News

The June 29th event was an innovation-focused competition featuring teams’ five-minute pitches for new medical technologies. The event was designed to match surgeons with engineers based on their mutu… Read more

BME graduate student Sarah Shelton is featured in the School of Medicine’s June Vital Signs.  Go here to read a great interview with Sarah about her aspirations of becoming a professional flamenco dan… Read more

BME professor and associate department chair Elizabeth Loboa has been named a Fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) at Drexel Fellowship Program. This is a… Read more

NC State BME Postdoc Brian Cummins, Ph.D won best poster at the NC State Postdoctoral Research Symposium on May 20th.  His poster, titled “A portable diagnostic test for parathyroid hormone for use at… Read more

A recent $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will enable BME faculty member Paul Dayton and researchers at three other institutions to develop ultrasound molecular imaging technology f… Read more

In March 2015 President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair, featuring outstanding young scholars from around the country, and intended to celebrate their achievements in STEM. Michaela Rikard,… Read more

An article about BME faculty member Dr. Greg Sawicki’s unpowered exoskeleton device was published in Nature in April of this year.  NC State’s news article about Dr. Sawicki features an exciting video… Read more

Cortical Metrics, a spin out company based on research conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is making headlines for a radical new technology that it has developed for assessin… Read more

Please join us in giving a heartfelt congratulations to Rekha for having received this year’s College of Engineering’s Awards for Excellence at NC State. At the University level, an Award for Excellen… Read more

First year BME undergraduate student Elliot Krause has made a prosthetic hand for an 11-year-old Raleigh girl as part of the Helping Hand project. Elliot used the 3D printer that is available to UNC u… Read more

Two students in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, Joseph Welsh, an undergraduate student, and Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. student, were awarded a NASA/NC Space Grant Fellowship. Joseph will be working with Dr. Ant… Read more

BME graduate student Rachel Nordberg has been selected to receive a NASA/NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship program provides add-on support for graduate students to supplemen… Read more