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rehabilitation research research rehabilitation expert joinstheteam expert BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL A pioneering A 10 at the at UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA // FLORIDA FALL 2017 FALL 16 18 20 Getting a GRiP on What a Merging tissue prosthetic design difference engineering with 15 years make electronics EXPERIENTIAL UF BME IS BUILDING EDUCATION Engineering Innovation and SUCCESSFUL Leadership Institutes provide: CLINICAL IMMERSION • Courses and certificates offered TOMORROW’S LEADERS Formal clinical immersion by leaders in industry and military educational opportunities forge partnerships between • Nationally acclaimed cross- students and clinicians disciplinary, industry- based senior design experience BY LEVERAGING STATEWIDE ENTREPRENEURIAL EXTENSION COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Gainesville is a local hub of talent, Innovation Stations provide ITS COMPREHENSIVE innovation and opportunity. workforce development, It is home to more tech talent and tech pipelines, incubators per capita than and K-12 initiatives. any other U.S. city. I N N O V A T I O N E C O S Y S T E M NEW INNOVATIVE STRONG INDUSTRY COLLISION SPACE PARTNERSHIPS • Advanced bio-manufacturing • Department-level formal & prototyping labs industry engagement events UNIQUE • Guest lectures by CO-LOCALIZATION • Freshman design labs and NEW INNOVATIVE industry members flipped classroom space • Many local internship Physical co-localization • Collision spaces COLLISION SPACE opportunities with top-ranked health to promote sciences and hospitals collaboration Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence, Opening 2019 8 News & Notables Dear UF BME Friends & Family, Welcome to the 4th issue of CrossLink, the annual magazine of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Robotics in Motion: Florida. A pioneering rehabilitation research expert joins the team I am honored to showcase the amazing accomplishments and talent of our department, college and university. This issue is particularly focused on innovation in research, education and our partnerships, including community 10 engagement. In this issue, we highlight novel research on neuromuscular control over prosthetic devices, ranging from exoskeletons and augmented control over walking from our new faculty member, Dr. Daniel Ferris, to an innovative merger of tissue engineering and electronics in DARPA-funded research to coax axon growth into electronic devices for improved upper limb prosthetic designs. As we continue to strive for more experiential learning for our students, we are 14 Experiential partnering more closely with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s New Faculty Leadership and Innovation Institutes. These institutes have continued to Learning: exponentially grow their unique interdisciplinary courses, modules and 16 UF BME’s cell certificate offerings on topics such as project management, professionalism, Getting a GRiP on and tissue entrepreneurship, persuasive communications, divergent thinking, innovation, Prosthetic Design leadership and risks in technology development. Our students are building 15 engineering lab a unique portfolio of skills that will enable them to be more effective leaders in their future careers. And, soon, these institutes will be housed in the new Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence – a state-of-the-art facility devoted to innovation by featuring creative collision spaces to promote collaboration, student maker/prototyping labs and a telepresence facility to build 21st century communication and networking skills. A publication of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Innovation goes beyond the walls of the university as our students and faculty Biomedical Engineering at the continue to develop lasting partnerships with the community through outreach. University of Florida 19 Here, we highlight some amazing students who have given their time to create What a Difference DEAN, HERBERT Student 3-D printed prosthetic and assistive devices for young children in need, as WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF Highlight 15 Years Make part of the BME-sponsored student organization, GRiP (Generational Relief in ENGINEERING Prosthetics). Cammy Abernathy DEPARTMENT CHAIR 18 Please also read the stories about our current and former students - an alumnus Christine E. Schmidt who is changing patient outcomes with his work at the FDA and a student who is EDITORS improving the therapeutic outcome of osteoarthritis drugs. Candi Crimmins Sommer Green Thank you for being a supporter of UF BME! We hope you enjoy this issue of EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS CrossLink, and continue to keep us updated on your own endeavors. And, April Frawley please stop by to visit when