Congratulations to BME undergraduates Taylor Comte, Kai Shin, Alanna Smith, Allie Pinosky, and Stephen Lee, who have each received a $500 grant from the UNC Honors program to pay for expenses associated with their honors thesis research. BME went 5 … Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu, core faculty in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, had his work on anticancer nanomedicine featured prominently on both NC State University’s home page (http://www.ncsu.edu) and news page (http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/11/cancer-killing-nanodaisies/). The NC State feature by Alastair Hadden focuses … Read more
Dr. Ke Cheng’s work with regenerating lost cardiac cells was featured in the October 19, 2014 Raleigh News & Observer. The article explains how a Dr. Cheng is developing nanoparticles that bind adult stem cells to injured heart tissue in … Read more
Jacqueline Cole, an Assistant Professor in BME, has been featured in Auburn Engineering Magazine’s ongoing column, “It’s My Job.” The “It’s My Job” column features interviews with successful alumni from Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. Dr. Cole is the … Read more
The Collegiate Inventors Competition has selected the finalist for its 2014 Competition, and VoluMetric is one of seven undergraduate teams chosen from across the United States! VoluMetric is an undergraduate design team from the UNC Biomedical Engineering program. Chase Dubois, … Read more
BME’s Information Technology team, Dustin Jones and Eugene Yamamura, received a Fall 2014 UNC IT Excellence Award. Out of 17 team nominations from across the entire UNC Campus, 3 groups were selected from a board of their peers as winners. … Read more
North Carolina State University’s Graduate School awarded three BME graduate students Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grants for Spring 2015. They were Allison Amos, Hayley Dirscherl and Lauren Putvin. The Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant program provides both funding and intensive mentoring to … Read more
Researchers in Dr. Zhen Gu’s lab have developed “nano-cocoons” (see left) that offer targeted drug delivery against cancer cells. This innovative design utilizes DNA that tricks the cancer cell absorbing the cocoon before the cocoon unravels and unleashes anticancer drugs … Read more
Jeffrey Powell has gone above and beyond to assist a local six year old boy, Holden Mora, who was born without fully-formed fingers on his left hand. As an undergraduate in the Biomedical Engineering program at UNC, Jeff has access … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Zigoneanu, a postdoctoral fellow working in Dr. Allbritton’s lab, on her recent Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Across the National Institutes of Health, the success rate for F32 applicants … Read more
