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...
Doctoral Student Anil Thota Won The College of Business Datathon
A Machine Vision AI Powered Wearable Device For Maintaining Social Distancing and Contact Tracing First Place Winners – $1,000 ScholarshipAnil Thota and Maojun ZhaoPresentation Topic: COVID-Defender – Machine Vision AI Powered Wearable Device for Maintaining...
On Becoming a Biomedical Engineer
High School student, Alejandro Jackson, shared his experience of the BME Summer Research InternshipThe Biomedical Engineering Department at FIU offers high school students the opportunity to apply for a Summer Research Internship to engage in BME study. In the summer...
Dr. Subrata Saha, courtesy professor in CEC BME, awarded Fellow of Sigma Xi distinction
Congratulations to Subrata Saha, courtesy professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University and affiliate professor at the University of Washington, on being awarded Fellow of Sigma Xi distinction as part of the inaugural cohort...
Ranu Jung Ph.D., Professor, and Chair of the BME Department was welcomed as a member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society
Ranu Jung Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the BME Department, was anonymously nominated to be part of the recognized scientific community, Sigma Xi. Dr. Jung was appointed with full membership and had an induction ceremony through an online meeting where she pledged to...
Former Ph.D. Student iian Black Granted New Patent on his Dissertation Research: “Directional-Specific Extraneural Recording Device”
Never give up. Always believe in yourself.iian Black graduated with his Doctorate Degree in December of 2019 after successfully presenting his dissertation work, which described a device he had been working on for more than three years during his Biomedical Engineer...
BME Associate Professor, Sharan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., was awarded an NSF Partnership for Innovation – Technology Translation Grant
Sharan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant. According to NSF, the PFI-TT grant offers researchers the opportunity to transform new knowledge into societal benefits through...
Jessica Molina Wins Outstanding BME Undergraduate Student for the Spring 2020 Class
During her time here at FIU, Jessica Molina has grown into an academically-driven leader in STEM. An early-childhood diagnosis of a rare disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, drove her passion for STEM and, ultimately, her motivation to contribute to the scientific...