April 24, 2025
Wonderful job by my trainees today! We had our Spring UG research presentations. Extra congratulations to our graduating students – Samantha Shumard and Izabella Zmirska for receiving their BS degrees in BME, and Dr. Xander Lim (co-advised with Dr. Kevin Otto, now Head of BME at Purdue) for receiving his PhD in BME! We celebrated afterwards at Chuy’s, and celebrated Samantha’s and Izabella’s graduation at the BME Pinning Ceremony.
March 25, 2025
Congratulations to our UF BME PhD student, Allison Campbell, who was selected for the UF T32 Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Program (NMPT), overseen by Drs. Fuller, Vandenborne, and Judge. Allison is researching injectable hydrogel/drug therapies for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).
March 25, 2025
Proud of our Schmidt Lab trainees — Allison Campbell, PhD student, and Ethan McMillan, MS student — discussing their research on developing injectable therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) at UF Biomaterials Day 2025.
Feb. 7, 2025
So proud of our postdoc, Dr. Gopal Agarwal, who gave a fantastic kick-off talk at the North Central Florida (NCF) Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN). He showcased his impactful work on developing injectable therapeutics for spinal cord injury (SCI) treatment.
Feb. 7, 2025
Thank you to the UF McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) for providing funding as part of the MBI Accelerator program for our collaborative research project to develop injectable hydrogels for spinal cord injury (SCI) treatment. Kudos also to our co-PIs, Drs. Dave Fuller and Greg Hudalla! Congratulations team!
Oct 24, 2024
Schmidt Lab UG, Kennedy Moes, did a wonderful job presenting her research at the national Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting in Baltimore, MD.
December 7, 2024
Great to listen to our Schmidt Lab UGs talk about their research. Congrats and thanks to all of them for their hard work this semester. And, thanks to the grad student and postdoc mentors!
May 20, 2024
Allison was selected to participate in an industry internship with Dow Chemical in Michigan, as part of the “2023-2024 Campus Internship – Digital Innovation – Cross-functional (Ph.D)”. She will be working in the Toxicology and Environmental Research and Consulting department. Kudos to Allison!
April 25, 2024
Another great set of Schmidt Lab UG Research presentations! Congratulations to our amazing students who contribute so much to our research endeavors! We sadly bid farewell to Steven Robles-Blasini, as he moves to a new lab for different research exposure.
April 2, 2024
Congratulations to Schmidt Lab UG researchers, Kennedy Moes
and Izabela Zmirska, on being selected as 2024-25 University Scholars. Kennedy researches injectable hydrogels for spinal cord injury, under the mentorship of Dr. Gopal Agarwal, and Izabela works under the mentorship of Allison Campbell investigating development of hydrogel-based inks for biological 3D printing. Congratulations, Kennedy and Izabela!
