Category: BME News

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 […]

The University Scholars Program introduces undergraduate students at the University of Florida to the exciting world of academic research. In the program, students work one-on-one with UF faculty on selected research projects. The University Scholars Program serves as an exceptional capstone to the academic careers of UF students. The program will consist of undertaking a […]

Deanna Bousalis, Ph.D. candidate in the Schmidt Lab, received a 4-year $300K National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Creating Hydrogel Tissue Mimics to Better Understand Congenital Heart Disease. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, and educational expenses. Bousalis’ mentor on […]

For Immediate Release Carol Hall hall@ncsu.edu919.604.4383 Anant Paravastu anant.paravastu@chbe.gatech.edu404.385.4604 Greg Hudalla ghudalla@bme.ufl.edu352.273.9326 Matt Shipman matt_shipman@ncsu.edu919.515.6386 A team of researchers has verified that it is possible to engineer two-layered nanofibers consisting of an ordered row of alternating peptides, and has also determined what makes these peptides automatically assemble into this pattern. The fundamental discovery raises the […]

Stephanie Cernera, Ph.D. candidate in the Brain Mapping Lab, received a 4-year $300K National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Wearable-Sensor Driven Responsive Deep Brain Stimulation for the Improved Treatment of Essential Tremor. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, and educational […]