BME’s first Student Safety Council (SSC) was recently formed to enhance laboratory safety within the department, especially among students. The BME SSC consists of both undergraduate and graduate students whose initial task is to identify potential lab safety issues within… Read More
Twelve students from five different medical physics programs in Florida presented at the Florida Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (FLAAPM) Annual Conference this spring. Congratulations to the UF BME students who took first, second and third… Read More
We are excited to share with you the second issue of CrossLink, the news magazine highlighting the innovative research, educational and commercialization activities for the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. If you… Read More
Originally published by the Gainesville Sun A team of UF Health researchers has received a $2.5 million federal grant to conduct a five-year study tracking information on postsurgical pain in hundreds of patients. Dr. Patrick Tighe, an assistant professor of… Read More
Originally published by Optics.org AFPII photoacoustic platform shows promise in clinical trial Image: Winning the fight: PAT monitors a shrinking tumor The migration of photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology from bench top to bedside, long expected thanks to its potential as… Read More
According to statistics recently released by the Association of University Technology Managers as part of its annual licensing survey, the 16 startups launched in 2013 put UF sixth in the nation, ranked among such institutions as the University of California… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding who has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature. Scientific Reports launched in 2011 as a multidisciplinary, online-only, open access… Read More
Originally published by UF News A team of University of Florida students representing the United States took a second-place prize in an international technology competition for its development of a smart mouth guard that dentists can use to diagnose and… Read More
Congratulations to BME affiliate Dr. David Vaillancourt and team who received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to train future movement disorders scientists. The Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration… Read More
Congratulations to BME PhD candidate, Jonathan Shute, who was awarded an NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke T32 Predoctoral Fellowship on Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration! Jonathan studies the underlying neurophysiology of Tourette Syndrome and is… Read More