Karl Böhringer to direct UW Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems
UW has launched a new institute that aims to accelerate [...]
UW Bioengineering eNews | Fall/Winter 2017
In this issue: Anniversary Update | Faculty Awards & Honors [...]
New endowed scholarship established in honor of revered BioE administrator
This year, an anonymous UW Bioengineering alumna generously donated the required funding to establish a new endowed scholarship in honor of Kelli Jayn Nichols. Nichols served the BioE department from October 2000, until her retirement in June 2016 as Director of Academic Services.
Thomas Horbett receives 2018 Society for Biomaterials Founder’s Award
As a founding member of BioE's biomaterials research group, Professor Emeritus Thomas Horbett's work advanced the fields of protein adsorption and surface science.
Ph.D. student Charles Roco advances single-cell RNA sequencing with NIH, Fred Hutch grants
With Split-Pool Ligation-based Transcriptome sequencing, or SPLiT-seq, Charles Roco aims to address the affordability, accessibility and scalability of current single-cell RNA sequencing techniques.
Nuttada Panpradist presents OLA-SIMPLE HIV drug resistance test in South Africa
UW BioE Ph.D. candidate Nuttada Panpradist recently traveled to South Africa to present at the XXVI Internal Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies. The workshop, held Nov. 6-8, invited 200 delegates from around the world to discuss the causes, spread and burden of HIV drug resistance in low- and middle-income countries.