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The Journal of Applied Biomechanics (JAB) and its publisher, Human Kinetics, are excited to announce the hiring of Jason Franz (PhD) as its Deputy Editor. Dr. Franz’s one-year term as Deputy Editor wi… Read more

First cohort of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty recognized for advancing innovation, mentorship through their research. This article was originally published on January 15, 2025, by Shellie Edge at Innovate C… Read more

Xinrui Ma, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC, was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 Radiology Department Research Symposium. This marks… Read more

The funded research is led by Rahima Benhabbour, principal investigator and associate professor of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University. Co-PIs for… Read more

Helen Huang and her lab are building better prosthetics by enhancing them with robotics and AI. This article was originally published on October 29th, 2024, by Alyssa LaFaro with UNC Research Stories… Read more

The Joint Department is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 BME Achievement Awards! The awards committee acknowledges the following recipients for their remarkable talents, accomplishments and d… Read more

NC State’s Comparative Medicine Institute recently held its annual “Think, Collaborate & Do” Ideation event, bringing faculty, graduate students and postdocs from across the university to foster i… Read more

As an NC State College of Engineering student, Margaret (Meg) Stokes Alden ‘02 knew she wanted to do something that would help people — but it took her a while to decide if she’d be able to make a gre… Read more

Amol Yadav, assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, was honored with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awa… Read more

William Polacheck, associate professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, has received the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator’s Award fro… Read more

New NIH-funded program emphasizes ultrasound research commercialization This article was originally published on July 26, 2024 by NC State Engineering Communications and can be read here.  Ultrasound… Read more

Researchers have established a suite of parameters that can be determined using ultrasound to quantitatively measure different physical characteristics of the lung. The researchers also demonstrated t… Read more