Category: BME News

Join us in congratulating BME affiliate faculty, Dr. James Liao, Professor of Biology at the Whitney Laboratory, for being honored with the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics! This prestigious award, presented at MIT’s 34th Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, celebrates research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think. Dr. Liao earned the […]

Thank You for Making Pruitt Graduate Research and Alumni Engagement Day a Success! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in our Pruitt Graduate Research and Alumni Engagement Day! The event was a resounding success, featuring student talks, an inspiring keynote speaker, engaging poster presentations, and valuable alumni discussions—all celebrating the outstanding research in […]

We are pleased to announce that Ph.D. student Adriana Del Pino Herrera, as first author, and Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks have recently published their article, “A War on Many Fronts: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for Novel Cancer Treatment Strategies,” in Frontiers in Genetics, section Computational Genomics. Cancer, a disease marked by uncontrolled cellular growth, often relies on interactions […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that David Johnson, Ph.D. student in the department, has been awarded the prestigious McKnight Dissertation Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund. The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program aims to address the underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic faculty in Florida’s colleges and universities […]

Skylar Stolte, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Fang’s SMILE Lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) for her project “Mechanism, connectivity, and outcome prediction of anxiety intervention from MRI-derived models in tDCS augmented cognitive training”. The prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, […]

Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, alongside alumna Kathleen Trang (first author) and Ph.D. student Adriana Del Pino Herrera, has achieved a significant milestone for the University of Florida’s BEAT Cancer Lab. Their newly published paper, “Development of an Automated Machine Learning-Driven Assay for Robust and Accessible Analysis of Cell Migration,” is featured in GEN Biotechnology. This research […]

UF Health News A new immersive summer internship at UF Health Cancer Center is helping science students from across the country explore cancer research. The STRONGER program invited UF graduate students to lead the summer research projects and mentor the interns, while they benefited from the expertise of accomplished UF faculty researchers. Known as Summer Training in Research and […]

By Dave Schlenker One of the most data-dense biospecimen repositories in the world is currently being developed at the University of Florida, which could transform the way chronic pain is studied and treated. UF scientists are asking the question: Why do people experience pain differently? The answer may be found in a surprising place: valuable […]

Kuang Gong, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). This grant will support his research project, “Deep Learning Methods for Improving Gallium 68-Based PET Imaging.” Gong will lead this project […]

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