BME Graduate Student, Joseph Chue-Sang, awarded the SPIE Student Travel Grant
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,...
Shuliang Jiao’s Retinal Imaging Technology Featured by Medical News and the Review of Ophthalmology
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...
FIU BME Researchers highlighted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering January Edition
January 20, 2016- Research in the Neuronal Mass Dynamics (NMD) Lab at FIU was highlighted this month in a special issue of the IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering. In this special issue, the IEEE editorial board recognizes articles from researchers around the...
Dr. Jorge Riera-Diaz receives U.S. patent for electroencephalogram electrode unit for small animals and measurement system
January 7, 2016- Department of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor, Jorge Riera-Diaz, was granted a U.S. patent for the development of an electroencephalogram electrode unit for small animals and measurement system. The device, known as “The Riera High-Density...
Anuradha Godavarty’s Hand-Held Optical Scanner Featured by Several Media Outlets
Anuradha Godavarty, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received tremendous recognition this past week for her patented design of a hand-held optical probe based imaging system with 3-D tracking facilities and the device’s potential impact on breast...
5th Annual Graduate Research Day
On October 23rd, the department of Biomedical Engineering at FIU hosted the 5th Annual Graduate Research Day as part of the Wallace H. Coulter Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. The event featured the research of several of FIU BME’s graduate...
SPIE Features Research by Dr. Jessica Ramella-Roman
Research conducted by Jessica Ramella-Roman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, was recently featured by the international society for optics and photonics, SPIE. The article, titled, “Monitoring hypertrophic...
5th Annual Graduate Research Day – October 23, 2015
Join us this Friday, October 23rd for the 5th Annual Graduate Research Day! The day will highlight our outstanding graduate student research projects and seminars from FIU BME Alumnus, Brad Fernald and Dr. Aydogan Ozcan from UCLA.
FIU Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates Shine at FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference and MARC U*STAR & MBRS RISE Mini-Symposium
Congratulations to Josue Santana for winning the first place in the best poster category and the third place in the oral presentation category at the FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference. His presentation, “Modeling the Mechanical Effects of Low Magnitude...
Highlights from 2015-2016 Wallace H. Coulter Seminar Series Speaker, Kevin Garrison
The 2015-2016 Wallace H. Coulter Seminar Series got off to an exciting start with guest speaker, Kevin Garrison from Garrison’s Prosthetic Service, Inc. Garrison, an amputee himself, is an accomplished author and researcher in the field of prosthetics. Garrison...
Neural computer interface restores movement by helping the spinal cord rewire after injury
In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Jacob McPherson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, introduces a new therapy that seeks to help the nervous system...
Dr. Ranu Jung and the Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory partner with the Combat Wounded Veterans Foundation
Swimming in a pool or in the ocean is a popular way for people to spend a summer day, a past time many of us take for granted, but not lower limb amputees who struggle to find prostheses that allow them to efficiently swim in the water. Prosthetists Arlene Gillis and...