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
BME Graduate student Kristina Rivera has been awarded a Mentored Teaching Fellowship (MTF) by NC State’s College of Engineering. In the Fall 2019 semester BME Associate Professor Dr. Scott Magness will serve as her mentor for developing a seminar series for the Lucas Scholarship called “Seminars … Read more
BME Teaching Assistant Professor Devin K. Hubbard was recently featured in the Global Medical Device Podcast, during an interview with Jon Speer, founder and VP of Quality at Greenlight Guru. Dr. Hubbard talks about the BME Joint Department, our Design … Read more
BME’s Lampe Distinguished Professor Frances Ligler and her husband George Ligler, Dean’s Eminent Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering at UNC/ NCSU Joint Department were photographed last May 2nd at the Greatest Celebration of American Innovation held annually in the National … Read more
The National Science Foundation has awarded its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship to 14 NC State students this year. Two of the awardees Charlotte DeVol and Emily Fawcett are pursuing graduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering. NSF Graduate Fellows benefit from an annual stipend of $34,000 … Read more
The Office of Assessment at NC State has recently highlighted what BME’s program has done to become even stronger. Our graduate program in biomedical engineering includes in their outcome that students should “demonstrate that they are able to contribute as … Read more
Ariana Frey, a junior BME student doing research in Dr. Freytes’ lab (REdesign Lab), was recently awarded an Outstanding Poster Presentation at the 28th Annual Spring Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium. Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), the … Read more
NIH has awarded Cell Microsystems, founded byBME Joint Dept Chair Dr. Nancy Allbritton Chair, a total of $1.9 million to automate distinct CRISPR workflows using their CellRaft Technology. Cell Microsystems, Inc. is a company based in the Research Triangle Park, … Read more
BME Professor Roger Narayan is part of the new 2019-2020 cohort of RTI University Scholars. Prof Narayan will be working on a joint research project in collaboration with Dr. Dave Dausch, RTI Director of Engineered Systems, to evaluate microneedle-based decives … Read more
