Category: Awards
January 2022 – Ally Thorson receives Lucas Scholarship Award! Congrats Ally!
March 1, 2022
The program was named to honor UNC’s Biomedical Engineering Department founding chair, Dr. Carol Lucas, and also to recognize her contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.
Jasmine King Receives a Prestigious EII $25K Grant!
April 15, 2021
Congrats Jasmine on this terrific achievement!
Isabella Young Receives a Prestigious NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Award & Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation!
April 9, 2021
Congrats Isabella!!!
Carolina Awarded $2.91 Million to Create New Ultra-long-acting HIV Drug Delivery Implant
November 6, 2019
HIV clinical trials have shown that the protective efficacy of daily antiretroviral drugs for the prevention of HIV transmission correlates with adherence – whether an uninfected person takes the prescribed medication at proper times. But nonadherence is a major roadblock toward decreasing the spread of HIV. One solution to the adherence problem is to make drug delivery less frequent but no less effective.