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 department’s annual Holiday Party! Congratulations to the following… Read More
Skylar E. Stolte, a doctoral candidate in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the UF Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM) Clinical Translational Research Dissertation Award. This prestigious… Read More
The University of Florida’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering congratulates Seowung Leem, a Ph.D. candidate in the Smart Medical Informatics Learning & Evaluation (SMILE) Lab, on receiving the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the UF International Center.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Christine Schmidt, Distinguished Professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, on her election to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Ivana Parker, assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, for her groundbreaking research on the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which has been accepted for publication in the prestigious journal Molecular & Cellular… Read More
A team of biomedical engineering students from the University of Florida earned national recognition as finalists in the prestigious 2024 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s competition focused on innovative solutions in four categories: mechanical/electrical, electrical/computer science,… Read More
Ana Maria Porras, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to advance her research into how the human… Read More
Equipped with a cutting-edge nanoparticle imaging technology, federal funds and a quest to quash pain, researchers at the University of Florida are working to revolutionize osteoarthritis treatments. Central to the research is the Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) technology, a scanner… Read More
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering News Armed with a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, University of Florida biomedical professor Ivana Parker, Ph.D., is targeting one of the most common – and dangerous – infections in women.… Read More
The University of Akron News There are few things we encounter in our daily lives that have not been touched in some way by engineers. From bridges to clean water to mobile phones, we rely on engineers to create, design… Read More