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Imaging pioneer Ruikang Wang to deliver Inaugural Fujimoto Lecture
UW Bioengineering professor Ruikang Wang has been selected to deliver the Inaugural James G. Fujimoto Award Lectureship.
Events
Forging Future Leaders: How a chance encounter led to a new Leadership in STEM course
Azadeh Yazdan, associate professor and Kathy Leach, Ph.D., a former UW BioE postdoc research associate, cultivate the next generation of STEM leaders
2024 UW Bioengineering Graduation Celebration June 6, 2024
Save the date: Thursday Morning, June 6, 2024, 9:00am [...]
Unveiling solutions: The vital role of UW Center for Translational Muscle Research in addressing skeletal muscle dysfunction
A National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases grant funds the CTMR research to 2029.
Featured Publications
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.
Designed a-sheet peptides suppress amyloid formation in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms
The researchers have designed small proteins that can inhibit the formation of biofilms, common sources of infection for hundreds of patients worldwide, especially with those who have implanted medical devices. Their designed anti-a-sheet peptides suppressed the formation of biofilm in S. aureus, a bacteria resistant to many drugs, by about half, and prevented aggregation of infectious proteins through their binding mechanism.
Micro- and nano-patterned conductive graphene–PEG hybrid scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering
Dr. Kim and colleagues demonstrate a method for producing cardiac tissue scaffolds with anisotropic electroconductive properties using PEG-graphene substrates.
