BME News

Rashidi receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Parisa Rashidi, an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Engineering, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winner. Rashidi’s achievement will allow her to advance her exploration… Read More

Gunduz to present at the AAAS Annual Meeting

Assistant professor, Dr. Aysegul Gunduz will present “New Technologies Emerging from the BRAIN Initiative” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting on February 17, 2018, in Austin. TX. This meeting has been called the “largest… Read More

BME alumnus to speak at UF Biomaterials Day 2018

The UF student chapter of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) will be hosting its seventh annual Biomaterials Day on February 23, 2018, at the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. The theme this year is “Breaking Barriers in Biomaterials Research” to reflect… Read More

BME student receives BHI and BSN travel award

Anis Davoudi, a Ph.D. student in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and the Body Sensor Networks (BSN) Student Travel Award for… Read More

Celebrating 15 years as a department

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 15th anniversary as a department. Established as a formal department in 2002, BME has been a national leader in interdisciplinary research, both basic and translational, from neural engineering… Read More

Congratulations to our fall 2017 M.S. and Ph.D. graduates

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates the following M.S. and Ph.D. graduates who obtained their degrees in Fall 2017. These are:Evelyn Bracho-Sanchez, Ph.D.Dissertation title: Targeted Extracellular Delivery of Indolemaine 2,3 Dioxygenase Via Fusion with Galectin… Read More