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The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is an academic department co-located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University and was established on December 1, 2003, linking the School of Medicine at UNC-CH to the College of Engineering at NC State. At NC State, we currently offer a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a graduate minor. At UNC-CH, we offer the BME concentration in the Applied Sciences undergraduate degree program. On both campuses, we offer joint MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering. The department has administrative offices on both campuses (NCSU: 4130 Engineering Building III; UNC-CH: 152 MacNider Hall).

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BME Faculty Proposal Selected to receive funding for three faculty positions from the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program
Last September NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson launched a faculty hiring initiative, the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence program. He set aside $5 million to partner with NCSU academic colleges to bring either individual scholars or clusters up to 3 faculty to campus in strategically important areas; with an emphasis given to attracting scholars with diverse disciplinary skills representing more than one academic department and preferably college. The Chancellor solicited groups of faculty to propose strategic areas for hire. BME core faculty member, Elizabeth Loboa, along with her BME affiliate collaborators Kyle Mathews (Clinical Sciences), Jorge Piedrahita (Molecular Biomedical Sciences), Behnam Pourdeyhimi (Associate Dean, COT), and Richard Wysk (Industrial and Systems Engineering) submitted a proposal titled “Translational Regenerative Medicine Initiative - From Bench to Clinics.” This proposal has been selected to receive funding for three positions. Over 70 Faculty Excellence proposals from faculty in all 10 NCSU colleges were submitted and 17 were selected for funding in 12 cluster areas in this round. The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering congratulates this team for their achievement and looks forward to the outstanding BME related faculty who will be recruited and supported as a result of their effort!
 
BME affiliates design, build, and implant artificial knee in Cat cancer survivor.
BME affiliates Dr. Ola Harrysson and Dr. Denis Marcellin-Little design, build, and implant artificial knee in Cat cancer survivor.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/26/1807099/cat-10-and-cancer-free-to-get.html