Elliott Dirr Wins the People’s Choice Award in The Sugar Science Pitch Competition

Congratulations to Elliott and team for winning the people’s choice award for a 3 minute pitch detailing the therapeutic potential of using targeted vagus nerve stimulation to treat type 1 diabetes.

Congratulations Elliott Dirr and team for their Bioelectronics in Medicine publication!

Designing a bioelectronic treatment for Type 1 diabetes: targeted parasympathetic modulation of insulin secretion was published on July 28th. It focuses on using electrical nerve stimulation to control pancreatic endocrine functions and ultimately control blood glucose.

Erynne San Antonio

Erynne San Antonio
Biomedical Engineering
esanantonio@ulf.edu

Erynne is a third year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is researching the electrical and electrochemical changes between the different counter-ion molecular weights of the polymer PEDOT:PSS.

Kathleen Yang

Kathleen Yang
Electrical Engineering
kathleen.yang@ufl.edu

Kathleen is a second year electrical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is currently studying voltage-induced structural changes of PEDOT:PSS, with neural electrode applications.

Dr. Otto AIMBE Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Otto for being elected as a 2020 AIMBE Fellow!

College of Medicine Research Poster Session

Jacob Chytil and Jamie Murbach both presented posters at the College of Medicine Research Poster Session

2020 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference

Erynne presented her work at the 2020 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers, FL.

Society for Neuroscience NCF chapter Conference 2020

Undergraduate students Renae and Ramya present their work at the SfN local chapter conference. They’ve been working with Ph.D. candidate Morgan Urdaneta.

CRRR Retreat 2020

Ian, Jamie, and Dr. Otto at the CRRR Retreat 2020