BME faculty Jason Franz and collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Virginia have been awarded a five-year NIH R01 award to study the role of age-related changes in tendon on motor performance. Dr. Franz’ lab will … Read more

BME faculty member Dr. Richard Goldberg has recently been awarded a UNC Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) Presentation Award. This award is predicated on the growing number of faculty members interested in sharing the results of their work in the … Read more

NC State News recently published an article about BME senior Will Pfitzner, praising his work as a Shelton Scholar. The article, Shelton Scholar Reflects on Impact of Private Support, expounds on Will’s great community work as well as his entrepreneurial pursuits–he … Read more

One of BME’s own faculty, Dr. Paul Dayton, took home the 2016 Biomedical Wellness Pioneer Award from this year’s Meeting of the Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE) conference titled “Sensing and Analysis Technologies for Biomedical and Cognitive Applications.” The award … Read more

Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that three of our undergraduates have been selected as “Top Presenters” at this year’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at NC State University. Out of four hundred and thirty-two student presentations, only 23 were awarded this … Read more

BME Faculty Jason Franz has been awarded a grant from UNC’s University Research Council (URC) for his project titled “The role of propulsive capacity reserves in age-related mobility impairment.” The goal of the two year project is to gain mechanistic … Read more

BME would like to congratulate our 2016 Joint Department Award Winners, who will be recognized at the Joint BME Symposium on April 26th. Although all of our faculty and staff do great work, this year’s winners have contributed well above and … Read more

University of North Carolina’s Graduate School recently awarded Kent Gordon, a BME graduate student, a 2016-2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship program is designed to support doctoral students in the final year of their dissertation by enabling awardees to focus … Read more

Faculty and students from BME recently participated in a new science outreach event at NC State and UNC as part of the first ever National Biomechanics Day. With support from the Rehabilitation Engineering Core and the College of Engineering, Jacque … Read more

BME faculty member Dr. Anne Taylor, based at UNC-Chapel Hill, has recently been awarded a major National Institute of Health (NIH) Small Business Technology Transfer grant for the second phase of a research collaboration with neuroscience company Xona Microfluidics. The … Read more