BME’s Information Technology team, Dustin Jones and Eugene Yamamura, received a Fall 2014 UNC IT Excellence Award. Out of 17 team nominations from across the entire UNC Campus, 3 groups were selected from a board of their peers as winners. … Read more

North Carolina State University’s Graduate School awarded three BME graduate students Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grants for Spring 2015. They were Allison Amos, Hayley Dirscherl and Lauren Putvin. The Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant program provides both funding and intensive mentoring to … Read more

Researchers in Dr. Zhen Gu’s lab have developed “nano-cocoons” (see left) that offer targeted drug delivery against cancer cells. This innovative design utilizes DNA that tricks the cancer cell absorbing the cocoon before the cocoon unravels and unleashes anticancer drugs … Read more

Jeffrey Powell has gone above and beyond to assist a local six year old boy, Holden Mora, who was born without fully-formed fingers on his left hand. As an undergraduate in the Biomedical Engineering program at UNC, Jeff has access … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Zigoneanu, a postdoctoral fellow working in Dr. Allbritton’s lab, on her recent Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Across the National Institutes of Health, the success rate for F32 applicants … Read more

Brent Sheerer, UNC Alumnus and President of Ultra-Met Carbide Technologies, has led the way in establishing the Sheerer Family Fund for Undergraduate Research in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. His $25,000 commitment, matched by a gift from Ultra-Met, will … Read more

BME Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Brian Cummins (working with Dr. Frances Ligler) and Dr. Liliana Mellor (working with Dr. Elizabeth Loboa) were selected for a 2014-2015 Professional Development Award from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Graduate School. The award … Read more

This spring, BME core faculty member Fran Ligler was selected to chair a newly formed NRC Panel on Review of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  The Panel will assess the scientific and … Read more

BME core faculty member, Dr. Greg Sawicki, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health R21 Grant. The funded research project is titled “Robotic Ankle to Restore Symmetry and Reduce Energy Cost of Walking Post-Stroke.” Dr. Sawicki will serve as … Read more

Dr. Elizabeth Loboa was recently selected to write a blog post for the NC State series “This Is What Science Looks like at NC State.” The series seeks to put a face on research at NC State by having a … Read more