Dear BME Graduate Students and Faculty, I am most pleased to announce that, with the start of our Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program in the Fall of 2012, Profs. Van Oostrom and Hintenlang are stepping up to handle new and expanded… Read More

BME undergraduate advising is getting started.  Please check out our undergraduate web page http://undergraduate.bme.ufl.edu for up-to-date information about the BME BS degree program.  Please review all the information there before contacting an advisor.

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is exceptionally pleased to welcome Dr. Christine Schmidt as the incoming Chair of the Department. Florida’s success in attracting such an outstanding Chair is due to the vision, commitment, and dogged… Read More

Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Christine Schmidt has accepted an offer to become the Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Schmidt will fill the position currently held by Interim… Read More

Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in collaboration with UF Diabetes Center of Excellence (http://diabetes.ufl.edu/) investigator Michael Clare-Salzler, MD, this 5-year, $1.55M grant (1R01DK091658-01A1) will fund the investigation of biodegradable microparticle formulations delivering immuno-modulatory… Read More

The Medical Physics and BME students got together to Relay for Life in the fight against Cancer on the weekend of April 14th and 15th. Led by team captain, Matt Hoerner, more than 20 students raised money for the American… Read More

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering regrets the passing of Dr. William G. “Bill” Luttge, the founding executive director of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida. In addition to his many contributions to the… Read More

In collaboration with Dr. Stephen Grobmyer, MD of the department of Surgery at the College of Medicine and Dr. Huikai Xie, PhD of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in this project Dr. Huabei Jiang and his students will… Read More

The BME Ballers season came to an end in the Quarterfinals of the playoffs, dropping a hard fought game 0-5 to the Kameltonians. The Ballers finish the 2012 outdoor season with a final record of 2-4-0. Two goals in the… Read More

Biomedical Engineering graduate students Ray Kozikowski and Jennifer Lee (both pictured), together with Mechanical Engineering student Sara Smith have won the prestigious prize from the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology. The $10,000 prize will allow them to… Read More