This week BME is hosting its first Coulter Seminar by an artist. Working in the intersection between art, science, and engineering, Gupi Ranganathan holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as well … Read more
BME Postdoctoral fellow Rebecca Krupenevich, working in Prof Jason Franz’s Applied Biomechanics Lab, has received one of five 2021 Awards for Research Excellence at UNC. Dr Krupenevich earned her PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland where she investigated … Read more
BME undergraduate Sarah Hall was named 2021 Leader of the Pack on the field at halftime during the Red and White game on Saturday, October 30, 2021. Sarah is a Goodnight Scholar from Cary, NC in her fourth-year majoring in … Read more
Dr. Albert Banes, BME Faculty Emeritus and Founder and President of Flexcell International Corporation, recently checked in with the Joint Department to update us about his company and share his pride in Flexcell’s role supporting student training and scientific discovery … Read more
Congratulations to the Lab of Dr. William Polacheck, BME Assistant Professor and a member of the McAllister Heart Institute at UNC for the receipt of R35 Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the The National Institutes Of Health (NIH). The … Read more
Save the date on November 10 for a panel discussion with UNC leaders, faculty, Carolina startup experts and media partner WRAL Digital Solutions, who will explore the paths traveled by research-based startups born at UNC-Chapel Hill. You will be the … Read more
Our Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State is proud to honor the following faculty and staff awarded a certificate for years of service in 2020-2021: On NC State campus, 5-year awardees are staff Olivia Catlett and … Read more
A recent publication in Science Advances by BME Postdoc Edikan Ogunnaike reports the improvement of immunotherapy’s effectiveness by pairing a newly developed gel with immunotherapy that was delivered to post-surgical mouse brains with glioblastoma, a highly malignant and deadly cancer. … Read more
BME Dr. Freytes’ REdesign lab reports a new study led by postdoctoral researcher Camilo Mora-Navarro, PhD, titled “Transcriptome-Targeted Analysis of Human Peripheral Blood-Derived Macrophages When Cultured on Biomaterial Meshes.” Published in the journal Biomedical Materials earlier this year, the article … Read more
BME Assistant Professor Brian Diekman and his team have recently been awarded two NIH Grants totaling over $400K for Osteoarthritis Research (OA). On the one hand, the R21 grant provides two years of funding for “high risk / high reward” … Read more
