By: Doug Bennett A group of University of Florida researchers will use a new $5 million grant to develop a “pancreatic islet on a chip” — a platform that will allow them to more efficiently and effectively study Type 1… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome Dr. Eric Fuller and Dr. May Mansy, who have recently accepted a lecturer position. Eric Fuller, Ph.D. B.S., Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 2015 Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering,… Read More
Congratulations to Tamara Ordonez Diaz, BME Ph.D. student, who has been selected to participate in the 2019 NextProf Pathfinder Workshop: Preparing the Next Generation of Scientific and Technological Leaders at the University of Michigan on Sept. 18-21, 2019. The intense… Read More
Congratulations to the following UF BME faculty on being selected to receive University of Florida Term Professorship awards: Dr. Kevin Otto, professor Dr. Blanka Sharma, assistant professor Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor This recognition is for excellence in teaching, research and… Read More
Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, has been named a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Donald Trump. The PECASE, established in 1996, is the… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hudalla for his recent award of tenure and promotion to associate professor! This recognition reflects Hudalla’s scholarly contributions to the discipline, the department and the institution. The tenure process involves recommendation by the department, review by… Read More
Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, and UF Collaborators received a University of Florida Informatics Institute (Supporting Effective Educator Development) SEED Award for their research titled, “Multimodal Visual-Text Learning from Clinical Narrative and Image for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy.” Fang… Read More
Congratulations to industry partner, RTI Surgical! Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Health and Medical Technology Products and Companies DEERFIELD, Ill., June 05, 2019 — RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTIX), a global surgical implant company, today announced MedTech Breakthrough has selected TETRAfuse® 3D Technology as… Read More
Congratulations to BME doctoral students Sarah Long (Gunduz Lab) and Kyle See (Fang Lab) who were awarded an NIH CTSI TL1 Predoctoral Fellowship. The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) TL1 Predoctoral Training Program provides predoctoral trainees with the skills… Read More
Dr. Jon Dobson, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and collaborators’ article, “Nanoscale synchrotron X-ray speciation of iron and calcium compounds in amyloid plaque cores from Alzheimer’s disease subjects” was one of the most impactful and highly cited articles in the… Read More