Snekha Rajasekaran plans to leverage her passion for medicine and social welfare to become a service-oriented physician-scientist, improving lives in Alabama and beyond.

Juhi Samal, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a recent recipient of the COMET™ from the Heersink School of Medicine Immunology Institute for her proposed ...

Khong, Coyne Named UAB’s Engineering Students of the Year at Annual ECOB Banquet On Tuesday, February 18, senior biomedical engineering student Georgianna Khong was named the School of Engineerin...

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is proud to announce the 2025 Pittman Scholars.

The UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering had a prominent presence at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2024 in November.

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Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance.

Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years.

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Engineering recently showcased its research at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) annual meeting, the world’s leading p...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) celebrated its annual Innovation Awards on October 11, 2024, recognizing outstanding i...

Chloe Naquin spent nine weeks in Puerto Rico studying the Cuban tree frog as part of the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

by Hannah BuckelewThe Translation of Biomedical Innovations to Clinical Practice Certificate Program completed its first successful cycle in 2024.

The NIH grant will support development of a BionanomatrixTM coating for an aneurysm-therapy flow diverter in the brain.

NSF Program Sends BME Undergrad to Puerto Rico for Summer Research Project Spending several weeks on a Caribbean island may sound like a nice way for a college student to unwind during a summer vac...

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by Hannah Buckelew Yajing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Basic and Translational Research and professor in the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a three-year $300,000 TPA g...

by Hannah BuckelewSeveral studies in vertebrates indicate that T-box proteins are important in regulating a multitude of cellular processes in development and disease across species.

by Hannah BuckelewChandlor Dobbs, an undergraduate senior in biomedical engineering, a member of UAB’s Honor College, and a participant in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program,...

by Hannah BuckelewFive faculty members and several trainees from the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), alongside others from the Department of Pathology and Cardiology, attended the a...

Nine University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been awarded NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium scholarships and fellowships.

UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office recognized 16 individuals in its eighth cohort of Institute for Leadership at a graduation ceremony on June 26, 2024.

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by Hannah BuckelewAlyson Goodwin, a sophomore biomedical engineering student, is a recipient of the Benjamin A.

by Hannah BuckelewThe eighth annual NIH Progenitor Cell Translation Consortium (PCTC) 2024 Cardiovascular Bioengineering (CVBE) Symposium was held May 22-25 at Houston Methodist Research Institute ...

by Hannah BuckelewThe UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is known for routinely tackling daunting health problems head-on and has been doing so for nearly 45 years.

Vidhi Patel, an undergraduate student who conducts research in the lab of Assistant Professor M.K.

by Hannah BuckelewSeniors in the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering gathered on April 19 to present their senior design projects in the Education and Engineering Complex.

UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office recently recognized 12 individuals in its fourth cohort of Sharing Authentically to Inspire and Lead (SAIL).

UAB Media Studies students learn how to make documentary films focusing on communities and issues they care about in a semester.