Dennis Pacardo, a BME Postdoctoral Researcher at NC State, has been selected to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany as a Young Scientist. This year’s Meeting will be the fourth interdisciplinary meeting, bringing together 70 Nobel … Read more

BME faculty Dr. Gregory Sawicki’s co-authored paper, “Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton,” was published online in Nature on April 1, 2015.  The published results show that humans can get better gas mileage using an … Read more

Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering affiliate Scott Magness, PhD, collaborating with BME Chair Dr. Nancy Allbritton describe in the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom the use of their newly developed technology to dissect properties of single … Read more

Team Delta Dose won first place at IdeaFest 2015 on February 27 in Danville, Virginia. The members of the team, BME students Allie Pinosky, Kevin Simpson, Alanna Smith, and Jenna Kilgore are developing a device that speeds up the process … Read more

Andrew DiMeo has been named “IEEE Educator of the Year” by the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Dr. DiMeo will be recognized at the 2015 Life Sciences Awards Events on June 5 at the NC … Read more

The Vascular Visionaries, a team of undergraduate students from Dr. Andrew DiMeo’s senior design class, were honored at an awards ceremony and reception in the fall for their National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying’s Engineering Award for Connecting … Read more

The UNCGA has awarded six three-year grants totaling nearly $9 million to support faculty research. These grants are the first UNC Research Opportunities Initiative (ROI) awards and were awarded to faculty around the UNC campuses. Dr. Fran Ligler and Dr. … Read more

Novocor will be a showcase company at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s 2015 Life Science Conference. Tony Voiers and Andrew DiMeo founded Novocor in 2013 to license their first medical device, HypoCore, which was designed with the help of NC … Read more

Two teams of UNC and NC State students have been accepted into the 2015 Carolina Challenge. The first team, Nervana Biomedical, is comprised of NC State students Aaron Srivastava, Anna Komsa, Bryan Burke, Kory Mack, and Nathan Titus. Duke Neurosurgery … Read more

Matthew Kossell, a senior in the BME undergraduate program, recently completed a yearlong internship at DSM Biomedical (formerly Kensey Nash Biomedical) in Exton, PA. During his time at DSM, Matt worked with Extracellular Matrix Technology R&D. Matt’s main responsibilities involved … Read more