News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Abrams Scholars! The Abrams Scholarship program provides stipends to undergraduate students to undertake faculty-guided laboratory research projects. The 28 awardees,… Read more
Dr. Zhen Gu’s “smart” insulin patch has made the headlines again- this time, in the U.S. News & World Report. According to the article, clinical experts in the diabetes space are hopeful that this… Read more
Nancy Allbritton, Kenan Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, will be honored with the 2017 Edward Kidder Graham Award. The Edward Kidder Graham Award was establis… Read more