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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

Triangle Business Journal and accounting firm BDO have announced the third annual class of Life Sciences Awards winners. BME spinout company Novocor Medical Systems has been included in the most recen… Read more

BME doctoral student Jin Di has won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for her work with diabetes research. She has developed a system that painlessly releases insulin by applyin… Read more

Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. Student in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, was awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship to spend a year at the University of Cambridge in the UK for the 2015-2016 Academic Year. Li… Read more

Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair of the Joint BME Department, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. AAAS elevates members to t… Read more

Dennis Pacardo, a BME Postdoctoral Researcher at NC State, has been selected to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany as a Young Scientist. This year’s Meeting will be the f… Read more

BME faculty Dr. Gregory Sawicki’s co-authored paper, “Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton,” was published online in Nature on April 1, 2015.  The published results… Read more

Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering affiliate Scott Magness, PhD, collaborating with BME Chair Dr. Nancy Allbritton describe in the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom the use o… Read more

Team Delta Dose won first place at IdeaFest 2015 on February 27 in Danville, Virginia. The members of the team, BME students Allie Pinosky, Kevin Simpson, Alanna Smith, and Jenna Kilgore are developin… Read more

Andrew DiMeo has been named “IEEE Educator of the Year” by the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Dr. DiMeo will be recognized at the 2015 Life Sciences Awards Ev… Read more