Biomedical Engineering Faculty Dr. Tsoukias receives $2.6 million NIH grant for brain disorder research
Nikolaos Tsoukias, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering (BME) at Florida International University, has been awarded a $2.6 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) – R01 grant as a principal investigator. The five-year grant aims to examine...
Biomedical Engineering Faculty elected to the level of Senior Member of the Optical Society of America
Please join me in Congratulating Dr. Jessica Ramella-Roman, director of the Medical Photonics Laboratory, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing for being elected to the level of Senior Member of OSA (Optical Society...
Biomedical Engineering Faculty awarded a new research grant from the Florida Heart Research Foundation
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson, directs the Cardiovascular Matrix Remodeling Laboratory. Dr. Hutcheson is also an active member of the Biomolecular Sciences Institute at FIU. Research in Dr. Hutcheson’s lab includes the discovery of cellular and molecular mechanisms of aortic...
Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Domingo Gomez de Gimeranez
On Friday, May 7, 2021as part of the “Celebrating Biomedical Engineers” lecture series and through the generous support of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Endowment, the Department of Biomedical Engineering presented a program celebrating the First Cuban...
Biomedical Engineering Faculty Named FIU Top Scholar
Since 2008, select faculty have been recognized with the FIU Top Scholar award for their significant achievements in research, creative activities, and teaching categories. President Mark B. Rosenberg and Provost Kenneth G. Furton are honoring a few faculty members as...
Ranu Jung Receives Honorary Doctorate from Aalborg University, Denmark
Congratulations to Ranu Jung, professor, and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholar Chair in Biomedical Engineering, for being awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University in Denmark (AAU). Jung brings new...
Inaugural LatinX BME Symposium
A Chance to Spotlight Growing Science CommunityFor attendees and presenters alike, the first ever LatinX Biomedical Engineering (BME) Symposium was a welcome forum to share science, build community, and discuss issues specific to the LatinX experience in BME....
Graduate Research Day Spring 2021
GRADUATE RESEARCH DAY SHOWCASE & COMPETITION On Graduate Research Day student researchers get the stage. It is a day long opportunity for graduate students to gain valuable professional development experience, network with industry partners, present research, and...
Professor Ramella-Roman receives patent for optical technologies system to identify preterm labor
Jessica Ramella-Roman developed a system that uses light to examine the composition and structure of cervical tissue.FIU's Jessica Ramella-Roman recently received a patent for using optical technologies to identify preterm labor. Preterm labor, which occurs when a...
FIU biomedical engineering professor working on impactful innovations in medical imaging named National Academy of Inventors Senior Member
FIU Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anuradha Godavarty, whose research and innovations have significantly advanced optical imaging technologies, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Members. NAI Senior Members are faculty,...
Ph.D. Graduate Brittany Gonzalez Appointed as a Postdoctoral Associate at FIU
Brittany Gonzalez, who just received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from FIU this fall 2020, has been appointed as a postdoctoral associate at FIU. At her new appointment, Dr. Gonzalez will expand and continue her investigation on the work she completed during...
Biomedical Engineering Student Wins First Place at Annual Conference for Society of Women Engineers
At 7 years old, Allison Martinez pinched the legs of her grandmother, who was confined to a wheelchair, to see if she could get a reaction. Martinez’s grandmother had suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident. At an internet café in Honduras, I [had] read about...