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BME Kenan Distinguished Professor and Interim Chair Paul Dayton is among the newly elevated 2022 IEEE Fellows for his contributions to contrast agents and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in medical diagn… Read more
Last Friday’s UNC Chancellor’s leadership message “From big ideas to bold solutions” encouraged students not just to learn but to create and to view the world with an entrepreneurial mindset: “to get… Read more
Wolf Den is a Shark Tank-inspired pitch competition where student teams have the opportunity to pitch their ventures in front of a live audience and judges. This year, the competition was tough with 1… Read more
BME NC State-based faculty Ashley Brown and Donald Freytes are now Tenure Associate Professors, and Naji Husseini has been promoted to Teaching Associate Professor. At BME UNC-Chapel Hill, Xiaogang Hu… Read more
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 M… 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… 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 f… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more