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 See [...]
Hope and Healing
Reprinted here. Original story One researcher combats cancer with the help of UW [...]
News & Events
A New Biosensing Tool for Cancer Research
Professor Elizabeth Wayne is developing a novel way of tracking cancer-fighting cells – and chalking up a series of professional recognitions as she does.
Combining at-home testing to manage inflammation-related diseases
Professor Paul Yager, an expert in low-cost point-of-care diagnostic technologies, and his team received $75,000 in support from the Innovation Gap Fund in June
A statewide footprint and a growing national scope
The 2024-2025 academic year brought a new collaboration between the Department of Bioengineering and AVELA
Immensely useful
PharBE alumnus Jake Gober helps clients make the most of their intellectual property and comes back to the Department of Bioengineering every year to lecture
An Unbridled Joy
Family, friends, and colleagues celebrate Professor “Sandy” Francis Spelman with a new endowment fund supporting graduate students.
Fighting thrombosis by targeting von Willebrand factor
UW Bioengineering researchers identify ways of turning off the function of a blood protein under conditions that may encourage dangerous clots