As an NC State College of Engineering student, Margaret (Meg) Stokes Alden ‘02 knew she wanted to do something that would help people — but it took her a while to decide if she’d be able to make a greater impact … Read more

William Polacheck, associate professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, has received the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator’s Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), which is a leading professional society for … Read more

Researchers have established a suite of parameters that can be determined using ultrasound to quantitatively measure different physical characteristics of the lung. The researchers also demonstrated that the parameters can be used to accurately diagnose and assess the severity of … Read more

Virginie, who also goes by Virginia, Papadopoulou, PhD, is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. She attended Imperial College London for her Master of Science in Physics and Theoretical Physics and then her PhD in … Read more

Researchers in the Benhabbour Laboratory and their collaborators were nominated and selected for the Charles C. Shepard Science Award for 2024. Their research, published in 2023 in Nature Communications, was titled “Ultra-Long Acting in-situ forming implants with Cabotegravir protect female … Read more

In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Katherine Eltz in the Papadopoulou lab. Combining her passions in marine biology and biomedical engineering, Eltz studies the physiology of decompression sickness in scuba divers, astronauts, and sea turtles using … Read more

Matthew Fisher, associate professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and principal investigator of the Translational Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, was awarded a 5-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Arthritis … Read more

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of North Carolina announced the winners of the 2023-2024 Creativity Hubs seed funding awards This article was originally published by UNC Research. The following excerpt has been selected for … Read more

Congratulations to Gabrielle Brim, BME Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant in the Orthopedic Mechanobiology Lab, on receiving the Witherspoon Graduate Fellowship this summer. This article was written by Elizabeth Weintrob for the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.  The Witherspoon … Read more

Joseph Burclaff, research assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded the 2024 AGA-Bristol Mayers Squibb Research Scholar Award in inflammatory bowel disease through the American Gastroenterological Association. Burclaff was selected for this prestigious award for … Read more