77 Pounds of Non-perishable Food Items Collected and Donated to FIU’s Food Pantry
While most people were looking forward to the 2-weeks of stress-free relaxation that arrives every Holiday season, this Fall 2021, students at Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB) wanted to use the spirit of the holidays to give back to our fellow FIU Panthers by kick-starting a...
Paralyzed Biomedical Engineering Student Aldo Amenta Walks Across Stage For His Master’s
Aldo Amenta became paralyzed several years ago just as he was starting his career at Florida International University. Undeterred, he continued his studies and in 2018 walked across the commencement stage using an exoskeleton to receive his bachelor’s degree from...
Fall 2021 Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Project Expo & Competition
Congratulations Seniors! As senior Biomedical Engineering students at Florida International University, you have come to the end of an incredible journey. Your Senior Design Projects are a reflection of your efforts and your capstone undergraduate experience. Your...
Biomedical Engineering Faculty Dr. Danziger receives a one-year, $872,000 successful second-stage transaction grant
The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what information to deliver and sending messages to organs to take action. At...
Dr. Sharan Ramaswamy Appointed Equity Advisor for The College of Engineering and Computing
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Sharan Ramaswamy has been appointed as the new incoming Equity Advisor for College of Engineering & Computing. Equity Advisors provide diversity guidance to colleges. The Equity Advisor program, which designates one faculty...
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2021 Annual Meeting
This year, the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) was held right in our backyard on October 6-9, 2021. The professional society for bioengineers and biomedical engineers descended upon the city of theme parks, Orlando, Florida, where faculty...
The BME 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Celebration
The day began with a magnificent seminar presented by Dr. Mary P. McDougall, from Texas A&M University, who presented a magnificent seminar entitled ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY followed by the...
BME Post-Doctoral, Dr. Hooi Hooi Ng, named Florida Heart Researcher of the Year
A postdoctoral associate working collaboratively in FIU’s Biomolecular Sciences Institute has earned the award for her research on calcification of blood vessels.FIU researcher Hooi Hooi Ng has been named the 2021 "Stop Heart Disease" Florida Heart Researcher of the...
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...