Category: BME News

Alexis Brake Lab: Neuroprostheses Research Lab PI: Dr. Kevin Otto Hometown: Tampa, Fl Research focus: Broadly, I am interested in neuroinflammation. In the NPR Lab, my research has focused on the foreign body response to neural implants. Nearly 2.5 million Americans face life-altering limb loss, paralysis, and/or sensory impairment, which has created a $9.5 billion […]

Congratulations, UF BME Class of 2020! “On behalf of the department, I extend sincere congratulations and best of luck to the Class of 2020. We are immensely proud of your work and accomplishments! Best wishes to each of you, and please stay in touch.” Dr. Christine E. Schmidt   A MESSAGE FROM DR. CHRISTINE SCHMIDT […]

Ryan Downey, Ph.D. Lab: Human Neuromechanics Laboratory Hometown: Boynton Beach, FL Degree: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Year you became a Gator: 2005 From which institutions do you hold degrees? University of Florida (BS, MS, PhD) and Politecnico di Milano (MS) Research focus: My research focuses on mobile brain imaging. I record electrical brain activity with high-density […]

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 […]