Category: BME News

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 […]

Equipped with a cutting-edge nanoparticle imaging technology, federal funds and a quest to quash pain, researchers at the University of Florida are working to revolutionize osteoarthritis treatments. Central to the research is the Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) technology, a scanner with unparalleled precision in tracking nanoparticles in the body. With intravenously administered nanoparticles, the team […]

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering News Armed with a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, University of Florida biomedical professor Ivana Parker, Ph.D., is targeting one of the most common – and dangerous – infections in women. The prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for High Risk, High Reward provides a five-year grant […]

The University of Akron News There are few things we encounter in our daily lives that have not been touched in some way by engineers. From bridges to clean water to mobile phones, we rely on engineers to create, design and build most of the materials we need to function. We depend on engineers for […]

Dr. Ruogu Fang, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, and Ph.D. student Skylar Stolte have been awarded the UF Pioneering Research HiPerGator Award for their innovative use of AI in high-fidelity whole-head segmentation of MRIs, aiming to prevent dementia. Fang and Stolte are advancing the field of preventive dementia care using artificial […]

Dr. Jamal Lewis, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his graduate student, Clinton Smith, have been honored with UF Tech Licensing’s 2024 Invention of the Year award for their pioneering drug delivery platform for brain disorder treatment. Selected by one of UF Innovate’s six licensing teams, the technology stood out among 372 new ideas disclosed […]