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Video messages and graduate spotlights

Addressing a PPE shortage

When local hospitals risked running out of protective gowns, biomedical engineering students saved the day. Their designs are now being produced at rates reaching 10,000 per day.

Engineering proteins to block the virus

Professor Jonathan Sachs and team aim to develop and manipulate molecules that can prevent SARS CoV-2 from attaching to human cells.

Creating a COVID-19 simulator

Professor David Odde is creating a biophysical computer model that simulates COVID-19 on a molecular and cellular level, and tests therapies and vaccines computationally.

The case for data-driven science

In an opinion piece in the Hill, Professor Jonathan Sachs makes the case for sticking to the scientific process in the fight against COVID-19.

Give to COVID-19 research

Pioneering, high-impact research

Department research spans the full spectrum of biomedical engineering. And our faculty are leading the way in cardiovascular, neural, and cancer bioengineering.

This provides world-class opportunities for students in the lab and classroom.

Our research

Rendering of a human head including brain inside. Shows a device on the left side being applied to the head. Arrows indicate flow from ear to brain.

Student successes

The technical training of the BME program was superior, but it was the introduction to tissue engineering and translational research that equipped me with the appropriate tools to pursue my passion and enter this industry.

Getting a BME degree opens the door to all sorts of opportunities.

Dr. Jeff Ross, BME alumnus and CEO of Miromatrix, a biotechnology company dedicated to bioengineering whole organs

My decision to focus on bioengineering in graduate school was driven by the research I had a chance to participate in as an undergraduate. It completely fascinated me that biological processes could be described by equations. Observing a heart surgery in one of my BMEn courses lit my passion for cardiac research.

Dr. Anna Grosberg, BME alumna and assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine

It’s super rewarding to work on a device that could someday help people and increase their wellbeing. I didn’t think I’d be able to have this kind of industry experience this early in my graduate school career.

Claire Kaiser, BME PhD student

Completing my PhD opened doors for me to pursue my passion in the research end of R&D at Medtronic. My graduate work also kindled the creative inventor in me and taught me to first define the problem and then to identify the key questions to answer.

Dr. Cindy Clague, BME alumna and research director for Medtronic's Heart Valve Therapies business

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Addressing a PPE shortage

Engineering proteins to block the virus

Creating a COVID-19 simulator

The case for data-driven science

Pioneering, high-impact research

Bioinstrumentation and medical devices

Biomaterials and micro/nanofabrication

Biomechanics

Biomedical optics and imaging

Biomolecular, cellular, and tissue engineering

Cancer bioengineering

Cardiovascular engineering

Neural engineering

BME student receives prestigious Astronaut Scholarship

Faculty and student news roundup

Students design and produce gowns for local hospitals

Seniors showcase biomedical prototypes

Student successes