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BME Faculty Jason Franz, in collaboration with UNC Healthcare and researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded an exciting new Research Grant from the National Multi… Read more
Two BME undergraduate students received NC State Undergraduate Research Grants for the 2017-2018 school year. Vibhavari Vempala, a senior in Dr. Helen Huang’s CLEAR lab, received the grant to continue… Read more
BME Faculty member Dr. Jacque Cole is the 2017 recipient of the Junior Faculty Research Grant from the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB)! This grant is intended to be used to help generate pilot… Read more
The Controlled Release Society (CRS) has chosen Dr. Zhen Gu as the recipient of this year’s Young Investigator Award. This award recognizes a CRS member who has made outstanding contributions in the s… Read more
BME graduate student Gabriela Torres won first place in the Student Paper Competition during July’s IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Symposium (EMBS) held in JeJu, Korea! The conference… Read more
We are excited to announce the transformation of the former REC into the Closed-Loop Engineering for Advanced Rehabilitation (CLEAR) core. Administratively housed in the Joint Department of Biomedical… Read more
Chris Giardina, a BME MD/PhD candidate, has been awarded his first ever US patent for technology relating to cataract surgery. “I’m really proud to be a part of this department,” Chris said when asked… Read more
tHINK, the NC State Graduate School magazine, is a biannual publication that features stories about Wolfpack students who are the best and brightest of their generation. It comes as no surprise, then,… Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu’s smart insulin delivery technology has made waves in the biomedical community. Now, his startup company Zenomics is on its way to delivering cost-effective and painless diabetic solutions… Read more
BME Industry Advisory Board member George Ligler has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. An expert in complex, interdisciplinary systems engineering, he will be inducted into the NAE… Read more
BME’s student-led groups continue to dominate in national and international medical device design competitions. In June, the ASAIO (formerly American Society for Artificial Internal Organs) held its a… Read more
The partnership between the medical school at UNC Chapel Hill and the engineering school at NC State has resulted in innumerable breakthroughs and next-generation innovation. This time, a collaborativ… Read more