The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome Dr. Blanka Sharma, who has recently accepted an Assistant Professor position effective this January! Dr. Sharma’s research is focused on elucidating the microenvironmental cues that affect the… Read More
Congratulations to Edmond Olguin who has been selected to participate in the Board of Education (BOE) Summer Fellowship Program! The BOE program is an outstanding opportunity for newly admitted minority and first generation graduate students to become acquainted with UF.… Read More
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kyle D. Allen who was recently named to the Editorial Board in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology! Frontiers is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing open-access publishers. This new journal will provide an open-access… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome Dr. Greg Hudalla, who has recently accepted an Assistant Professor position! Dr. Hudalla’s research is focused on the development of biomedical technologies that can harness the immunomodulatory… Read More
Congratulations to Professor Carlos Rinaldi whose paper and related artwork made the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B! The featured paper titled, “Synthesis, stability, cellular uptake, and blood circulation time of carboxymethyl-inulin coated magnetic nanoparticles” is described briefly… Read More
Thank you to everyone who showed up for our First Annual Lake Wauburg Bash! I was impressed to see so many students and so many of our affiliates (including our Senior VP, Dr. Win Phillips!) who came to have fun,… Read More
The University of Florida’s Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator took top honors worldwide this week when it was named the 2013 Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubation Association. Read the full story.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kyle D. Allen, along with his collaborators Professor Jon Dobson (BME/MSE) and Associate Professor David Arnold (ECE), for recently receiving a UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund on their proposal entitled “Magnetic Nanoparticle/Biomarker Harvesting Technologies for the… Read More
UF BME students in the Medical Physics Program have been recognized for their outstanding research and presentations at two meetings this spring. At the Annual AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting Young Investigator Symposium, twelve students from throughout the world made presentations… Read More
Dr. Mingzhou Ding was recently interviewed by the National Academy of Engineering Radio in relation to the story below on how engineering is critical for unraveling how the brain works. His interview can be heard here: http://www.nae.edu/Projects/20730/20186/72339.aspx. Story originally… Read More