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BME Professor Shawn Gomez’s team wins 2019 Creativity Hubs Award

This month the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announced the 2019 Creativity Hubs Awards to accelerate solutions to societal challenges. This year the OVCR was able to award… Read more

BME Graduate Student Billy Clark awarded a National Research Service Award from NIH

BME Graduate student Billy Clark has been awarded an NIH National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute on Aging. Billy, a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Biomechanics Lab… Read more

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Five BME Awardees in the NCTraCS 2019 competition

The School of Medicine’s Translational Team Science (TTS) Award, administered in partnership with NC TraCS, has recently announced funding for four projects led or co-led by BME faculty. Among the NC… Read more

Regenerative Medicine: Researchers from UNC and NCSU are developing new materials for creating soft tissues

The Forging Interdisciplinary Bio-inspired Engineered Regenerative Science (FIBERS) team of researchers at NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found a potential… Read more

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BME Assistant Professor Imran Rizvi elected to the Board of Directors of the International Photodynamic Association (IPA)

BME Assistant Professor Imran Rizvi has been recently elected to the Board of Directors of the  International Photodynamic Association. Only twelve candidates were chosen from among forty internationa… Read more

National Biomechanics Day: high school students interact with BME scientists

NC State’s April 2019 event brought 140 high school students and their teachers to Centennial Campus for demonstrations and lab tours, to learn about Biomechanics and interact with NC State scientists… Read more

BME Graduate Kristina Rivera awarded a Mentored Teaching Fellowship (MTF)

BME Graduate student Kristina Rivera has been awarded a Mentored Teaching Fellowship (MTF) by NC State’s College of Engineering. In the Fall 2019 semester BME Associate Professor Dr. Scott Magness wil… Read more

BME Teaching Assistant Professor Devin Hubbard featured in the Global Medical Device Podcast

BME Teaching Assistant Professor Devin K. Hubbard was recently featured in the Global Medical Device Podcast, during an interview with Jon Speer, founder and VP of Quality at Greenlight Guru. Dr. Hubb… Read more

BME Assistant Professor Wesley Legant named 2019 Beckman Young Investigator (BYI)

BME Assistant Professor Wesley Legant has just been selected as a 2019 Beckman Young Investigator (BYI), with a grant award of up to $600,000 to support his proposed research, “Intelligent Microscopes… Read more

BME Assistant Professor Polacheck’s latest article featured on the cover of Nature Protocols

The current cover of Nature Protocols features the latest work of BME Assistant Professor William J. Polacheck, a collaboration with his former colleagues at The Wyss Institute, Harvard University and… Read more

47th Annual Induction Ceremony into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

BME’s Lampe Distinguished Professor Frances Ligler and her husband George Ligler, Dean’s Eminent Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering at UNC/ NCSU Joint Department were photographed las… Read more

Two BME recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The National Science Foundation has awarded its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship to 14 NC State students this year. Two of the awardees Charlotte DeVol and Emily Fawcett are pursuing graduate… Read more