BME graduate student Emily Mihalko has started the year off with a bang: she has been named as a 2018 NC State GAANN Moluecular Biotechnology Fellow! This prestigious fellowship is provided through the Graduate School by the U.S. Department of Education Graduate … Read more
Dr. Caterina Gallippi has been awarded a competitive renewal R01 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue developing ultrasound-based imaging methods for delineating carotid atherosclerotic plaque risk. The project, Transcutaneous ARFI Ultrasound for Differentiating Carotid Plaque … Read more
It is no secret that BME houses world-class researchers. It should come as no surprise, then, that four BME faculty members have been awarded new grants from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at The University of North … Read more
PhD student Andy Brandt always has a smile on her face and a helping hand for those in need. Working under the direction of Dr. Helen Huang in BME’s CLEAR Core, Andy has been able to study how to create … Read more
For Camp Invention (grades K-6), the National Inventor Hall of Fame creates comic-book superhero characters for its “rock stars,” the NIHF inductees. BME’s Dr. Fran Ligler’s character has just been revealed–and will no doubt be used by the camp for many … Read more
New BME faculty member Dr. Wesley Legant has been featured in Nature for his work with DIY microscopes! Not finding a microscope that allowed him to take the readings he needed, Wesley instead decided to develop his own using light-sheet … Read more
Head injuries occur often in a myriad of situations- car crashes, falls, sports- and now BME faculty member Dr. Anne Marion Taylor and her team are one step closer to understanding how to reverse the negative consequences of such events. … Read more
BME graduate student Kristina Rivera took home second place for her work “Controlling Oxygen Levels in Vascularized 3D Gut-on-Chip” at the Bayer CropScience Research Symposium held on Wednesday, September 6th, at Bayer CropScience Division Headquarters in RTP. Poster awards were … Read more
Altis Biosystems, a company co-founded by BME Chair Dr. Nancy Allbritton and BME faculty member Dr. Scott Magness, has received an NC IDEA SEED grant. Altis was chosen from a pool of more than 150 applicants as a result of … Read more
The final quarter of the year has been a busy one for Dr. Zhen Gu. In addition to his ground-breaking research, hectic lecture circuit, and full conference schedule, he has found time to be interviewed by UNC Healthcare for at … Read more
