BME fourth year PhD Student Izzie Newsome has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Cancer Institute. This award will fund the project, “Toward Clinical Translation of Acoustic Angiography: Optimization of Microvascular … Read more
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has recently announced the 2019 cohort of Gilliam fellows and adviser pairs: BME PhD Student Kristina Rivera is among this year’s 44 fellows, together with BME advisors Associate Professor Scott Magness and Assistant Professor Michael … Read more
Dr. Frances Ligler, BME Lampe Distinguished Professor and a pioneer in biosensors and microfluidics, is a superhero. In 2017 when she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, she was also invited to participate in Camp Invention: a … Read more
This year, six promising projects will receive support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF), helping researchers turn their discoveries into market-ready solutions. One such projects is “a promising new tool in the fight against cancer,” which BME Assistant Professor Mike Sano … Read more
This week the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost announced that BME Professor Paul Dayton is receiving a W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor appointment. Professor Dayton, a biomedical ultrasound engineer, is also Associate Chair at the UNC/ NCSU … Read more
BME Assistant Professor Jason Franz and his research group at the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory recently published “Time-dependent tuning of balance control and aftereffects following optical flow perturbation training in older adults” in The Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, the first … Read more
This month the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announced the 2019 Creativity Hubs Awards to accelerate solutions to societal challenges. This year the OVCR was able to award three teams with two years of funding worth … Read more
BME Graduate student Billy Clark has been awarded an NIH National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute on Aging. Billy, a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Biomechanics Lab of study sponsor Dr. Jason Franz, will study “The role … Read more
The Forging Interdisciplinary Bio-inspired Engineered Regenerative Science (FIBERS) team of researchers at NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found a potentially transformative opportunity: to apply 3D printing and non-woven fiber manufacturing in order … Read more
The School of Medicine’s Translational Team Science (TTS) Award, administered in partnership with NC TraCS, has recently announced funding for four projects led or co-led by BME faculty. Among the NC TraCS $5K-$50K Translational Research Matched Pilot Grantees are BME … Read more
