Category: BME News

Congratulations to Dr. May Mansy (Co-PI) and UF collaborators for their recent grant funded by the UF Office of Research on their project, Cultivating equity in STEM classrooms at UF: A multidisciplinary collaboration to create a training course in inclusive, antiracist teaching practices for Learning Assistants (LAs) in STEM courses. Only 20% of underrepresented students […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, lecturer and undergraduate coordinator, for being selected to receive the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate/Advisor Mentor of the Year for 2020-21. This honor, based on an extensive review of her credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring our students. College Undergraduate Adviser/Mentor Award […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering officially opened the improved Senior Design space. The room will support students in the biomedical engineering senior design class, a project-based course designed for custom strategies to address real-life issues in developing biocompatible and biomimetic devices for biotechnology or biomedical applications. Student teams work with clients […]

Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the 2020 BME Annual Holiday Party. Congratulations to the following outstanding BME faculty, staff and students! UF BME Faculty Research Excellence Award: Parisa Rashidi, […]

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hudalla, associate professor, for his article, “Charge guides pathway selection in β-sheet fibrillizing peptide co-assembly” which has published in the prestigious Nature journal Communications Chemistry. Communications Chemistry Paper Behind The Paper The assembly of peptides into elongated fibrillar structures is widely used to create biomaterials for medical and biotechnology applications. Co-assembly […]

Forbes Article Radiological Society of North America Press Release: OAK BROOK, Ill. — A simple eye exam combined with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning technology could provide early detection of Parkinson’s disease, according to research being presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Parkinson’s disease is a progressive […]

Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting for being selected as a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2020-2021 scholarship recipient! Her research focuses on multi-scale neuroimaging modeling and segmentation in the SMILE lab with Dr. Ruogu Fang.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 9th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful virtual event included student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community. We hold our celebration near the birth date of Dr. J. Crayton Pruitt Sr. whose […]

Original Article: UF Informatics Institute In order to better understand the center of human intelligence, Ruogu Fang uses artificial intelligence. Fang, an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, has used machine learning to understand, capitalize and model different aspects of brain dynamics for the last ten years. She works extensively on neuroimaging and keeps […]

Congratulations to Dr. Jon Dobson (PI) on being awarded a University of Florida Industry Partnership (UFLIPS) agreement between UF researchers and 42Bio. 42Bio’s system, developed at UF, with funding from the NIH, is based on a novel design concept that employs high-gradient magnet arrays and planar-flow separation chambers. Magnetic cell and biomolecule separation is used […]