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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 […]

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 […]