Congratulations to BME’s five outstanding students who were just awarded with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! These fellowships recognize and support exceptional graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s… Read More

On April 8, the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at UF hosted Undergraduate Research Day. Undergraduate Research Day is designed to showcase the quality of student research projects conducted during the academic year, as well as to… Read More

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, received the 2019 Graduate Education Diversity Champion Award from the UF Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives and Multicultural Association of Graduate Students. The University of Florida Office of… Read More

Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor & associate chair for graduate studies, has been elected to the Society for Biomaterials governing council as Member-at-Large. The Society for Biomaterials is a multidisciplinary society of academic, healthcare, governmental and business professionals dedicated to promoting… Read More

Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Olivia Lanier, who was awarded the UF Association for Academic Women NSF Emerging STEM Scholar Award. The award honors honor a Ph.D. candidate who is both an outstanding researcher in STEM fields and who has contributed to… Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, whose research titled, STIR-Net: Spatial-Temporal Image Restoration Net for CTPerfusion Radiation Reduction, was recently published in Frontiers in Neurology, section Stroke. Fang and UF BME researchers, Yao Xiao, Ph.D. student; Peng Liu, Ph.D.… Read More

Dr. Jennifer A. Nichols, assistant professor, has been selected to receive support through the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) KL2 Multidisciplinary Scholars Program.  Nichols’ KL2 research project seeks to identify the biomechanical, neuromuscular, and somatosensory mechanisms that contribute… Read More

Congratulations to Robert Eisinger, an M.D.-Ph.D. student pursuing his doctoral work in Dr. Aysegul Gunduz’ lab, who received an NIH F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award Predoctoral Dual-Degree Fellowship. The purpose of the F30 program is to enhance the… Read More

Congratulations to BME Ph.D. candidate, Shaheen Farhadi, who received a Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award from the Society for Biomaterials for his abstract titled, “Locally Anchoring Proteins to Target Tissues via Fusion to Galectin-3.” Farhadi, under the guidance of… Read More