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Two Bioengineering PhD Students Compete at the UW Three Minute Thesis Competition
Join us in supporting two Bioengineering PhD students at the UW Three Minute Thesis Competition (UW 3MT®) on May 22nd.
Events
UW Bioengineering shines at the BMES 2024 annual meeting
The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting was a standout event for the UW Bioengineering community.
Promising research to study how a natural supplement can restore the function of an aging heart
Two UW professors are collaborating to study mitochondrial damage in the heart and treatment with the natural supplement urolithin A (UA).
Jennifer Davis to present 2024-25 Science in Medicine Lecture
Jennifer Davis, associate professor of Bioengineering, will present as part of the 2024-25 Science in Medicine speaker series.
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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 [...]
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.
Desktop-Stereolithography 3D-Printing of a Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Based Material with Sylgard-184 Properties
Professor Albert Folch's lab reports on the formulation, characterization, and SL application of a 3D?printable PDMS resin (3DP?PDMS) based on commercially available PDMS?methacrylate macromers, a high?efficiency photoinitiator and a high?absorbance photosensitizer. 3DP?PDMS resin enables assembly?free, automated, digital manufacturing of PDMS, which should facilitate the prototyping of devices for microfluidics, organ?on?chip platforms, soft robotics, flexible electronics, and sensors, among others.
