Dr. Huang’s post for NC State’s ongoing news series, “This Is What Science Looks Like at NC State,” was published January 20. In this great article she includes some features of her professional career and her latest research, as well … Read more
The front page of January 16th’s News & Observer recognizes Dr. Zhen Gu for receiving a grant from the American Diabetes Association. With this $1.6 million dollar grant, Dr. Gu plans to create a synthetic version of the human cell … Read more
Christopher Giardina, an MD/Ph.D. student in the School of Medicine, has won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for his work with cochlear implants. Giardina, along with faculty members Oliver Adunka and Douglas Fitzpatrick, has designed surgical tools … Read more
Four recent UNC graduates placed as finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, held at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Chase DuBois, Jorge Martinez-Blat, John Pamplin, and Chris Roberts are 2014 UNC graduates in Applied Sciences with … Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu and his team of international researchers at NC State, UNC, and China Pharmaceutical University have developed a drug delivery technique using graphene strips as “flying carpets” to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells. “These drug-rich … Read more
Dr. Liliana Mellor was selected for a Career Development Award from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to continue studying the interactions between subchondral bone and cartilage in response to microgravity. BME congratulates Dr. Mellor for her success!
The Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research has awarded Kenan grants to five BME faculty members. Dr. Matthew Fisher received a Kenan grant for “In-vitro and In-vivo Characterization of 3D-Bioplotted Scaffold Design for Tissue Engineering of the Knee Meniscus.” … Read more
Mahsa Mohiti-Asli was awarded first place in the post-doctoral fellow poster competition at NCTERMS 2014 for her poster titled “Large-Scale Production of Ibuprofen Loaded Nanofibers for Treatment of Chronic Wounds.” Dr. Mohiti-Asli has her PhD from NC State and is … Read more
Congratulations to this year’s eight Abrams Scholars selected from a very strong applicant pool of 36 BME undergraduates interested in guided laboratory research to enhance their undergraduate education. The eight are: Hunter Bomba, Matthew Conrad, Mehdi Hamouda, Austin Murray, Arianna … Read more
Kent Gordon won a Tony B. Academic Travel Award from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening. Due to the high volume of applications received, this year’s award was highly competitive. Mr. Gordon will be presenting his poster “Novel Magnetic … Read more
