Congratulations to Caterina Gallippi, Ashley Brown, and Rahima Benhabbour for receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project Grants (R01s) this summer. R01 grants are the oldest grant process used at the NIH, and they are extremely competitive to obtain. … Read more

written by Kathleen Clardy for Joint BME Communications   A recently published research study explores the integration of ultrasound with functional electrical stimulation (FES), which is traditionally used to manage drop foot, a condition that results in an unnatural gait … Read more

The Georgia Tech Alumni Association has chosen BME’s Ashley Brown as a 2023 Forty Under Forty Honoree in the field of academia. The Alumni Association’s “Forty Under Forty” is a competitive recognition program that honors outstanding young alumni who have … Read more

RTP medical company SonoVascular is one step closer to improving treatment for those with venous thromboembolism after securing capital and resources from the Wolfpack Investor Network. This article was originally posted on July 5th, 2023, by Margaret Huffman at NC State … Read more

Varun Nalam, Post-doc, Brendan Driscoll, Ph.D. student, and He (Helen) Huang, Ph.D., Jackson Family Distinguished Professor of the Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL)’s, were invited to give an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) tech demo at the … Read more

BME’s NC State CLEAR Coordinator Laura Rohrbaugh and Laboratory Manager Jennifer Sollinger are Biomedical Engineering’s selections for the 2023 Awards for Excellence. They were recognized, respectively, as BME’s SHRA and EHRA Awards for Excellence selections at a College of Engineering … Read more

A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA. The chemical is also found in trace amounts in the sweetener itself, and the finding raises questions about how … Read more

Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a new strategy to improve drug delivery into chronic wound infections. This article was originally published on … Read more

Wesley Legant, assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and the UNC Department of Pharmacology, received a grant for his project titled “Observing Molecules in Context with 4Pi Lattice Light Sheet Nanoscopy” as part of the Chan Zuckerberg … Read more

This spring, UNC’s Academic Advising Program solicited student input to nominate advisors and staff serving in an advising capacity for campus awards. The nomination committee selected Naji Husseini, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Joint Department … Read more