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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.
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Three MAB students create a pacemaker prototype that can recharge its battery
Researchers at the UW have unveiled a prototype that [...]
December 2023 eNews
Orsborn lab awarded NIH grant to improve brain-computer [...]
New faculty member Elizabeth Wayne works to modulate immune cells to fight disease
Elizabeth (Liz) Wayne, UW bioengineering’s newest faculty member, is [...]
Featured Publications
Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry—A method to evaluate plasma-modified three-dimensional scaffold chemistry
Research Associate Professor Lara Gamble and colleagues report on a technique for characterizing the distribution and composition of chemical species through complex porous scaffolds. This approach could be widely applicable for ToF-SIMS analysis of scaffolds modified by multiple plasma processing techniques as well as alternative surface modification approaches.
Anisotropic forces from spatially constrained focal adhesions mediate contact guidance directed cell migration
The researchers investigate whole cell and molecular level interactions that mediate contact guidance of phenotypically distinct carcinoma cells. By using nano-patterning techniques to produce substrates that facilitate detailed analysis, they identify a cellular mechanism of topographic sensing that can account for the diversity of responses across multiple cell phenotypes.
Fibroblast-specific genetic manipulation of p38 MAPK in vivo reveals its central regulatory role in fibrosis
The researchers examine the role of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) p38a (Mapk14) gene in orchestrating the fibroblast differentiation and fibrosis involved in cardiac injury response.
