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Dr. Fran Ligler has dedicated her life to bettering the lives of millions, and last month the National Inventors Hall of Fame announced that they would be honoring this dedication by inducting her int… Read more

Microtumors are one of the most pressing concerns for cancer patients after they have undergone surgery to remove the larger tumors. Whether the microtumors are missed due to their size, or developed… Read more

The Department has once again been featured by a major educational institution – this time, by the University System of North Carolina. The feature, found on the system’s webpage, talks in detail abou… Read more

A team of researchers have developed a synthetic cardiac stem cell that greatly reduces the risks associated with standard stem cell therapy. Led by Ke Cheng, associate professor in BME and Molecular… Read more

May 2, 2018 2-10 PM Registration 2-3 PM.  Presentations begin at 3 PM. Durham Convention Center 301 West Morgan St, Durham, NC 27701 RSVP HERE 12th Annual Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Symposiu… Read more

Congratulations to our Dr. Fran Ligler, Lampe Distinguished Professor, who has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)! The NAI is a non-profit organization that recognizes… Read more

NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson has announced the 2016-2017 class of University Faculty Scholars, and two Biomedical Engineering faculty, Drs. Zhen Gu and Ke Cheng, have been named to this prestigio… Read more

Dr. Zhen Gu has been hard at work creating and studying the uses of his “smartpatch”– a patch with hundreds of micro-needles that, when applied to the skin, feels like a band-aid and can deliver drug… Read more

Yanqi Ye, a BME graduate student working with Dr. Zhen Gu, accepted the Best Paper Award given by the NC State Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) last month at the Joint AIF Symposium.  The pap… Read more

Earlier this month, NC State announced the winners of its prestigious Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP), a program dedicated to enhancing forward-thinking and collaborative research. We… Read more

Last month, BME Industrial Advisory Board member Peter Johnson chaired the NC Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Symposium (NCTERMS), a one-day meeting aimed at fostering collaborations in t… Read more

The Higher Education Works Foundation recently interviewed Dr. Carol Folt, Chancellor at the University of North Carolina, about the current state of UNC research and what excites her about it. Chance… Read more