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The UNCGA has awarded six three-year grants totaling nearly $9 million to support faculty research. These grants are the first UNC Research Opportunities Initiative (ROI) awards and were awarded to fa… Read more

Novocor will be a showcase company at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s 2015 Life Science Conference. Tony Voiers and Andrew DiMeo founded Novocor in 2013 to license their first medical de… Read more

Two teams of UNC and NC State students have been accepted into the 2015 Carolina Challenge. The first team, Nervana Biomedical, is comprised of NC State students Aaron Srivastava, Anna Komsa, Bryan Bu… Read more

Matthew Kossell, a senior in the BME undergraduate program, recently completed a yearlong internship at DSM Biomedical (formerly Kensey Nash Biomedical) in Exton, PA. During his time at DSM, Matt work… Read more

Dr. Huang’s post for NC State’s ongoing news series, “This Is What Science Looks Like at NC State,” was published January 20. In this great article she includes some features of her professional caree… Read more

The front page of January 16th’s News & Observer recognizes Dr. Zhen Gu for receiving a grant from the American Diabetes Association. With this $1.6 million dollar grant, Dr. Gu plans to create a… Read more

Christopher Giardina, an MD/Ph.D. student in the School of Medicine, has won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for his work with cochlear implants. Giardina, along with faculty… Read more

Four recent UNC graduates placed as finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, held at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Chase DuBois, Jorge Martinez-Blat, John Pam… Read more

Dr. Zhen Gu and his team of international researchers at NC State, UNC, and China Pharmaceutical University have developed a drug delivery technique using graphene strips as “flying carpets” to delive… Read more

Dr. Liliana Mellor was selected for a Career Development Award from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to continue studying the interactions between subchondral bone and cartilage in res… Read more

The Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research has awarded Kenan grants to five BME faculty members. Dr. Matthew Fisher received a Kenan grant for “In-vitro and In-vivo Characterizatio… Read more

Mahsa Mohiti-Asli was awarded first place in the post-doctoral fellow poster competition at NCTERMS 2014 for her poster titled “Large-Scale Production of Ibuprofen Loaded Nanofibers for Treatment of C… Read more