The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) at University of Pennsylvania is the undergraduate professional society for the bioengineering department dedicated to exposing students to bioengineering outside of academia. We are the liaison between the faculty and the students; we convey problems and concerns in both directions. BMES also sponsors social events for the students to become acquainted with one another outside of the classroom.
The Biomedical Engineering Society at Penn will be holding an Animal Shelter Donation Drive between 4/10 to 4/20. Please help donate supplies to Main Line Animal Rescue and help animals in need! This is a competition between all majors in Engineering, and the winning major receives a reception! Winners and reception date will be announced on 4/23. There will be a box for each major designated for animal shelter donations; more information on our Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/290109864397090/
Are you interested in graduate school? Are you considering applying soon? Then stop by on April 19th from 5-6pm in Levine 307! The Graduate Association of Bioengineers (GABE) will have a Graduate School Panel for "What is Graduate School?" and will provide some preliminary information on what to keep in mind when applying for graduate school. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from graduate students and to ask any questions you may have! Pizza will be provided.
BMES and GABE would like to invite you to join us for a casual sit-down dinner (catered by Greek Lady) with your fellow undergrads and graduate students to ask questions, have fun, and learn more about life as a grad student! Please RSVP here.
Please join us on Tuesday, January 31st at 6pm in Greenberg Lounge for a Bioengineering Talks with Alumni (BETA) Event sponsored by BMES! Pizza will be served - we hope to see you there! Our speaker will be BE Alumni, Dr. Tina Kramer Garyantes. Dr. Garyantes is a Senior Director at Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, currently responsible for an internal biotech responsible for exploring chemical diversity via high throughput chemical and biotransformations and is working to spin out this endeavor as an independent biotech. She has worked at Sanofi for 11 years in a variety functions including global responsibility for assay development and high throughput screening, phenotypic screening, image based screening as well as with both the Fibrosis and Oncology therapeutic areas. She and her team have been leaders in numerous assay and screening techniques such as the first published image-based screen, ion channels, lipid enzymes, and routine implementation of 1536 well screening. Before joining Sanofi-Aventis, Dr. Garyantes’s work was in the chemistry division of Merck & Co., were she gained recognition for her invention of the virtual well plates which married microfluidics, material sciences, biology and microtiter plates. She was awarded the 2002 PerkinElmer Life Sciences International Award for Innovation in HTS, and the system was licensed to Becton Dickenson.
She has a broad scientific base, having worked in biotech and diagnostics before pharmaceuticals, and having experience in engineering, nanotechnology, molecular biology, cell biology, and biophysics. She has worked in chemotaxis, neuronal signaling, cryopreservation of blood, metal plating, tertiary oil recovery and even designed and delivered an instrument to the Mayo Clinic for fine structure analysis of DNA.
She holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Caltech and a BSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic and professional honors and board memberships include: Scientific Advisory Board member for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and for Cytonome; Board Member of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences; Advisor to NCI, NIMH, Corning Corp. and Matrical; and she is a 2008 Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research Award winner from the NJBRA.
Confused about what courses to take? Overwhelmed with BE requirements, interesting electives, and other academic opportunities like minors and dual-majors? Come to Raisler Lounge on Friday, January 20th at 12-2PM and ask questions to the BMES board about course scheduling and other planning. The board consists of Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors that have plenty of diverse experience. The setting will be casual, so come by and have pizza and chat about classes and anything else academic that's on your mind. It's also a great opportunity to ask your fellow classmates what they're planning for the Spring semester.
BE Undergraduate Advisor, Kacy Cross, will also be attending to answer your questions! Come and meet her and ask questions about BE requirements and registration.