Category: BME News

UF Health News GAINESVILLE, Fla. — To address the need for new nonaddictive methods to treat pain, a University of Florida team has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to train postdoctoral fellows seeking to become independent clinical pain researchers. Under the NIH HEAL Initiative PAIN Cohort Program, the […]

Christine Schmidt, a UF distinguished professor, was honored Sunday among some of the country’s most notable engineers when she was formally inducted into the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering. The prestigious recognition celebrates her more than 25 years of improving lives through neural tissue engineering and wound healing. The induction ceremony, which was held during the […]

University of Michigan Medical School News The inaugural A. Oveta Fuller Award was recently awarded to Ivana Parker, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). Parker will present a seminar on October 31, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The A. Oveta Fuller Award is a career development award for […]

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. Known as Summer Training in Research and Oncology for the Next Generation of Researchers (STRONGER), the 12-week program launched in May, giving seven inaugural students (current undergraduates and recent graduates) a chance to develop their […]