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....
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson and Ph.D. Student, Valentina Dargam, received an NSF I-Corps award
The National Science Foundation granted an I-Corps award to professor and CURE program director, Dr. Joshua Hutcheson, and Ph.D. student Valentina Dargam for their work on "AI-based Heart Sound Screening for Early-Stage Heart Disease." This I-Corps project is based on...
Anibal Morales selected as the BME Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Graduate
FIU is an Opportunity Provider.Anibal Morales, driven by his grandfather's cardiovascular condition, felt enormously interested in heart transplants, artificial hearts, and all the world surrounding something so familiar to him. He knew Biomedical Engineering was the...
Dr. Ranu Jung named a 2020 Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
Ranu Jung, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars Chair in Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). The BMES is the professional society for...