


Lab News!
July 2023
~High school students Anarelis Galvez and Arundhathi Arun from Terra Environmental Research Institute joined the lab for summer term.
May 2023
~Undergraduate student Maria Hernandez joined the CURE program as a trainee for Summer 2023
March 2023
~Ph.D. student Kacie Kalie won 1st place for her talk at the FIU BME Graduate Research Day (March 6th)
~Ph.D. students Daniela Leizaola, and Himaddri Shakhar Roy presented their research posters at the FIU BME Graduate Research Day (March 6th)
February 2023
~Undergraduate student Sydni Spencer presented her research poster at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), Miami, FL (Feb 18th)
January 2023
~Undergraduate students Waleed Abusaid and Syndi Spencer won the Coulter Undergraduate Research Excellence Award for Spring 2023.
December 2022
~Dr. Kevin Leiva graduated as the Outstanding Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering and Computing.
October 2022
~Two Non-provisional US patents were issued to Kacie Kaile and Dr. Godavarty in our Optical Imaging Laboratory.
~Ph.D. student Daniela Leizaola participated in the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
September 2022
~Undergraduate student Sydni Spencer won 3rd Place for her poster presentation at the FIU BME Undergraduate Research Day.
~Undergraduate students Noble Amadi, Faiza Nazir and Sydni Spencer presented their research posters at the FIU BME Undergraduate Research Day.
~Undergraduate students Noble Amadi, Sydni Spencer and Faiza Nazir were awarded the Coulter Undergraduate Research Award for Fall 2022.
August 2022
~Dr. Anuradha Godavarty was awarded an R01 by the NIH-NIBIB for her research on smartphone optical imaging technology.
July 2022
~Ph.D. student Kevin Leiva defended his PhD succesfully.
May 2022
~Undergraduate students Noble Amadi, Sydni Spencer and Faiza Nazir won the Dr. Norman R. Weldom Biomedical Engineering Internship.
March 2022
~Dr. Anuradha Godavarty was recently spotlighted by the FIU Magazine as an “Inspiring Inventor”.
September 2021
~Undergraduate students Alexander Trinidad, Mariel Chavez and Haniyeh Alirezael were awarded the Coulter Undergraduate Research award for Fall 2021.
May 2021
~Undergraduate students Alexander Trinidad, Isabella Gonzalez, Raquel Vega, Mariel Chavez and Haniyeh Alirezael were awarded the Dr. Norman R. Weldom Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship at FIU.
February 2021
~Dr. Anuradha Godavarty was honorably nominated as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors.
September 2020
~Ph.D. student Kevin Leiva was awarded with the very prestigious NIH F31 Fellowship by NIDDK for two years.