Brent Sheerer, UNC Alumnus and President of Ultra-Met Carbide Technologies, has led the way in establishing the Sheerer Family Fund for Undergraduate Research in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. His $25,000 commitment, matched by a gift from Ultra-Met, will … Read more

BME Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Brian Cummins (working with Dr. Frances Ligler) and Dr. Liliana Mellor (working with Dr. Elizabeth Loboa) were selected for a 2014-2015 Professional Development Award from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Graduate School. The award … Read more

This spring, BME core faculty member Fran Ligler was selected to chair a newly formed NRC Panel on Review of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  The Panel will assess the scientific and … Read more

BME core faculty member, Dr. Greg Sawicki, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health R21 Grant. The funded research project is titled “Robotic Ankle to Restore Symmetry and Reduce Energy Cost of Walking Post-Stroke.” Dr. Sawicki will serve as … Read more

Dr. Elizabeth Loboa was recently selected to write a blog post for the NC State series “This Is What Science Looks like at NC State.” The series seeks to put a face on research at NC State by having a … Read more

BME congratulates Dr. Nancy Allbritton, who has been awarded two new R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health. The first grant, titled “Single-Cell Measurement of Lipid Signaling in Colorectal Cancer,” comes from the National Cancer Institute and is funded … Read more

Drs. Liliana Mellor and Mahsa Mohiti-Asli, two Postdoctoral Fellows working in Dr. Elizabeth Loboa’s Cell Mehcanics Laboratory (CML), will give talks during the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs’ Postdoctoral Appreciation Week. On Tuesday, September 16th (beginning at 11:45am) Drs. Mellor and … Read more

Fran Ligler, Lampe Disgintuished Professor in Biomedical Engineering, was recently quoted in an article in Nature Medicine. In the article by Ellie Dolgin, “Better Standards Sought for Range of Stem Cells Entering the Clinic,” Dr. Ligler comments upon the necessity … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Lau on his award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)! Dr. Lau, an NSBRI Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab has received a Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Award from the … Read more

One of the BME Department’s Lucas Scholars, Taylor Comte, has received a $3,000 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from UNC for the summer of 2014, as well as a $4,000 award from the NC Space Grant program to continue her research … Read more