BME professor Dr. Helen Huang, along with collaborators Dustin Crouch, Ming Liu, Gregory Sawicki, and Ding Wang, have published “A Cyber Expert System for Auto-Tuning Powered Prosthesis Impedance Control Parameters” in Annals of Biomedical Engineering. A patient’s powered prosthetic has … Read more
BME graduate student Kent Gordon has been nominated and selected to receive a Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship Candidacy Award from UNC Chapel Hill Graduate School’s Initiative for Minority Excellence. Mr. Gordon has been selected from among nominees in departments across UNC … Read more
A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University has received a $5.3 million, five-year Transformative Research (R01) Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create fully functioning versions of … Read more
The NC TraCS Team Science Resource hosted a workshop entitled “Engineering Solutions to Health Problems,” with the goal of connecting engineers and clinicians to foster research relationships and develop feasible future projects. Attendees submitted need statements for discussion in working … Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu has been selected as a 2015 CMBE Young Innovator by the Biomedical Engineering Society. The Young Innovators are selected from active members of BMES who submit self-nominations. The competition is open to all tenure-track assistant professors … Read more
The Center of BioModular Multi-Scale Systems for Precision Medicine (CBM2), located at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is a collaborative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University and Cornell Medical College. BME faculty member Steve Soper is the Director … Read more
BME faculty member Dr. Zhen Gu has been named in MIT Technology Review’s 2015 list of 35 Innovators Under 35. This list of innovators features inspiring and creative people who are creating important emerging technologies. The selection process involves nominations … Read more
BME faculty member Jason Franz has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) Young Investigator Award. This annual award recognizes the early achievements of an investigator in the field of biomechanics, and was announced … Read more
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a drug delivery technology that consists of an elastic patch that can be applied to the skin and will release drugs whenever the … Read more
BME faculty member Zhen Gu, PhD, will be participating in the fourth year of the Academic Career Leadership Academy in Medicine (ACCLAIM). Participants were selected by a steering committee comprised of the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, the Executive … Read more
