Category: BME News

Science becomes art in the winning and notable photographs from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering 2019 Art of Research Photo Contest. Thank you to all who submitted their images! This annual event celebrates the art of research through the eyes of BME faculty, staff and students. Judging was based on scientific […]

Anis Davoudi, a Ph.D. student in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a 2020 MCI Symposium Young Investigator Travel Scholarship to attend the 18th Annual Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium. Davoudi is a Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Dr. Rashidi, developing a system for automatic detection of delirium in patients […]

Congratulations to UF BME Ph.D. candidates, Jiapu Liang and Robert Accolla, who won presentation awards at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) annual meeting. A team from the Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS) visited the top 10 oral presentations authored by SYIS members to judge the submissions based on abstract scores. […]

Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, professor, who recently received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for 2019-2020. The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award recognizes excellence, innovation and effectiveness in doctoral student advising and mentoring. Bolch will be formally acknowledged at the Spring Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Awards Luncheon in April.

Cherie Stabler, Ph.D., professor, and Jennifer Nichols, Ph.D., assistant professor, have been named an Anderson Scholar Faculty Honoree from the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for being inspiring & influential to students. The award is named after James N. Anderson, who served as the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1910-1930). […]

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 outstanding BME faculty, staff and students! UF BME Faculty Research Excellence Award: Gregory Hudalla, Ph.D. […]

Dr. Jon Dobson, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional accolade bestowed solely to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact […]

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 8th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful event included a full day of student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community. We hold our celebration near the birth date of Dr. J. Crayton […]

UF BME sophomore, Julie Mallinger, and UF team members won a silver medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. The UF iGEM team selected the Synthetic Cellular Recorders Integrating Biological Events (SCRIBE) System because it gives amateur microbiologists the ability to couple a chosen stimulus with the desired mutation and quantify that signal. […]

Congratulations to the following undergraduate students who won the BMES Medtronic Student Design Competition at the BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia: Team members include Altaful Amin, Justina Chan, Alexander Dluzneski, Youssef Elbanna, Marye Lee, Brian Nazareth, Henry Nguyen, and Giancarlo Tejeda. The faculty mentor was Dr. Samsun Lampotang, the senior design instructor was Dr. Lakiesha […]