UW Bioengineering
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News and Events
Amy Orsborn and Elizabeth Wayne selected to the Inaugural AIMBE Emerging Leaders Cohort
UW Bioengineering celebrates the selection of Amy Orsborn and Elizabeth Wayne to the inaugural cohort of the AIMBE Emerging Leaders Program.
Events
Amy Orsborn receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
Amy Orsborn, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research in sensorimotor neural interfaces.
Exceptional department review highlights strengths of UW Bioengineering
The University of Washington Graduate School recently conducted a thorough review of the Department of Bioengineering.
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.
Featured Publications
Fund Black Scientists
Commentary with lead author Kelly Stevens: End funding discrimination.
Cationic polymers for non-viral gene delivery to human T cells
Suzie Pun and colleagues We demonstrate transfection of both CD4+ and CD8+ primary human T cells with messenger RNA and plasmid DNA at efficiencies up to 25 and 18%, respectively, with similarly high viability.
A Carboxylate to Amide Substitution That Switches Protein Folds
Valerie Daggett and colleagues performed a comparative molecular dynamics study on the denatured states of two proteins, sharing nearly identical amino?acid sequences (88?%) but different topologies, namely an all?a?helical bundle protein named GA88 and an a+B?protein named GB88.
