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...
Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Project Expo Fall 2020
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 work...
BME Post-Doctoral, Dr. Hooi Hooi Ng, was granted the AHA’s Elaine W. Raines Early Career Investigator Award
The American Heart Association selected Dr. Hooi Hooi Ng to receive the award that recognizes early-career investigator partners who perform high-quality research in arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. Ng received a grant from the Herbert Wertheim...
Undergraduate BME senior, Allison Martinez, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the National Annual Vascular Biology Conference
The North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) recognized the poster presentation of CURE Researcher at the Vascular Physiology and Biotransport Lab student, Allison Martinez, as one of the most outstanding ones during the Annual Vascular Biology...
Researchers look to control organ function through new computational model
Engineering professor and researchers across the nation use electric stimulation to “hijack” nerves and improve people’s lives. The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the...
Ranu Jung and Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory (ANSL) team named 2020 Cade Prize Winner
It is with great Panther Pride that we wish to congratulate Ranu Jung, eminent scholar professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Adaptive Neural System Lab (ANSL) team for being named a 2020 Cade Prize winner. Under the direction of...
BME students talk about their Summer CURE-REU Program Experience
The Coulter Undergraduate Research Excellence (CURE) Program has supported generations of our BME students to cultivate and strive for research success, and this summer was not the exception. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, several summer internships and opportunities...
The BME Department successfully celebrated the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Day
» Download the Undergraduate Research Day Abstract BookletAn encouraging seminar presented by Dr. Martine Laberge, Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University, the innovative researches of 27 undergraduate students, and a panel discussion with the BME...
Biomedical engineering doctoral students win prestigious NIH research fellowship
Valentina Dargam and Kevin Leiva will take part in an NIH program that focuses on both research and mentoring in order to increase representation within health-related research.Two students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering recently won a National...
Dr. Jung Develops Prosthetic Hand Invention Nominated Cade Prize Finalist
Dr. Ranu Jung and her teamwork in the lab to create a prosthetic hand. One FIU professor and her staff were nominated as 2020 Cade Prize finalists, inventing the first prosthetic hand that restores the sense of touch to its users. With a $50,000 prize at stake, Dr....