UW Bioengineering
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UW Bioengineering faculty embrace AI tools to enhance teaching and learning
Faculty are increasingly leveraging AI to streamline work, enhance research and help students understand and effectively use these powerful tools.
Events
Kelly Stevens receives the BMES 2024 Mid-Career Award
Congratulations to UW Bioengineering Associate Professor Kelly Stevens for being honored with the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2024 Mid-Career Award.
David Baker awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
David Baker—the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor of [...]
A successful partnership leads to early Alzheimer’s detection and treatment
Valerie Daggett, David and Nancy Auth Endowed Professor in [...]
Featured Publications
Image-Guided Treatment of Primary Liver Cancer in Mice Leads to Vascular Disruption and Increased Drug Penetration
Sara B. Keller, Dingjie Suo, Yak-Nam Wang, Heidi Kenerson, Raymond [...]
A ribonucleoprotein octamer for targeted siRNA delivery
Professor Xiaohu Gao and colleagues have created a new way to target prostate tumors that overcomes past challenges of designing effective drug delivery methods. This versatile nanocarrier design should offer opportunities for the clinical translation of therapies based on intracellularly acting biologics.
Mobile Phone Ratiometric Imaging Enables Highly Sensitive Fluorescence Lateral Flow Immunoassays without External Optical Filters
Professor Paul Yager's lab has created a method that enables optical-filter free mobile imaging for medical diagnostics, a first step towards enabling a new generation of highly sensitive, point-of-care fluorescence assays.
