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The Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience have launched a graduate certificate in Biomedical Imaging Science. Biomedical Imaging is a critical area of research with far… Read more
Last Friday Sept 27 BME faculty, staff and students reconnected at the BME Annual Retreat in North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Keynote speaker Prof. David Reinkensmeyer from the School of Engineeri… Read more
On September 19, BME Associate Professor Scott Magness met with Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, and Representative David Price, as well as other Congressional leaders from around the nation, as… Read more
This week BME Assistant Professor Wesley Legant was selected as one of the 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipients. Dr. Legant will receive $2.2 million to support innovative biomedical res… Read more
Rahima Benhabbour, assistant professor in the UNC/NC State Joint BME Department and an adjunct professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is doing breakthrough research. Benhabbour is first aut… Read more
BME recent alumni Morgan Goetz won a national championship in UNC field hockey last November and graduated in May with a GPA that was one of the five highest among female student-athletes at Carolina…. Read more
BME fourth year PhD Student Izzie Newsome has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Cancer Institute. This award will fund the p… Read more
This year, six promising projects will receive support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF), helping researchers turn their discoveries into market-ready solutions. One such projects is “a prom… Read more
Dr. Frances Ligler, BME Lampe Distinguished Professor and a pioneer in biosensors and microfluidics, is a superhero. In 2017 when she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, she was als… Read more
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has recently announced the 2019 cohort of Gilliam fellows and adviser pairs: BME PhD Student Kristina Rivera is among this year’s 44 fellows, together with BME advi… Read more
This week the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost announced that BME Professor Paul Dayton is receiving a W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor appointment. Professor Dayton, a biome… Read more
BME Assistant Professor Jason Franz and his research group at the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory recently published “Time-dependent tuning of balance control and aftereffects following optical flow p… Read more