Each year, The Graduate School recognizes four doctoral candidates or recent doctoral graduates for creating exceptional dissertations in each of the following fields: biological and life sciences; humanities and fine arts; mathematics, physical sciences and engineering; and social sciences. “This … Read more

Grant Scull, a Ph.D. candidate, was awarded the Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) award by the Society for Biomaterials (SFB). Scull works with Ashley Brown, associate professor and director of the Advanced Wound Healing Lab. Scull’s research centers on therapeutics … Read more

A research team led by William Polacheck, Ph.D., at the UNC School of Medicine, has engineered a microfluidic model that mimics a rare genetic disorder affecting the structure of veins, arteries, capillaries and lymphatic vessels. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Our … Read more

Researchers have developed an inhalable powder that could protect lungs and airways from viral invasion by reinforcing the body’s own mucosal layer. The powder, called Spherical Hydrogel Inhalation for Enhanced Lung Defense, or SHIELD, reduced infection in both mouse and … Read more

NC State’s 2022-23 class of University Faculty Scholars was announced today. These 22 early- and mid-career faculty receive this designation in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements and contributions to NC State through their teaching, scholarship and service to the university and … Read more

Rahima Benhabbour, Ph.D., M.Sc., associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, led a successful effort to create an injectable implant that can release effective HIV PrEP medications into the body for six months in non-human primates. This article was originally published by … Read more

Joint Department Achievement Awardees:   Ph.D. Student Research Achievement The award for Ph.D. student achievement in Research goes to Sang Hun Chung and Hossein Eybposh. Sang exemplifies the BME mission of uniting engineering and medicine to improve lives. He has … Read more

The UNC School of Medicine Office of Research provided pilot funding to three teams for cutting-edge basic science discovery research. The following article was originally published by the UNC School of Medicine on January 11, 2023 and can be found … Read more

…excited to announce that one of the 11 Graduate Student Impact Awards was granted to the following recipient: Keerthi S. Anand (‘18, Ph.D.) candidate UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State…

written by Kathleen Clardy for Joint BME Communications   Miranda Ludovice, a Ph.D. student in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering based at NC State University, has been awarded a prestigious Goodnight Doctoral Fellowship for her research focus in rehabilitative … Read more