This February, BME core faculty member Fran Ligler was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. AAAS elevates members to the rank of Fellow for their efforts toward advancing science applications that … Read more

Congratulations to both Dr. Elizabeth Loboa and Dr. Mahsa Mohiti-Asli on their recent NC TraCS Award! Their proposal, entitled “Biocompatible, Biodegradable Controlled Release Smart Bandages for Regenerating Skin and Healing Infected Wounds,” will continue the Cell Mechanics Laboratory’s work investigating … Read more

Carolina KickStart has selected two winners for its Innovation Fellowship program—Dr. Ryan Gessner and Dr. Nicholas Dobes, both of whom have ties to our own Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering! The Innovation Fellowships are designed to enable the winners to … Read more

Congratulations to the Vascular Visionaries, a team of undergraduate students from Dr. Andrew DiMeo’s senior design class, on their NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education! The team was one of five selected for awards in a national … Read more

Congratulations to UNC senior design team members Lydia Hatfield, Mae-Lyn Leonard, Will James, and Brian Castro. Their project, A Fighting Bid, has been selected as one of six finalists in the 2014 National Student Design Competition sponsored by RESNA (Rehabilitation … Read more

Dr. Loboa’s experiences with and research into silver have been featured in an article by Deborah Blum for the NY Times Blog. In the article, “Silver Too Small to See, but Everywhere You Look,” Blum discusses both the benefits of … Read more

Congratulations to Drs. Dayton and Jiang on their recent award from NC State’s Chancellor’s Innovation Fund! The Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, established in 2010, is designed to help innovators translate their ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. The funded project, … Read more

BME core faculty member Fran Ligler has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece in Athens on April 4. The university awarded Dr. Ligler the honorary degree “in recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievements in … Read more

The Newsroom, the news outlet for UNC Health Care and School of Medicine, recently showcased Dr. Andrew Tucker’s doctoral work with mammographic imaging. Dr. Tucker, who defended his dissertation late this February, worked closely with Dr. Otto Zhou to characterize … Read more

Three Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate teams recently took first, second, and third place in the 2014 Student Product Innovation Competition, sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA).  The three teams, all stemming from Dr. Andrew DiMEo’s senior design course … Read more