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Congratulations, UF BME Class of 2024! “Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to the Graduating Class of 2024. Your achievements fill us with pride! Here’s to your bright futures ahead, and remember, our doors are always open. Keep in touch!” Dr. Cherie Stabler           Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering  Graduation Celebration UF […]

The Washington Post By Elizabeth Anne Brown Forget the soul — it turns out the eyes may be the best window to the brain. Changes to the retina may foreshadow Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and researchers say a picture of your eye could assess your future risk of neurodegenerative disease. Pinched off from the brain […]

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hudalla, associate professor, for his article, “Charge guides pathway selection in β-sheet fibrillizing peptide co-assembly” which has published in the prestigious Nature journal Communications Chemistry. Communications Chemistry Paper Behind The Paper The assembly of peptides into elongated fibrillar structures is widely used to create biomaterials for medical and biotechnology applications. Co-assembly […]

Alexis Brake Lab: Neuroprostheses Research Lab PI: Dr. Kevin Otto Hometown: Tampa, Fl Research focus: Broadly, I am interested in neuroinflammation. In the NPR Lab, my research has focused on the foreign body response to neural implants. Nearly 2.5 million Americans face life-altering limb loss, paralysis, and/or sensory impairment, which has created a $9.5 billion […]

Education: B.S. Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Marquette University; M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida; Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Hometown: Franklin, WI What is your favorite UF BME Memory: The day I realized that my lab group didn’t need me anymore and I could finish writing and graduate.  This was mainly due to the amazing and […]

Education: BS with Highest Honors, Engineering Science (Biomechanics minor), University of Florida, 2001 MS Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics concentration, University of Florida, 2001 MS Engineering Management, Florida International University, 2004 Hometown: My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around quite a bit. I was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but went to high school […]