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
MAB alumni launch biocoating company with Innovation Gap Fund support
A team of recent UW Master of Applied Bioengineering (MAB) graduates earned a grant [...]
Pilot Grants Support Studies of Sex-Based Differences in Muscle Biology
Three projects were selected to receive funding through the Center for Translational Muscle Research’s [...]
NIH Backs Olanrewaju Lab’s Build Faster, Low-cost HIV Medication Tests
A multidisciplinary team from across the University of Washington, led by Bioengineering’s Professor Ayokunle [...]
Wayne demonstrates new method of capturing the dynamic behavior of white blood cells
Macrophages, a particular type of white blood cell, can act in two distinct ways. [...]
From student to mentor
UW Bioengineering PhD student Arie Lin-Goldstein earned an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship after years [...]
New faculty, Beiyu Lin, to focus on AI in bioengineering
Professor Beiyu Lin joined UW Bioengineering in June as an assistant teaching professor, [...]