Category: BME News

Three junior faculty members from UF’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering have earned prestigious NIH High-Risk, High-Reward awards for their groundbreaking research. These awards, which support innovative approaches in health and disease, will enable each researcher to make significant strides in their respective fields.   With an NIH Pioneer award, UF researcher […]

By Dorothy Hagmajer GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A horse, a scientist, an engineer, and a physiologist walk into a doctor’s office. At first, it sounds like the setup of a good joke. But the four co-investigators spearheading a National Institutes of Health grant to the tune of $5.4 million each bring a unique position of expertise […]

The University of Florida’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is excited to announce a collaboration with LifeLink Tissue Bank, a division of LifeLink Foundation, a globally recognized nonprofit organization. LifeLink Foundation honors donors and saves lives through organ and tissue donation, facilitating lifesaving and life-enhancing transplants. This partnership is part of UF BME’s Industry Partners Program, […]

Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the department’s annual Holiday Party! Congratulations to the following outstanding BME faculty, staff and students! UF BME Faculty Research Excellence Award: Dr. Daniel Ferris […]

Skylar E. Stolte, a doctoral candidate in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the UF Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM) Clinical Translational Research Dissertation Award. This prestigious recognition provides financial support to graduate students completing dissertations in cognitive aging research. Stolte is […]

The University of Florida’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering congratulates Seowung Leem, a Ph.D. candidate in the Smart Medical Informatics Learning & Evaluation (SMILE) Lab, on receiving the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the UF International Center. This honor, part of the 2024 International Student Achievement Awards, celebrates exceptional international students who […]

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Schmidt, Distinguished Professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, on her election to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). The Board of Directors of ASEMFL consists of ten members of the […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ivana Parker, assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, for her groundbreaking research on the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which has been accepted for publication in the prestigious journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. The manuscript, Multi-Level Proteomics Reveals Epigenetic Signatures in BCG-mediated Macrophage Activation (MCPRO-D-24-00160R2), explores the […]

A team of biomedical engineering students from the University of Florida earned national recognition as finalists in the prestigious 2024 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s competition focused on innovative solutions in four categories: mechanical/electrical, electrical/computer science, chemical/biological, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applied to sports injury treatments. The UF team, Team […]

Ana Maria Porras, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to advance her research into how the human microbiome interacts with and influences tissue health. This prestigious R35 award, totaling $1.8 million provides […]