Category: BME News

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 […]

Thank you to those who participated in our Halloween decorating contest! The panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around to the labs and seeing everyone’s fun and festive décor and we are excited to announce the winners! You can find event pictures here.   Best Trick-or-Treats – Nichols Lab       […]

In collaboration with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted an educational outreach event for students from K-12 to foster diversity and inspire the next generation of engineers. This one-day event hosted 44 students from Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida, and featured hands-on activities, presentations, […]

Congratulations to Mhairi K. MacLean, BME Ph.D. student, who is a finalist for the UF Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition for her work entitled, Moon-Walk with a Robot. MacLean is part of the Human Neuromechanics Lab and her research goal is to improve gait rehabilitation at a low cost. She designed a body weight support system […]

Gregory Hudalla, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). NIGMS is a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $1.8M grant will fund Hudalla’s study of “Glycosylation as a Structural Determinant in Peptide Fibrillization” […]

Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Engineering professor, and collaborators at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on their NIH grant entitled, MIRDCalc – A Community Tool for Deriving and Reporting Patient Organ Doses in Nuclear Medicine, Computed Tomography, and Hybrid Imaging. Dosimetry refers to the science […]

Congratulations to Dr. Lakiesha N. Williams, associate professor, who was accepted to the highly selective Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) workshop. TIGRR is an intensive writing workshop that provides one-on-one mentorship to researchers in support of their grant applications to NIH.  The annual four-day workshop includes structured sessions on hypothesis development, study design, […]

We want to see research through your eyes! Our annual photo contest presents an opportunity for BME faculty (primary and affiliates), staff and students to showcase their research visually. Enter your favorite photo (or two). What makes a photograph a winner? Technical quality, clarity and composition are all important, but so too is a flair […]