Two BME students recently won travel awards to the 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Kobe, Japan. The two students, Danai Soulioti and Murad Hossain, each received $1000 to help fund the trip, which will take place from October 22-25. … Read more

Biomedical engineering department takes $25,000 grand prize for pediatric brain surgery project The 2018 NCEES Engineering Education Award $25,000 grand prize went to the North Carolina State University UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering for their submission, Enabling Pediatric Brain … Read more

410 Medical, the company that in 2017 commercialized a product created by BME students, has recently received $3.1 million in new funding! The product, called LifeFlow, was developed in Dr. Andrew DiMeo’s Senior Design class by a five-woman team of … Read more

Cell Microsystems, a company founded by BME Chair/Department Head Dr. Nancy Allbritton, recently made the first commercial sale of its automated AIR system. The sale was made to Albert Einstein College of Medicine investigator Jan Vijg, PhD. The AIR system is … Read more

Every year, the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards grants to a small group of NC State innovators. The fund aims to bridge the gap between public and private funding, and allows researchers to invest in testing and prototyping to prepare their … Read more

BME Assistant Professor Dr. Jason Franz, in a remarkable example of the inter-disciplinary nature of biomedical engineering and the impact of collaborative science, was recently awarded two new major research grants from the National Institutes of Health. First, in collaboration … Read more

In a recent article published by WRAL TechWire, BME researchers were placed in the spotlight. The team, including assistant professor Michael Daniele and Ph.D. student Kristina Rivera, has developed a new biosensor which collects data on oxygen levels in microscopic … Read more

Recent stories published by WRAL TechWire and NC State featured the research accomplishments of several BME faculty and students. The article highlights the findings of a team led by Dr. Ashley Brown, Assistant Professor in the department. The group developed … Read more

Drs. Lizhi Pan and Dustin Crouch, current and former postdoctoral researchers in Dr. Helen Huang’s CLEAR Core, respectively, have co-authored a paper that describes new technology that can be used to better control hand prosthetics. The technology is based on … Read more

BME is proud to have had two firsts at this year’s World Biosensors Congress: based on selection of 12 keynote talks out of over 1000 submitted abstracts, BME graduate students Kristina Rivera and Kohei Ito were both selected as keynote … Read more