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BME Distinguished Professor Frances Ligler is a Superhero

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

BME PhD Student Kristina Rivera named 2019 Gilliam Fellow

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

BME Prof Paul Dayton receives 2019 W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor Appointment

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

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BME Applied Biomechanics Lab’s Research to Improve Walking Balance

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

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

BME Assistant Professor Imran Rizvi
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