Category: BME News

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, and Dr. Mingzhou Ding, distinguished professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, for their NSF Information Integration & Informatics award entitled, “III: Small: Modeling Multi-Level Connectivity of Brain Dynamics.” Fang and Ding’s proposal focuses on a three-year research program to characterize and develop a multi-level connectivity model for […]

Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, affects more than 30 million Americans. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “OA is caused by a breakdown of cartilage (the tissue that covers the ends of bones where they form a joint). Healthy cartilage allows bones to glide over one another, and it absorbs […]

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A team of biomedical engineering students are competing for the 2019 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s topic is Digital Imaging. BME team members include Altaful Amin, Justina Chan, Alexander Dluzneski, Youssef Elbanna, Marye Lee, Brian Nazareth, Henry Nguyen and Giancarlo Tejeda. The team is being mentored by BME affiliate faculty, Dr. […]

Congratulations to Ryan J. Downey, postdoctoral associate, for being selected to receive the NIH Loan Repayment Program Award. Downey was funded through his project titled, Mobile Brain Imaging Assessment of Declining Mobility with Aging. This project aims to identify neural correlates of walking in older adults that lead to mobility decline. Downey will examine brain […]

The Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET has accredited the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering’s undergraduate program, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET accreditation assures that programs meet standards to produce graduates ready to enter critical technical fields that are […]

Thank you to everyone who attended the Fall Welcome Event this August! We had a successful event as there were great networking opportunities for the entire BME family (students, staff, faculty, affiliates, collaborators and supporters). Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair, reviewed the successes from the past year […]

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 diabetes and potential treatments for the condition. The scientists aim to develop a device known […]

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, University of Florida, 2019 Dr. Eric Fuller joins the department as a lecturer starting this […]

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 “boot camp” workshop prepares participants for a successful Ph.D. graduate school experience, and offers information […]