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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 […]

By Sarah Carey  A human placenta-derived compound developed by a University of Florida faculty member in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is being used with promising results by veterinarians at UF’s College of Veterinary Medicine to treat animals with severe bone loss. Without the compound, the animals — which included a giraffe at the […]

Congratulations to UF BME Ph.D. student, Peng Liu, who has received an Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for his project titled, Neuroscience Inspired Deep Learning. The project aims at understanding how the human brain processes emotional information. Scientific studies have shown that emotion is a high-level cognitive process associated with complex interactions among different […]

Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & BME Department Chair, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently announced changes to the department’s leadership team. The following appointments take effect on July 1, 2020: Dr. Kevin Otto, Professor, appointed to Senior Associate Chair Dr. Walter Lee Murfee, Associate Professor, appointed […]

Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch who has been promoted to the title of Distinguished Professor, the highest level distinction as a faculty member. We appreciate his devoted work to educating the next generation of engineers! Bolch’s research seeks to develop rapid and clinically accessible computational tools for use by radiologists and radiation oncologists to assess […]

Congratulations to Dr. Parisa Rashidi and Dr. Blanka Sharma for their recent award of tenure and promotion to associate professor! This recognition reflects Rashidi and Sharma’s scholarly contributions to the discipline, the department and the institution. The tenure process involves recommendation by the department, review by the Board of Trustees and approval by the Dean. […]

Jorge A. Mojica Santiago, Ph.D. Lab: The Schmidt Lab: Biomimetic Materials & Neural Engineering, PI: Dr. Christine E. Schmidt Hometown: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Degree: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering Year you became a Gator: Fall 2018 From which institutions do you hold degrees? B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR (2012) Ph.D. Biomedical […]

Kyle See Lab: SMILE Lab Hometown: Jacksonville, FL Degree: Ph.D. student, Biomedical Engineering, UF Year you became a Gator: 2017 From which institutions do you hold degrees? University of Florida, B.S. in BME Research focus: Using machine learning algorithms to effectively understand and predict neural connections in the brain. I aim to improve predictive capabilities […]