The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction to its College of Fellows of two current and one recent UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Professors. The Joint Department’s inductees include: Dr. Koji Sode, William R. Kenan … Read more
Last December, first-year BME Ph.D. student Maura Vrabel, in collaboration with another graduate student Franklin Mejia at the University of Notre Dame, travelled to the Dominican Republic to lead the first annual Dia de Ciencia (Science Day) at local high … Read more
This year we received an unprecedented amount of funding from the College of Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates program and were able to fund 32 Abrams Scholars for 2018-2019. Below is the list of BME undergraduate students and their faculty … Read more
UNC/NC State Joint BME Department Research Assistant Professor Virginie Papadopoulou and her colleagues at Dayton Lab are exploring the use of ultrasound and microbubbles in detecting and treating cancer. For decades, researchers have been analyzing the use of microbubbles for a … Read more
BME Assistant Professor Andrea Giovannucci and his former colleague Eftychios Pnevmatikakis at the Flatiron Institute in New York have spent 3 years developing CalmAn, an open-source calcium imaging analysis software. The tool replaces the process of manually tracking the location … Read more
Earlier last month of February BME got the award for most participation in the North Carolina State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC). The scholarship was awarded to Candace Burgin, Junior undergraduate student at NCSU/ UNC BME. Candace defines herself as a … Read more
Watch BME Professor Helen Huang in the “Think and Do the Extraordinary” NC State University TV commercial, which is aired during NC State sporting events. In the thirty second video, students and faculty at NC State University explain how the … Read more
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 5-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to BME Assistant Professor Ashley Brown for her research in “Dynamic microgels that mimic platelet behavior to promote healing.” Prof. Brown has been developing the … Read more
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 5-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to BME Assistant Professor Xiaogang Hu for his research in “Robust Decoding of Neural Command for Real Time Human Machine Interactions.” Prof. Hu aims to … Read more
Four BME graduate students, Emily Fawcett, Murad Hossain, Connor Puett and Gabriella Torres are the proud recipients of a travel award to participate at this year’s SPIE meeting. Science and industry connect at SPIE, and the greatest minds showcase the latest innovations across a … Read more
