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Three BME Undergraduates Earn Senior Thesis Research Grants from UNC

Three Undergraduate Students at UNC have secured Senior Thesis Research Awards! Sneha Rao will be working with Dr. Paul Dayton, Vaibhav Hans with Dr. Jeff Macdonald, and Robert Hinson with Dr. Nancy A… Read more

Doctoral Student Stephen Tuin Wins Technical Merit Award from Industrial Advisory Board

Stephen Tuin, a doctoral student in Elizabeth Loboa’s Cell Mechanics Laboratory, has won the Technical Merit Award at the fall 2013 Industry Advisory Board meeting of the Nonwovens Cooperative Researc… Read more

Professor Greg Sawicki’s Research Cited in Nature

Dr. Greg Sawicki’s work was recently highlighted in the November 14th issue of Nature. This citation, from a journal in its 503rd volume of publication with a longstanding history of excellent scienti… Read more

Andrew DiMeo’s Spin-Out Novocor Selected as SEBIO’s EARLY/Stage Shootout Competition Winner!

Southeast BIO (SEBIO) held its Annual Investor & Partnering Forum early this month. In its 15th year, SEBIO’s forum has come to be known as the Southeast’s premier life sciences and medical techno… Read more

BME’s Dr. Jacqueline Cole is Part of an Interdisciplinary Team to Win One of NCSU’s Research and Innovation Seed Funding Awards!

Dr. Jacqueline Cole, as part of a collaborative team boasting members from five departments and two colleges at NC State, has won a Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Award from NCSU! RISF aw… Read more

Professors Ligler and Gu Win One of NCSU’s Research and Innovation Seed Funding Awards!

Congratulations to Professors Zhen Gu and Frances Ligler for their recent award by NCSU’s Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program. The NC State program was established to fund interdiscipl… Read more

Professor Hatice Ozturk Wins NSF’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM Award

Congratulations to Dr. Ozturk on her recent award from the National Science Foundation! In coordination with Alina Duca of the NCSU Math Department and Dianne Raubenheimer of Meredith College, Dr. Ozt… Read more

Paper Co-Authored by Matthew Fischer, PhD among Most Downloaded Papers from Tissue Engineering in 2013

BME’s newest Faculty Member Dr. Matthew Fischer, a member of the regenerative medicine cluster, was recently recognized by Tissue Engineering, for the success of his 2013 year in review article, which… Read more

Southeast BIO Investor & Partnering Forum to Showcase BME Spinout Company

Novocor, a BME Spinout company, is one of thirteen medical technology companies to highlight their product in the EARLY/state event at the 2013 Southeast Bio Investor & Partnering Forum this Novem… Read more

Ivanisevic Selected to Serve as Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Dr. Albena Ivanisevic, a faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering, will be serving as an associate editor of the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. The jour… Read more

Eight Undergraduates Named 2013-14 BME Abrams Scholars

Congratulations to this year’s eight Abrams Scholars who were selected from a very strong applicant pool of 28 BME undergraduates interested in guided laboratory research to enhance their undergraduat… Read more

BME Spinout – Augment Medical Awarded Grant from NC TraCS’s Carolina KickStart

Augment Medical, was among four local startups awarded ~$20,000 each in commercialization awards from Carolina KickStart, a service of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute… Read more