On February 19th, 2016, the department of Biomedical Engineering at FIU hosted the 6th Annual Undergraduate Research Day as part of the Wallace H. Coulter Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. The event featured the research of several of BME@FIU’s outstanding undergraduate students and also included a lecture from David Vorp, Professor and Associate Dean of […]

February 8, 2016- Department of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor, Chenzhong Li, was granted a U.S. patent for the invention “Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Based Sensing Devices and Methods for Real-time Analyte Secretion from Living Cells.” Li’s patent introduces new methods for the use of SPR technology that has the potential to change the ways clinicians […]

Congratulations to Joseph Chue-Sang, a BME graduate student and member of the Medical Photonics Laboratory, for being awarded the SPIE Student Travel Grant and selected to present two talks and one poster at this year’s SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, California. The conference is the largest laser and photonics event in North American […]

Shuliang Jiao, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and his work on a new retinal imaging technology was recently featured by prominent medical journals “Medical News” and the “Review of Ophthalmology.” Using optical coherence tomography (OCT), Jiao and a team of researchers from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute created a technology that images the light-sensitive protein […]