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Four recent UNC graduates placed as finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, held at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Chase DuBois, Jorge Martinez-Blat, John Pam… Read more
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Dr. Zhen Gu and his team of international researchers at NC State, UNC, and China Pharmaceutical University have developed a drug delivery technique using graphene strips as “flying carpets” to delive… Read more
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Dr. Liliana Mellor was selected for a Career Development Award from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to continue studying the interactions between subchondral bone and cartilage in res… Read more
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The Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research has awarded Kenan grants to five BME faculty members. Dr. Matthew Fisher received a Kenan grant for “In-vitro and In-vivo Characterizatio… Read more
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Mahsa Mohiti-Asli was awarded first place in the post-doctoral fellow poster competition at NCTERMS 2014 for her poster titled “Large-Scale Production of Ibuprofen Loaded Nanofibers for Treatment of C… Read more
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Congratulations to this year’s eight Abrams Scholars selected from a very strong applicant pool of 36 BME undergraduates interested in guided laboratory research to enhance their undergraduate educati… Read more
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Kent Gordon won a Tony B. Academic Travel Award from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening. Due to the high volume of applications received, this year’s award was highly competitive. Mr…. Read more
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Zhen Gu, faculty in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a Pathway to Stop Diabetes Research Award from the American Diabetes Association for his research project titled “Bio-inspi… Read more
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Jennifer Price received honorable mention for her team’s project developing a mobile, objective, concussion screening tool designed specifically for in-field use in a military or sports setting. It co… Read more
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James Dieffenderfer’s VitalFlo Spirometer won the first prize of $150,000 in the 2014 CIMIT-MGH-APF Primary Healthcare national competition. Dieffenderfer’s team is developing a low-cost, compact, han… Read more
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BME core faculty member Fran Ligler was named to the Advisory Committee for ASCOS, a European initiative to establish an education, discussion, and contact platform for young researchers working in th… Read more
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The work of BME’s Rehabilitation Engineering Center Director Helen Huang, and her researchers Fan Zhang and Ming Liu, are featured in Episode 29 of NSFScience Now. The Huang group’s studies regarding… Read more