Congratulations to Dr. Cherie Stabler and her collaborators who were recently awarded with an impressive $4.9M NIH UC4 grant. The proposal titled, “Engineering a Human Physiomimetic Islet Microsystem”, seeks to develop an organ-on-a-chip platform for pancreatic beta cells which serve… Read More
The Health Physics Society selected BME graduate student, Michael Hermansen as the recipient of the J. Newell Stannard Fellowship. The award, valued at $5000 will assist Michael in pursuing his graduate studies in Medical Physics. In addition, he is provided… Read More
The 6th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (MBEC 2014) was sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 7-11, 2014. This conference continues the series of well-known European IFMBE Conferences held in… Read More
Professor Bruce Wheeler, President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine in Biology Society (EMBS), reported a successful 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC; Chicago, August 26-30, 2014), with over 2700 attendees, 2800 presentations, 25 workshops and 40… Read More
Originally published by UF College of Medicine Insider, August 26, 2014. “UF developing mixed-reality simulators for training in treatment of injured soldiers” by April Frawley Birdwell On the battlefield, wounded soldiers depend on how quickly and efficiently medical personnel can… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Ayse Gunduz who received an honorable mention for her poster presentation at the Frontiers in Bioengineering Symposium! To continue the series of the Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop (first held at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013), the… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Blanka Sharma who was recently featured on the cover of the September issue of American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Prism magazine! Prism is ASEE’s monthly award winning flagship publication and is the most popular magazine covering… Read More
UF BME will be hosting a booth and reception at the upcoming BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio and we’d love to see you there! A strong, collective presence at this conference is important for UF’s overall visibility and faculty… Read More
Dr. Lin Yang and his team were recently awarded with an impressive NIH R01 grant for the development and dissemination of an advanced Cloud-enabled imaging informatics tool – MuscleMiner. MuscleMiner will provide a complete suite of tools for automated image… Read More
Congratulations to Professor Christine Schmidt for a recent invitation to join the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neural Engineering. Dr. Schmidt joins Dr. Bruce Wheeler, also from the University of Florida, who is one of the inaugural board members for… Read More