Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, BME professor and Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering associate dean for academic affairs, who was recently appointed to serve a 4-year term on the Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee (MIDAC) of the Food and Drug… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Sanchez, Director of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office and graduate of the UF BME program, who was selected by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering as a 2017 Outstanding Young Alumni (OYA) of the University of Florida.… Read More
Congratulations to UF BME student, Evelyn Bracho-Sanchez, who was featured on CGTN America as a Hispanic woman in science. Evelyn is a Ph.D. candidate currently under the mentorship of Dr. Keselowsky, her focus has been the engineering of a cell… Read More
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces an award of nearly 300 million in a new public-private Manufacturing USA Institute to Advance Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) from leading manufacturers, universities, non-profit organizations and the federal government to develop scalable manufacturing processes… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Cherie Stabler, UF BME associate professor and associate chair for graduate studies, and her Ph.D. and M.S. students Kaiyuan Jiang , Jessica Weaver, Jiapu Liang, Xiongjian Chen, and Yanjunyi Li, on their recent paper, ‘Local Release of… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Cherie Stabler, UF BME associate professor and associate chair for graduate studies, Kerim M. Gattás-Asfura, UF BME research assistant scientist, and Jaime Giraldo, a Ph.D. student from Dr. Stabler’s laboratory, on their recent paper, ‘Synergistic Effect of… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin G. Keselowsky, associate professor & UFRF Professorship in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, who co-authored the lead article, “Special Issue on Biomaterials for Immunoengineering,” and served as the Guest Editor for a… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin J. Otto, UF BME associate professor, on his NIH award in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Harvard Medical School, titled Micro-coil implants for cortical activation. Otto is the Principal Investigator… Read More
Dr. Jon Dobson, UF BME professor, has been selected for the International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award. The Distinguished Scientist Award recognizes an established scientist who has made significant contribution to the field of nanomedicine. Dobson will receive this… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Wachs, a former postdoctoral associate with Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, who has joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an assistant professor in biological systems engineering. Wachs earned her Ph.D. in… Read More