RTP medical company SonoVascular is one step closer to improving treatment for those with venous thromboembolism after securing capital and resources from the Wolfpack Investor Network. This article was originally posted on July 5th, 2023, by Margaret Huffman at NC State … Read more
Varun Nalam, Post-doc, Brendan Driscoll, Ph.D. student, and He (Helen) Huang, Ph.D., Jackson Family Distinguished Professor of the Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL)’s, were invited to give an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) tech demo at the … Read more
BME’s NC State CLEAR Coordinator Laura Rohrbaugh and Laboratory Manager Jennifer Sollinger are Biomedical Engineering’s selections for the 2023 Awards for Excellence. They were recognized, respectively, as BME’s SHRA and EHRA Awards for Excellence selections at a College of Engineering … Read more
A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA. The chemical is also found in trace amounts in the sweetener itself, and the finding raises questions about how … Read more
Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a new strategy to improve drug delivery into chronic wound infections. This article was originally published on … Read more
This spring, UNC’s Academic Advising Program solicited student input to nominate advisors and staff serving in an advising capacity for campus awards. The nomination committee selected Naji Husseini, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Joint Department … Read more
The i4 Program is a novel initiative within the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering that melds traditional undergraduate engineering education with biomedical entrepreneurship. Composed of four phases of need Identification, Ideation, Innovation and Implementation, this design program culminates in an annual competition awarding a financial prize … Read more
Third-year BME Ph.D. student, Aubrey Gray, has received one of only four highly competitive 2023 Grant-in-Aid Research awards from the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB). The award will support her research project titled “Foot stiffness as a potentially modifiable factor to improve … Read more
Michaela Copp, who is a soon-to-be biomedical engineering graduate with a Ph.D. from NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, knew back during her undergraduate years at Vanderbilt University that she wanted to continue doing … Read more
The NC State Michael Dickey Outstanding Research Mentor Award is an annual award given to a faculty member at North Carolina State University who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring and supporting undergraduate and graduate student researchers. The award is … Read more
