The UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering is thrilled to announce that its recently-launched UNC/NC State joint undergraduate degree, Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering (B.S.), has officially received accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. The Joint … Read more
The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University is a rapidly growing enterprise which is one of the fastest growing areas of study, research, and employment in the … Read more
BME Faculty Jason Franz, in collaboration with UNC Healthcare and researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded an exciting new Research Grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society. The project will leverage the BME Applied … Read more
Two BME undergraduate students received NC State Undergraduate Research Grants for the 2017-2018 school year. Vibhavari Vempala, a senior in Dr. Helen Huang’s CLEAR lab, received the grant to continue her work on above-knee amputee trip recovery. Tripping is the number one cause … Read more
BME Faculty member Dr. Jacque Cole is the 2017 recipient of the Junior Faculty Research Grant from the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB)! This grant is intended to be used to help generate pilot data and support early-career investigators. Dr. Cole’s proposed … Read more
The Controlled Release Society (CRS) has chosen Dr. Zhen Gu as the recipient of this year’s Young Investigator Award. This award recognizes a CRS member who has made outstanding contributions in the science of controlled release, and is 40 years of age … Read more
BME graduate student Gabriela Torres won first place in the Student Paper Competition during July’s IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Symposium (EMBS) held in JeJu, Korea! The conference theme, “Smarter Technology for a Healthier World,” was designed to … Read more
We are excited to announce the transformation of the former REC into the Closed-Loop Engineering for Advanced Rehabilitation (CLEAR) core. Administratively housed in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at NC State University and UNC – Chapel Hill, the core’s … Read more
Chris Giardina, a BME MD/PhD candidate, has been awarded his first ever US patent for technology relating to cataract surgery. “I’m really proud to be a part of this department,” Chris said when asked about his achievement. “I consider both [Dr. Nancy … Read more
tHINK, the NC State Graduate School magazine, is a biannual publication that features stories about Wolfpack students who are the best and brightest of their generation. It comes as no surprise, then, that BME PhD student Andrea (Andy) Brandt was profiled in … Read more
