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Congratulations to Alexa Romero, Ian Voos, and Keerthi Anand for winning UNC Honors Thesis research awards! Roughly 350 Honors Carolina students cap their undergraduate experience with a Senior Honors… Read more
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BME graduate student Soha Bazyar was a first-place winner in the UNC Lineberger Annual Retreat poster session in October. Mentored by Yueh Lee, Soha’s poster was titled “Efficacy of Combined Microbeam… Read more
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Post-doctoral researcher Dr. Edikan Archibong has received an AIMBE travel award to attend the Public Policy Institute’s Rising Leaders conference! Taking place in Washington, DC, the conference offer… Read more
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New BME faculty member Dr. Bill Polacheck and a team of Harvard scientists have discovered a new cell signaling pathway that is a promising target for drugs to treat a variety of conditions, including… Read more
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BME faculty member Dr. Brian Diekman has received a $100,000 grant from the American Foundation for Aging Research (AFAR)/Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) to study the mechanisms of aging… Read more
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The UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) (www.bme.unc.edu) is seeking to fill a 9-month tenure-track position in Rehabilitation Engineering at the rank of Assistant Professor…. Read more
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Dr. Ashley Brown and an inter-institutional team of researchers from NC State, UNC, and Duke have recently been awarded a Duke/NC State Clinical and Translational Science Award to study synthetic plat… Read more
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Gut cancers are some of the least understood in the oncology world, something Dr. Scott Magness hopes to change in the near future. He and a dedicated research team have received funding from the Nati… Read more
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Dr. Jason Franz and his Applied Biomechanics Laboratory have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study walking balance control and risk of falls in the elderly. The project wil… Read more
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Stephanie Teeter is celebrating 10 years of service with BME at NC State! Stephanie joined the department in 2007 and since then has worked as a laboratory manager and research technician for several… Read more
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The microneedle patch developed by Dr. Zhen Gu and his research team now has a new application: delivering fat-fighting therapies. Zhen and his team have created a patch-based method by which energy-s… Read more