissemination of new research results in the field of medical and biological image analysis, with special emphasis on efforts […]