BME Professor Michael Ramsey, who is faculty member in the UNC Departments of Chemistry and Applied Physical Sciences, is the founder of 908 Devices Inc, which received funding from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). Launched in … Continued

PhD Candidate Isabella Young, who is a student in the BME lab of Dr Rahima Benhabbour within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has recently won the International AIDS Society (IAS) Prize for Research in HIV Prevention. Her abstract entitled … Continued

BME Affiliated Faculty Amay Bandodkar, who is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, was recently selected by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Dr Bandodkar works … Continued

BME Professor Ke Cheng, who is also Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine in NC State University, has recently published that ACE2 nanodecoys derived from human lung spheroid cells (LSCs) can bind and neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and … Continued

As Assistant Professor in the Joint BME Department and Adjunct Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Dr Rahima Benhabbour’s ultimate goal has been to develop and commercialize innovative drug delivery devices for disease prevention and treatment. Back in … Continued

BME Assistant Professor Bill Polacheck has recently received an American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award for his research project “The Role of the Notch Mechanosensory Complex in the Vascular Endothelium.” The AHA Career Development awards are given for three … Continued

Aryssa Simpson, a first-year BME graduate student in the lab of Assistant Professor Ashley Brown, has been awarded a Witherspoon Graduate Fellowship. This year, there were 23 nominations, and only 7 graduate students selected by representatives from both the Black Alumni … Continued

After an extensive review and live pitch to their industry advisory board, the Eshelman Institute for Innovation has selected Co-Principal Investigators Jason Franz (BME Associate Professor) and Brian Pietrosimone (EXSS Associate Professor) for funding designed to drive cutting-edge technologies that … Continued

Nicolas C. Pégard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Applied Physical Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a 2021 Beckman Young Investigator (BYI), with a grant award of $600,000 to support … Continued

NC State’s Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) was recently awarded two NIH T32 Training grant awards to support interdisciplinary team science training of graduate students.  One of these, on the topic of comparative molecular medicine, is a significant collaboration with numerous … Continued