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In January 2020 the Joint Department’s Helen Huang was appointed Jackson Family Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering. The Jackson family is a generous member of NC State’s William Joseph… Read more
Local company Cortical Metrics, a spin-out from UNC/NC State BME faculty, was featured in a recent article on NC Business News Wire. The story’s focus was Cortical Metrics’ signature product Brain Gau… Read more
In December 2019 new Joint Department Associate Professor Nitin Sharma and his former colleagues at the University of Florida received the 2019 Control Systems Technology award at the IEEE Conference… Read more
BME Assistant Professors Brian Diekman and Imran Rizvi received 2020 Junior Faculty Development Awards from the UNC Provost’s Office Committee on Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves. Support for thi… Read more
In December 2019 six BME undergraduates were awarded seven NC State College of Engineering scholarships. Junior Courtney Odea received the Richard Greenwood Thomas Engineering Scholarship. Recipients… Read more
Assistant Professor Rahima Benhabbour with her breakthrough product, AnelleO Read more
BME Associate Professor Derek Kamper, who is also Associate Director of Closed-Loop Engineering for Advanced Rehabilitation (CLEAR), has codevelop a virtual reality clinic to make it easier for stroke… Read more
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has awarded BME assistant professor Matt Fisher with the 2020 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award “for leadership in musculoskeletal bioengineering and tra… Read more
UNC-affiliated startup company SonoVol is co-founded by Professor and interim chair of BME Paul Dayton and BME alumni Ryan Gessner, who is CEO of the company. SonoVol is a life science research tools… Read more
BME Assistant Professor Matt Fisher has been named one of the 2020 Rising Stars by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group within BMES, Biomedical Engineering Society. Awardee… Read more
BME Professor Ke Cheng has recently been named the Randall B. Terry, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Regenerative Medicine. The endowed professorship is the result of a $1 million donation from the R.B… Read more
BME Kenan Distinguished Professor Paul Dayton has been named Interim Chair of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective Nov. 1. Dr. Dayton is taking over for Dr. Nancy Allbritton, who… Read more