Category: BME News

Congratulations to Erika Pliner, Ph.D., who was awarded a NIH T32 Translational Research Training on Aging and Mobility (TRAM) Postdoctoral Fellowship. 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 will investigate the neuromechanical components (i.e., […]

Matthew Becker, Ph.D. candidate in the Phelps Lab, received a 3-year $300K National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for his project titled, Engineered Tolerogenic Exosomes for Treating Type 1 Diabetes Autoimmunity. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, and educational expenses. Becker’s mentor on the […]

Congratulations to BME alumna Yao Xiao, Ph.D., on being selected to receive a 2020 BMES Career Development Award. The prestigious award aims to “support travel to the BMES Annual Meeting for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Early Career Professionals from underrepresented populations in biomedical engineering and/or involved in research and training focused on health disparities […]

A team of UF biomedical engineering students will be competing for the 2020 BMES Student Design competition. The group includes Zachary Boogaart, Christian Garcia, Stephen Michel, Sana Nimer, and Brandon Reid, as one of ten finalists for the virtual event. Sponsored by Medtronic, the competition’s topic is Medical Devices. Dr. Nikolaus Gravenstein and Dr. Yury […]

UF BME faculty member Sarah Rowlinson, Ph.D., lecturer (teaching-track professor), will receive the TERMIS-AM 2020 Educational Award during the TERMIS-AM conference. The Educational Award is presented based on the educational accomplishments of an individual who serves as an advisor/supervisor of students within the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Rowlinson focuses on course content […]

UF BME is pleased to announce that Jiapu Liang, a doctoral student and a graduate researcher in the Stabler Lab, will be awarded the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award during the upcoming 2020 TERMIS-AM Conference. Liang’s research focuses on the engineering of cell-based grafts for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes, specifically developing […]

A $2.5M NIH National Cancer Institute grant has been funded over a five-year period to the University of Florida J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to develop methods to quantify the interaction of radiation with the immune system. UF BME distinguished professor, Dr. Wesley Bolch, is dual PI with […]

Taylor Yeater, Ph.D. candidate in the Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Investigating the role of osteoarthritic pain and inflammation on autonomic nervous system shifts using preclinical models. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review has selected Daniel Ferris, Ph.D., Robert W. Adenbaum Professor, to serve as chair of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences (MRS) study section. Ferris will serve a two-year term beginning July 1, 2020. Ferris will lead a committee of researchers from across the country to evaluate applications […]

Eleana Manousiouthakis Lab: Biomimetic Materials and Neural Engineering Lab, PI: Dr. Christine E. Schmidt Hometown: Los  Angeles, CA Degree: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University Year you became a Gator: 2019 From which institutions do you hold degrees? BS, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011) MA, Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California (2013) PhD, Biomedical […]