Dr. Blanka Sharma, assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award Winner. Sharma’s achievement will allow her to develop biomaterials and… 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
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Zhenhong Hu, for receiving the Outstanding International Student Award by the UF International Center. Hu’s advisor is Dr. Mingzhou Ding and his research interests are in the field of cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on… Read More
Scientific Reports article UF Health News article, by Doug Bennet For UF Health video, please click here. In a hospital’s intensive care unit, doctors get a cascade of data about each patient’s condition that can be challenging to quickly organize… Read More
UF Engineers solve 50+-year-old enzyme dissipation and distortion puzzle, opening the door to enzyme therapy for osteoarthritis, periodontal disease and, potentially, cancer A 50-year-old problem Since the 1960s, scientists have known that employing enzymes as drugs would afford new opportunities… Read More
Dr. Parisa Rashidi, assistant professor, was recently awarded a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Trailblazer R21 Award for assessing pain management in ICU patients. The under-assessment of pain response is one of the primary barriers to the… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding, distinguished professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, who recently received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for 2018-2019. Ding’s mentoring philosophy is to design a research program that takes each… Read More
Congratulations to the following UF BME faculty on being selected to receive a three-year University of Florida Term Professorship. • Dr. Wesley E. Bolch, professor • Dr. Gregory A. Hudalla, assistant professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow • … Read More
Congratulations to Alexis Brake, Jonathan Charles, Fiona Cheung, Maximillian Diaz, Leyda Marrero, Tran Ngo, Yan Carlos Pacheco, Alexia Poulos and Julia Withrow who were recently selected as Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering University Scholars for 2019-2020! The University Scholars Program… Read More
Original article published in Our Town Story and photography by Summer Jarro Four-year-old Christian Vann calls his left hand his “lucky fin.” He was born with the condition Symbrachydactyly, which in Latin loosely means short, stubby fingers. On his left… Read More