On April 20, 2017, Department Head Dr. Nancy Allbritton will be honored as the 2017 Inventor of the Year at the Celebration of Inventorship at UNC Chapel Hill. Her academic research has resulted in technological advancements that address a multitude … Read more
BME Graduate Student Jicheng Yu has been selected as a recipient of the inaugural Horizon Award given by the UNC Graduate School. The award recognizes outstanding graduate student research that holds extremely high potential for making a significant contribution to … Read more
Dr. Naji Husseini has been chosen as one of three recipients of the 2016-2017 NC State Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology. Naji, a lecturer in BME since 2015, was nominated by the Department … Read more
BME personnel are no strangers to being published in various news outlets, something that Dr. Brian Cummins, former BME postdoctoral researcher, can attest to. He, along with all-star team Drs. Fran Ligler and Glenn Walker and undergraduates Rukesh Chinthapatla and … Read more
The Divers Alert Network (DAN) has selected BME postdoctoral researcher Dr. Virginie Papadopoulou as the 2017 recipient of the R.W. Bill Hamilton Memorial Dive Medicine Research Grant. The program was begun in honor of Dr. Bill Hamilton, a world-renowned physiologist, … Read more
News from BME’s Senior Design studio continues to impress. Christopher Lynch, Erica Lenzen, Gabrielle Hochu, Hannah Kausche, and Wyatt Robinson have been selected as finalists for the 2017 Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition. The mission of this program is … Read more
SonoVol, a company run by UNC-NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. graduate Ryan Gessner, was awarded a $1.8 million SBIR grant titled “Development of a mobile and automated platform for multiplexed multi-modality imaging” from the National Institutes of Health. … Read more
Adriano Bellotti, former NC State-based BME undergraduate and current UNC graduate student, has been named as a 2017 Gates Cambridge Scholar. This prestigious program provides full support to the top non-UK students who wish to undertake graduate study at the … Read more
H3 Global, a team of BME undergraduates, has been selected to attend and compete in the Seventh Annual Undergraduate Global Health Design Competition. Hosted by Rice University, this event will feature student-developed technologies that address the pressing global health challenges … Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu is brilliant, kind, and personable, and is arguably one of the most innovative biomedical scientists in the nation today. The Triangle Business Journal, a local publication with a large presence, has taken notice of this and has … Read more
