KEVIN OTTO, PH.D., PROFESSOR AND SENIOR ASSOCIATE CHAIR IN THE J. CRAYTON PRUITT FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, AND MARK ORAZEM, PH.D., DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

ENGINEERING THE HI-FI BRAIN

September 19, 2022

A Public-Private UF Collaboration Seeks to Optimize Clinical Outcomes by Pumping Up the Volume Through Novel Neuroprotheses Fabrication Every audiophile long ago celebrated the quantum leap from stereo to multichannel for their immersive listening experience. Now, through a $4.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two researchers in the Herbert Wertheim College […]

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Fan Ren, Ph.D.

UF researchers help develop highly accurate, 30-second coronavirus test

April 7, 2022

by Bill Levesque With any highly infectious disease, time can be a killer. It is crucial to get a test result for a pathogen quickly, lest someone continue in their daily lives infecting others. And delays in testing have undoubtedly exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the most accurate COVID-19 test often takes 24 hours or […]

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Minghan Xian

COVID-19 testing method gives results within 1 second

June 1, 2021

Superfast, portable COVID-19 testing method detects the virus much faster than currently available methods. Researchers from the University of Florida, and Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University have developed a rapid and sensitive testing method for COVID-19 biomarkers. Their findings were recently published in the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B. The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear […]

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Yeongseon Jang, Ph.D.

Jang Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop Synthetic Protocells

March 25, 2021

Yeongseon Jang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award. With this award, Dr. Jang aims to develop a synthetic protocell constructed of protein building blocks through tuning their self-assembly behavior. “Synthetic versions of protocells that mimic primitive cells assembled from biomacromolecules can serve as simple, […]

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