Undergraduate Ruby Lunde creates a Q-Munity for LGBTQ+ students
Outgoing co-presidents Ruby Lunde, left, and Aman Agarwal present at a Q-Munity meeting. [...]
Two BioE undergrads receive Population Health Recognition Awards
Sophomore Fang-Hua (Flora) Hu and senior Rachel Shi win honors.
PhD student Ciana López builds diversity support network
Meet Ciana López, co-founder of UW's Biomedical Diversity Community.
BioE faculty win FACET Awards, nominated by students
Faculty honored for their positive influence on student career development.
BioE’s Believe Sleeve advances to Sweet 16 in Dempsey Startup Competition
Judges choose students' non-invasive, low-cost tool for phantom limb pain.
Perseverance and discipline propel Bioengineering senior Claire Marion
Undergraduate balances BioE, varsity crew and volunteer work.
2022 UW Bioengineering Capstone Symposium
On May 23 BioE students will present their outstanding projects!
Ayokunle Olanrewaju receives UW NanoES Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure seed grant
Ayokunle Olanrewaju will apply microfluidic devices to monitor HIV meds.
Three BioE students named to 2022 Husky 100
Molly Mollica, Joey Liang and Suchitra Gopal: improving accessibility, equity.
Monocytes contribute to a pro-healing response in 40 µm diameter uniform-pore, precision-templated scaffolds
Nathan R Chan, Billanna Hwang, Buddy D Ratner, James D BryersJournal of Tissue Engineering and [...]
BioE’s Believe Sleeve among finalists in Dempsey Startup Competition
Applied Bioengineering team developing device to address phantom limb pain.
Albert Folch reveals world of tiny fluidics in new book, “Hidden in Plain Sight”
Folch explores successful technology behind many everyday devices.
Alexander Yan and Isiac Orr receive NSF Graduate Fellowships
Ph.D. student Alexander Yan (Yager lab) and senior Isiac Orr.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Wing Yun Au
Senior Wing Yun works on optogenetics in Azadeh Yazdan's lab.
Welcome new faculty Elizabeth Nance and Ayokunle Olanrewaju
UW BioE welcomes two new core faculty members.
Five BioE teams competing in finals of 2022 Health Innovation Challenge
Twenty-one innovative regional teams will compete for $37K in prizes.
BioE student Joy Chen receives UW Libraries Scholarship
The sophomore is also a volunteer ambassador with HuskyADAPT.
Meet Princess Imoukhuede
UW Bioengineering’s new department chair shares what drew her to the role and what’s [...]
Asst. Professor Kelly Stevens and Prof. Paul Kinahan named AIMBE Fellows
Honor rare in early career; represents top two percent bioengineers
Kelly Stevens receives $1.3M Allen Distinguished Investigator Award to study how liver develops
Need for treatments drives new technologies to grow human organs.
New Ph.D. grad Nuttada Panpradist ready for next challenge: faculty position
Postdoc credits adviser Barry Lutz as example of resilience, collaboration.
Fast, cheap test can detect COVID-19 virus’ genome without need for PCR
Lutz lab’s new low-cost, rapid COVID test is 97% accurate.
Meet Stephanie Baptiste, PharBE alumna and manager at Amgen
UW Master's of Pharmaceutical Bioengineering (PharBE) program alumna Stephanie Baptiste graduated in December 2019. [...]
Black Dots: High-Yield Traction Force Microscopy Reveals Structural Factors Contributing to Platelet Forces
Kevin M Beussman, Molly Y Mollica, Andrea Leonard, Jeffrey Miles, John Hocter, Zizhen Song, Moritz [...]
Ruikang Wang named editor of Biomedical Optics Express
The principal journal serving the biomedical optics community.
Gain-of-function cardiomyopathic mutations in RBM20 rewire splicing regulation and re-distribute ribonucleoprotein granules within processing bodies
Aidan M Fenix, Yuichiro Miyaoka, Alessandro Bertero, Steven M Blue, Matthew J Spindler, Kenneth K [...]
UW Bioengineering eNews | December 2021
Recent news highlights for UW BioE alumni and friends.
Imaging method captures deep layers of collagen in 3D
Non-invasive method may help detect heart attacks, improve image-guided surgery.
Precision-engineered porous, flexible grafts promote healing, reduce scarring
First vascular graft biomaterial with tuned mechanical properties, healing optimized.
Eric Chudler’s BRAIN photo featured in 2022 NIH calendar
Photo selected for NIH's “Show Us Your BRAINs!” contest calendar.
Discovery and Characterization of Spike N-Terminal Domain-Binding Aptamers for Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection
Nataly Kacherovsky, Lucy F. Yang,Ha V. Dang, Emmeline L. Cheng, Ian I. Cardle, Dr. Alexandra [...]
UW spinout gets $14.9M boost from NIH for COVID-19 rapid test
Low-cost, PCR-equivalent rapid molecular test developed in Barry Lutz's lab.
Princess Imoukhuede named new chair of UW Bioengineering
Dr. Imoukhuede joins UW from Washington University in St. Louis.
Azadeh Yazdan receives $3.2M to study optogenetics to precisely rewire brain networks, treat stroke
Yazdan's neurotechnology research targets neural connections to heal the brain.
Neuroengineer Amy Orsborn part of new NSF institute harnessing AI
Orsborn building algorithms that detect or predict real-time neural patterns.
Two BioE graduates receive scholarships to study global health
Alton Cao and Amanda Nguyen will each study in Japan.
Nancy Allbritton receives 2021 Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award
Dr. Allbritton honored Oct. 7 in Orlando, Fla.
Pharmacologic therapy for engraftment arrhythmia induced by transplantation of human cardiomyocytes
Charles Murry, Rong Tian, colleagues find approach suppresses engraftment arrhythmia.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Laura Lyu
Undergrad JEDI volunteer plans for dental school after BioE degree.
BioE alum wins global health fellowship
Josh Coyle working on infant breathing monitor in Houston; Malawi.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Marissa Shumaker
Active volunteer and mentor aims for medical school.
Ratner, UW team win prize for artificial kidney system
This is the Center for Dialysis Innovation’s third KidneyX award.
HUMANS Of BIOENGNEERING: Osvaldo Arias
UW Bioengineering undergraduate student Osvaldo Arias is a junior currently doing research in the Stayton [...]
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Jamison Siebart
Jamison Siebart, who hails from Uniontown, Penn., is going into his senior year as a [...]
$3.9M NIH and Keck grants back Stevens lab research on 3D liver printing, regrowth
Scaling up 3D printed tissues; studying mechanical properties in regeneration.
Stevens named to National Academies New Voices cohort
Kelly Stevens to provide new perspectives to National Academies.
Hope and Healing
Reprinted here. Original story One researcher combats cancer with the help of UW [...]
Spatially resolved cellular model built of developing mouse
Stevens lab and colleagues’ sci-Space technique can map embryo development.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Luke Thurber
Luke Thurber is a Husky through and through. From Edmonds, Wash., Luke received his bachelor's [...]
UW Bioengineering eNews | June 2021
Recent news highlights for UW BioE alumni and friends.