BME News

BME Ph.D. candidate receives UF International Award

The University of Florida’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering congratulates Chaoyue Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in the Smart Medical Informatics Learning & Evaluation (SMILE) Lab, on receiving the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the UF International Center.… Read More

Schmidt Appointed to National Advisory Council for NIBIB of the NIH

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Christine Schmidt has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of… Read More

Celebrating Excellence in Biomedical Engineering

University of Florida Distinguished Professor Christine Schmidt has been recognized with three major honors: election to the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering, along with the 2024 BMES Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering. These… Read More

NIH Innovator Awards

Three junior faculty members from UF’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering have earned prestigious NIH High-Risk, High-Reward awards for their groundbreaking research. These awards, which support innovative approaches in health and disease, will enable each researcher to… Read More

UF researchers to study pain, with help from horses

By Dorothy Hagmajer GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A horse, a scientist, an engineer, and a physiologist walk into a doctor’s office. At first, it sounds like the setup of a good joke. But the four co-investigators spearheading a National Institutes of… Read More

UF Biomedical Engineering announces partnership with LifeLink Tissue Bank to foster healthcare innovation

The University of Florida’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is excited to announce a collaboration with LifeLink Tissue Bank, a division of LifeLink Foundation, a globally recognized nonprofit organization. LifeLink Foundation honors donors and saves lives through organ and tissue donation,… Read More

2024 Departmental Excellence Awards Announced

Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the department’s annual Holiday Party! Congratulations to the following… Read More

UF Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Skylar Stolte Receives CAM Dissertation Award

Skylar E. Stolte, a doctoral candidate in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the UF Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM) Clinical Translational Research Dissertation Award. This prestigious… Read More

BME Ph.D. candidate receives UF International Award

The University of Florida’s J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering congratulates Seowung Leem, a Ph.D. candidate in the Smart Medical Informatics Learning & Evaluation (SMILE) Lab, on receiving the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the UF International Center.… Read More

Dr. Christine Schmidt Elected to Board of Directors of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Schmidt, Distinguished Professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, on her election to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine… Read More