you are in Gainesville! Laura Mize CONTRIBUTING Sincerely, PHOTOGRAPHERS 22 Lyon Duong Alumni Highlight Merging Jesse Jones Tissue COVER ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN Engineering Liquid Creative 23 Christine E. Schmidt New Faculty with Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair and Department Chair Fellowships 20 Electronics UF BME Faculty Snapshot Kyle D. Allen David R. Gilland Brandi K. Ormerod Associate Professor & Associate Professor & Director, Blanka Sharma Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Assistant Professor Undergraduate Coordinator BME Graduate Student Diversity and Undergraduate Studies & Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., University of North Carolina Professional Development J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow Nanomedicine, stem cells, Molecular imaging, instrumentation Ph.D., University of British Columbia Ph.D., Rice University biomaterials, tissue engineering and algorithm development using Engineered stem cell and immunomodulatory Novel strategies to diagnose and treat and targeted drug/gene delivery degenerative joint diseases PET and SPECT strategies for brain repair and aging studies Cherie Stabler Stephen H. Arce Aysegul Gunduz Associate Professor & Assistant Professor & Kevin J. Otto Lecturer Associate Professor Associate Chair for Graduate Studies J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow Ph.D., University of Florida Ph.D., Arizona State University Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D., University of Florida Bioinstrumentation, biodesign and Neural engineering, device-tissue Biomaterials, cell encapsulation, Human neuroscience, neuromodulation, BME senior design laboratories interfaces and neurostimulation regenerative medicine, controlled neuroprostheses and neurorehabilitation release systems and diabetes Gregory Hudalla Assistant Professor & Hans van Oostrom Wesley E. Bolch Edward Phelps Associate Professor & Director, Institute Professor J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow Assistant Professor for Excellence in Engineering Education Ph.D., University of Florida Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D., Eindhoven University of Technology Dosimetry, computational medical Nanomaterials engineered to direct immune Cell and tissue regeneration, islet biology, Human physiologic simulation to enhance physics and dose assessment responses for disease prophylaxis, implants diabetes and immunopathology noninvasive patient monitoring and education and immunotherapies Mingzhou Ding Distinguished Professor & Benjamin G. Keselowsky Parisa Rashidi Lin Yang Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D., Washington State University Ph.D., Rutgers University Ph.D., University of Maryland Biomaterials and controlled release Biomedical data science, pervasive health Imaging informatics, biomedical image Cognitive neuroscience, multivariate systems for vaccines, immunotherapies and clinical informatics analysis, machine learning, computer signal processing and multimodal and implants vision and computer-aided diagnosis neural imaging Jon P. Dobson Peter McFetridge Carlos Rinaldi Professor Associate Professor & Charles A. Stokes Term Professor & Interim Chair, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Tim Brahm Term Professor Department of Chemical Engineering ETH-Zurich Ph.D., University of Bath Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Magnetic micro- and nanoparticle-based Naturally inspired biomaterials for biologically Nanomedicine, cancer nanotechnology, magnetic biomedical applications functional implants and organ regeneration nanoparticles and transport phenomena UF BME Ruogu Fang Sarah Rowlinson Collaborative Walter Lee Murfee Lecturer Assistant Professor Associate Professor Ph.D., Clemson University Ph.D., Cornell University Ph.D., University of Virginia Cell and tissue engineering, engineering Community Big data analytics, brain informatics Cell dynamics, microcirculation, angiogenesis, education research and online engineering and medical image analysis lymphangiogenesis and neurogenesis education 25 Core Faculty 40+ Affiliate Faculty Daniel Ferris Christine E. Schmidt Robert W. Adenbaum Professor Jennifer A. Nichols Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Centers & Institutes Assistant Professor (Jan. 2018) 30+ & Senior Associate Chair Chair & Department Chair Ph.D., Northwestern University Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., University of Illinois Biomechanics, musculoskeletal modeling, 16 Colleges Biomechanics, neuromechanical control, Biomaterials for neural tissue predictive simulation and medical imaging locomotion and prosthetics regeneration and neural interfacing 5 Hospitals 6 // CrossLink Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida // 7 Distinguished Leadership Seminar Series Major