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Dr. Albert Banes, BME Faculty Emeritus and Founder and President of Flexcell International Corporation, recently checked in with the Joint Department to update us about his company and share his pride… Read more
Congratulations to the Lab of Dr. William Polacheck, BME Assistant Professor and a member of the McAllister Heart Institute at UNC for the receipt of R35 Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA… Read more
Save the date on November 10 for a panel discussion with UNC leaders, faculty, Carolina startup experts and media partner WRAL Digital Solutions, who will explore the paths traveled by research-based… Read more
Our Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State is proud to honor the following faculty and staff awarded a certificate for years of service in 2020-2021: On NC State campus, 5-year… Read more
A recent publication in Science Advances by BME Postdoc Edikan Ogunnaike reports the improvement of immunotherapy’s effectiveness by pairing a newly developed gel with immunotherapy that was delivered… Read more
BME Dr. Freytes’ REdesign lab reports a new study led by postdoctoral researcher Camilo Mora-Navarro, PhD, titled “Transcriptome-Targeted Analysis of Human Peripheral Blood-Derived Macrophages When Cu… Read more
BME Assistant Professor Brian Diekman and his team have recently been awarded two NIH Grants totaling over $400K for Osteoarthritis Research (OA). On the one hand, the R21 grant provides two years of… Read more
Our department’s Academic Advisor Julia Rao is among the 2021 Pride of the Wolfpack Winners. Julia joined the UNC/ NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2020, following over two years… Read more
BME Associate Professor Ashley Brown won the Therapeutics People’s Choice Award for her pitch last week at Equalize 2021, the only pitch competition for women in academia, hosted by Washington Univers… Read more
BME recent alum Caroline Greiner led an effort to brighten up the stairwell going down to the design labs in Phillips Hall on UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. Her idea was a big one, and she got support from U… Read more
2022 American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award in Analytical Chemistry, sponsored by Battelle Memorial Institute, goes to BME Ross Lampe Distinguished Professor Fran Ligler. She will be honored a… Read more
BME Associate Professor Nitin Sharma and his collaborators have recently been awarded an NIH Trailblazer R21 Award for research on Data-driven Modeling and Ultrasound-based Control of Afferent Nerve S… Read more