Category: BME News

Congratulations to Robert Accolla for receiving the 2020 Graduate School Mentoring Award from the UF Graduate School. Accolla is a third year Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Cherie Stabler’s lab. His work focuses on engineering novel biomaterials for guiding the formation of vessels and releasing therapeutics for local drug delivery. The goal of this work is […]

Congratulations to BME’s five outstanding students who were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! These fellowships recognize and support exceptional graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. We are so proud of our students being honored with this […]

Scott Thourson, Ph.D. Lab: Neuroprotheses Research Lab, PI: Dr. Kevin Otto Hometown: Mount Prospect, IL Degree: Ph.D. in Bioengineering Year you became a Gator: Fall 2018 From which institutions do you hold degrees? B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, IL (2013) Ph.D. Bioengineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (2018) Research focus: Our research has been focused […]

Kevin Otto Is Married to Neurotech by Jojo Platt Oh sure, he’s a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, and he has his neuroprostheses lab, and he’s dedicated to his work, but that’s not what I mean. His wife, Elizabeth Nunamaker, is the Assistant Director of the University of Florida’s ACS as […]

Walter Lee Murfee, associate professor, and collaborators research image was featured on the February 2020 issue of Microcirculation. The image is based on the original article titled, Lymphatic‐to‐blood vessel transition in adult microvascular networks: A discovery made possible by a top‐down approach to biomimetic model development. Emerging areas of vascular biology focus on lymphatic/blood vessel […]

Julieth Gómez, BME student in the Brain Mapping Lab, was awarded the 2020-21 Diversity Enhancement Award from the UF Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives. Julieth is from Colombia and is a Fulbright Scholar who is finishing her M.S. and starting her Ph.D. in the Fall. Her research combines large-scale data mining and machine learning techniques […]

Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D., known for her prominent contributions to biomaterials science and cellular/tissue engineering, has been chosen as a 2020 inductee into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & BME Department Chair, is one of seven inventors who will be inducted in September at an annual ceremony […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering has achieved its highest-ever position in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nations’ top biomedical engineering graduate programs. UF BME rose in rank to No. 13, up from No. 15 in 2020 among public programs. This ranking reflects the high esteem […]

Congratulations to UF BME professors, Drs. Kevin Otto, Lakiesha Williams, Carlos Rinaldi and Wesley Bolch, who were elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows!   Representing a select group of the top two percent of medical and biological engineering professionals, the College of Fellows is comprised of outstanding bioengineers in […]

Congratulations to Wesley Bolch, Ph.D., who received the 2019-2020 UF Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award from the UF Graduate School. The UF Graduate School’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral and Master of Fine Arts students through their final dissertation or fine arts thesis project. Nominations for […]