50 years of engineering better health for a boundless future
2017-18 marked the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Center for Bioengineering at UW, and 20 years since BioE was established as an academic department. Read about UW BioE’s achievements, leadership through the decades and notable dates in the anniversary article.
UW Bioengineering history
Learn how we have advanced bioengineering research, education, leadership and service, from our beginning as the UW Center of Bioengineering in 1967 to today.
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Stories of Impact
Bioengineers Connect: An evening of networking and inspiration
Bioengineers Connect, a UW Bioengineering initiative, brought together alumni and students for a networking dinner to share experiences and aspirations.
Impact Built Together
An update on bioengineering’s successes this academic year As the Department of Bioengineering is [...]
Research from the heart
Patrick Boyle, center, with bioengineering Ph.D. candidate Alexander Ochs, left, and junior Jamie [...]
UW News features Valerie Daggett’s groundbreaking Alzheimer’s diagnostic test
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a laboratory test that can measure levels of amyloid beta oligomers in blood samples.
Prof. Joan Sanders featured in UW Today
Written by: Kiyomi Taguchi and James Urton UW News - October 13, 2022 [...]
Hope and Healing
Reprinted here. Original story One researcher combats cancer with the help of UW [...]
News & Events
A Source of Hope
Gifts across UW’s College of Engineering from David Emmes will support graduate students, ensuring that we continue to make progress and they get the opportunity to thrive
Meinhold Receives SFB Student Research Award
Katherine Meinhold, who completed her UW Bioengineering PhD just last week, received the Student Award for Outstanding Research from the Society for Biomaterials
Sessions hosted in honor of Ratner at Society for Biomaterials meeting
Professor Buddy Ratner will be honored with two special sessions at this year’s Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting
Death by a Thousand Clicks
A multidisciplinary team with Master of Applied Bioengineering students at its core is building WiseMind.
Boyle named UW Bioengineering Vice Chair of Operations
Professor Patrick Boyle has been promoted to Vice Chair of Operations in the University of Washington’s Department of Bioengineering.
Meaningful Personally and to Society
PhD student Lily Torp earned a Kirchstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes [...]