BME Dayton lab students Thomas Kierski and Izzie Newsome have recently won second and fourth place in Visualizing Physical Acoustics Research Picture Awards at the 2019 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland. Their high-resolution 3D microvascular images showed kidney and … Read more

This October 2019, leading industry publication The Analytical Scientist announced its annual Power List. Two BME Distinguished Professors have been included in this top 100 analytical scientists’ list: Frances Ligler, BME Lampe Distinguished Professor, and Nancy Allbritton, Kenan Distinguished Professor, … Read more

Last Week the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NCSU participated at The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, which took place from October 16 to 19, 2019 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. BMES Annual Meeting … Read more

After a decade leading the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Kenan Distinguished Professor Nancy Allbritton is stepping down as Chair of BME at the end of … Read more

BME Assistant Professor Wesley Legant is one of 22 early-career scientists and engineers who will each receive $875,000 over five years from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious Packard Fellowship will enable Dr Legant to enhance his research … Read more

This week BME Assistant Professor Wesley Legant was selected as one of the 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipients. Dr. Legant will receive $2.2 million to support innovative biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health announced 93 awards totaling approximately … Read more

On September 19, BME Associate Professor Scott Magness met with Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, and Representative David Price, as well as other Congressional leaders from around the nation, as part of the Rally for Medical Research on Capitol Hill. … Read more

Last Friday Sept 27 BME faculty, staff and students reconnected at the BME Annual Retreat in North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Keynote speaker Prof. David Reinkensmeyer from the School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, kicked off the retreat … Read more

Rahima Benhabbour, assistant professor in the UNC/NC State Joint BME Department and an adjunct professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is doing breakthrough research. Benhabbour is first author of a new study recently published in Nature Communications reporting … Read more

BME recent alumni Morgan Goetz won a national championship in UNC field hockey last November and graduated in May with a GPA that was one of the five highest among female student-athletes at Carolina. Although being a scholar-athlete and excelling … Read more