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News and Events
Brain-machine interface pioneer Amy Orsborn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow
Amy Orsborn, UW assistant professor in Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship
Events
Four Bioengineering professors receive WRF grant for pioneering life-science projects
UW BioE faculty have been awarded major new grant funding by the WRF. Of the six UW teams awarded the grant, four are from UW Bioengineering.
Faculty Promotions: Andre Berndt and Patrick Boyle
UW Bioengineering is thrilled to congratulate faculty members Andre Berndt and Patrick Boyle on their promotions to associate professors with tenure
Ayokunle Olanrewaju receives prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awarded UW BioE and ME Assistant Professor Ayokunle (Ayo) Olanrewaju with the Beckman Young Investigator Award.
Featured Publications
Scaffold-Mediated Delivery for Non-Viral MRNA Vaccines
SCAFFOLD-MEDIATED DELIVERY FOR NON-VIRAL MRNA VACCINES https://www.nature.com/articles/s41434-018-0040-9 Ruying Chen, Hong [...]
Exclusion zone and heterogeneous water structure at ambient temperature
Professor Gerald Pollack and colleagues report the formation of a ‘three-dimensional cell-like structured exclusion zone’ in water prepared by two different methods. Based on their findings of an electric potential difference between the heterogeneous structured water and the ordinary water, the researchers propose a new model to explain the relationship between heterogeneous, structured water and its electrical properties.
Targeting sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase as an anabolic therapy for bone loss
Research Associate Professor Marta Scatena and a team of collaborators show that raising Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) levels in adult mice through conditionally deleting or pharmacologically inhibiting S1P lyase, the sole enzyme responsible for irreversibly degrading S1P, markedly increased bone formation, mass and strength and substantially decreased white adipose tissue.
