Join us for the 6th Annual Pruitt Research Day as the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering celebrates its 15th year as a department! The goals of Pruitt Research Day are to recognize the research efforts of our… Read More
Three UF BME Ph.D. students were named Outstanding International Students by the UF International Center. Enrico Opri’s advisor is Dr. Aysegul Gunduz and his research interests are within the fields of neural engineering and machine learning. His work involves the… Read More
Congratulations to UF BME Ph.D. student, Yao Xiao, who was awarded two prestigious travel awards! IEEE/ACM Travel Award The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Connected Health Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) honored Xiao… Read More
UF BME Ph.D. student, Jackson Cagle, was awarded the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Trainee Professional Development Award. SfN is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. The SfN annual meeting is… Read More
From L to R: Stephen H. Arce, Jorge Figueras, Mingzhou Ding, Evelyn Bracho-Sanchez, Brandi K. Ormerod, Isaac Adjei, Eric Fuller and Curtis Bryant Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners… Read More
For assistant professor Chelsea Magin, coming up with her first teaching assignment was easy. The class was Engineering General Chemistry, an introductory course, which provides a rigor and depth needed to prepare students for advanced coursework in various engineering specialties.… Read More
UF BME Ph.D. student, Shruti Siva Kumar, was selected to receive a 2017 BMES Career Development Travel Award. The award covers registration and a travel allowance for the BMES annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Those eligible for the Travel Awards… Read More
Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky (PI), professor, and Dr. Gregory Hudalla, assistant professor, along with collaborators, Shannon Wallet and Mark Wallet were recently awarded a $2.1 million NIH grant entitled “Tissue-Targeted Enzyme for Localized Tryptophan Catabolism to Direct Subcutaneous.” Periodontal disease refers… Read More
Dr. Gregory A. Hudalla, assistant professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, and collaborators were recently awarded a $1 million NSF RAISE grant entitled, “RAISE: Design of co-assembling peptides as recombinant protein fusion tags for integrating enzymes into supramolecular… Read More
UF BME students, Olivia Lanier and Rachna Sannegowda, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship to attend the 16th NSF International Summer School (2017) on Bio-X: Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation. The 2017 summer school was held in the Mediterranean city… Read More