UW Bioengineering
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News and Events
A New Biosensing Tool for Cancer Research
Professor Elizabeth Wayne is developing a novel way of tracking cancer-fighting cells – and chalking up a series of professional recognitions as she does.
Events
Fighting thrombosis by targeting von Willebrand factor
UW Bioengineering researchers identify ways of turning off the function of a blood protein under conditions that may encourage dangerous clots
Machine learning for atrial fibrillation treatment that “shows its work”
A UW team gives doctors and patients a new tool in treating a leading cause of strokes and heart failure.
Ratner earns NIH tech transfer grant to improve dialysis for patients
Buddy Ratner earns a $1.6 million grant that will support a new method of recycling dialysate that is 500 times more efficient than current approaches.
Featured Publications
Black Dots: High-Yield Traction Force Microscopy Reveals Structural Factors Contributing to Platelet Forces
Kevin M Beussman, Molly Y Mollica, Andrea Leonard, Jeffrey Miles, [...]
Pharmacologic therapy for engraftment arrhythmia induced by transplantation of human cardiomyocytes
Charles Murry, Rong Tian, colleagues find approach suppresses engraftment arrhythmia.
Computational modeling identifies embolic stroke of undetermined source patients with potential arrhythmic substrate
Senior authors Patrick Boyle and Nazem Akoum published in eLife.
