ASEMFL Rising Stars application portal is open. Deadline to apply is August 1, 2025. For exceptional assistant professors or equivalent in industry/business in the state of Florida. www.asemfl.org/rising-stars...

The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) Annual Meeting is a premier event, open to everyone, and provides a valuable networking platform for junior colleagues. The detailed agenda will be posted on the website soon. Please save the date (Nov 7-8, 2025).

Introducing ASEMFL Associate Membership. This is for up-and-coming leaders in science, engineering, and medicine who are associate professors or early full professors, or equivalent rank in industry or government. Nominees must live or work in Florida.

Please mark your calendars! The Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) will have its 5th Annual Meeting on Nov. 7-8, 2025, in Orlando, FL. Anyone is welcome to attend, including trainees. This is a fantastic conference!

Kudos to my UF Biomedical Engineering PhD student, Allison Campbell, and my postdoc, Dr. Gopal Agarwal, for exceptional oral presentations on development of spinal cord injury therapies at the Society of Biomaterials conference in Chicago.

Congratulations to our UF BME PhD student, Allison Campbell, who was selected for the UF T32 Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Program (NMPT), overseen by Drs. Fuller, Vandenborne, and Judge. Allison is researching injectable hydrogel/drug therapeutics for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Kudos, Allison!!

Proud of my trainees (Allison and Ethan) discussing their research on developing injectable therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) at UF Biomaterials Day 2025. @ufbme.bsky.social

The 3/14 deadline to finalize the FY2025 budget is fast approaching! ⌛ AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter (<1 min to send) for the scientific community to urge Congress to support our federal science agencies, including NIH, NSF, FDA, ARPA-H, CDMRP, and more 👇 takeaction.io/aimbe/suppor...

Great visit to University of Cincinnati BME and CHE departments. My former PhD student, Dr. Jon Nickels, is an associate professor there doing exceptional research on protein dynamics, focusing on simulating and understanding material and molecule behavior at the atomic scale.

Please widely share our statement and advocacy letter template with your colleagues. @lolauic.bsky.social @orssociety.bsky.social @termisam.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @aapmhq.bsky.social @ceschmidt2024.bsky.social @settonlab.bsky.social @tejaladesai.bsky.social @farsh-g.bsky.social

Take action now. NIH’s 15% indirect cost cap threatens research institutions, jobs, and innovation. Customize & send AIMBE’s advocacy letter to urge Congress to stop this harmful policy. Your voice matters!

AIMBE has posted a public statement on the impact of federal policy changes on biomedical research: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... Above, we have also developed an advocacy letter for members of the medical & biological engineering community to send to their congressional representatives on this matter.