Alumni – UW Bioengineering – Archive
Nishant Velagapudi – From Capstone to CTO
Alumnus Nishant Velagapudi shared his experience at an AI-based medtech company with 2025 capstone students
MAB alumnus raises $5 million to build autonomous surgical robotics
Georgia Witchel and the team at Louiza Labs has raised $5million to develop the technology underlying simulated FDA trials and autonomous surgical robots.
UW Bioengineering Alumnus Kamal Shah leads smartwatch study to detect cardiac arrest
Kamal Shah, Ph.D., a graduate of UW Bioengineering, is the lead author of a major new study that explores how smartwatches could help detect cardiac arrest.
The circuitous path: how BioE alumnus Philip Lee found his calling in medicine
UW Bioengineering alumnus Philip Lee: a circuitous journey of discovery and the path to medicine
PharBE alum Robb Poier on the value of lifelong learning
Whether it is serving in the United States Army or working on breakthrough cancer therapies, Robb Poier (PharBE ‘23) has always been passionate about helping people and doing good in the world. more...
Meet Stephanie Baptiste, PharBE alumna and manager at Amgen
“My favorite [PharBE] class was also my most challenging class – Clinical Development – because it forced me to put in practice what I was learning,” Stephanie says. more...
New Ph.D. grad Nuttada Panpradist ready for next challenge: faculty position
Postdoc credits adviser Barry Lutz as example of resilience, collaboration.
A-Alpha Bio Wins $620K NSF Grant; Builds on $2.8 Million in Seed Funding
A-Alpha Bio, a startup co-founded and led by UW Bioengineering alumni David Younger (Ph.D. ’17), and Randolph Lopez (Ph.D. ’18, received a $620,472 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue developing their AlphaSeq platform for the discovery of molecular glues.
Bioengineering alumna Jane Grande-Allen receives 2020 UW Diamond Award
UW Bioengineering alumna Jane Grande-Allen (Ph.D. ’98) has received the UW College of Engineering’s 2020 Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia.
BioE Alumna’s Nanodropper Startup Gets Boost from Accelerator Program
Nanodropper, a company co-founded by UW Bioengineering alumna Mackenzie Andrews, MS ’19, has completed this year’s Jones + Foster Accelerator program and received $25,000 in seed funding.
BioE Alumna’s Nanodropper Startup Gets Boost from Accelerator Program
Nanodropper, a company co-founded by University of Washington Bioengineering alumna Mackenzie Andrews, MS ’19, has completed this year’s Jones + Foster Accelerator program and received $25,000 in seed funding.
Bioengineering Alumnus Wayne Gombotz Receives 2019 UW Diamond Award
UW Bioengineering alumnus Wayne Gombotz (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88) has received the College of Engineering’s 2019 Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Industry. Dr. Gombotz's work has provided the basis of many drug delivery strategies in use and development today; multiple successful therapeutic products and processes to treat cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases; and it spurred the development of the biotechnology industry in Seattle.
Alumni Anna Blakney, Abbi Helfer, Emily Krogstad and Lael Wentland advance bioengineering worldwide with Whitaker awards
UW Bioengineering alumni Anna Blakney, Abbi Helfer, Emily Krogstad and Lael Wentland received Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program awards in 2016 to pursue independent research projects abroad. They talk about their experiences researching and living in England, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam.
Alumna Amanda Woodcock discusses career in product development in Product Design Studio profile
Amanda Woodcock (B.S., '15) discusses discovering the field of product development as a senior at UW and how she decided to pursue the field as a career. "I love being in the trenches, brainstorming and coming up with solutions to the most difficult problems,"
Ph.D. alum’s startup aims to freeze your cells – and help you regrow your body later
UW Bioengineering Ph.D. program alumnus Alex Jiao’s startup Silene Biotech wants to help you to grow a new heart or liver – in case those organs fail later in life.
Online Master of Pharmaceutical Bioengineering prepares working professionals to drive drug discovery, development
In this professional master's degree program, students gain cutting-edge knowledge in basic bioscience, drug discovery and pharmaceutics, and learn how to apply their expertise to market-based demands of pharmaceutical industry.
Ph.D. grad Joshua Buser engineers low-cost diagnostics, mentors next generation
A drive to engineer solutions to global health problems compelled recent Yager lab Ph.D. graduate Joshua Buser to pursue bioengineering. He aims to bring diagnostic testing to low-resource settings – and increase access to affordable health care closer to home.
UW, Academia Sinica researchers develop “drug capture system” to treat limb ischemia
UW Bioengineering faculty James Lai, Suzie Pun and Patrick Stayton, and BioE Ph.D. alumnus and affiliate faculty member Patrick Hsieh, are among contributing authors of a paper describing a novel treatment for limb ischemia.
Kelly Stevens Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Dr. Kelly Stevens, an assistant professor in UW Bioengineering and in Pathology, has received a 2016 National institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award in support of her work to build artificial human tissues from stem cells, and to remotely control these tissues after implantation in a patient.
UW Bioengineering eNews Spring/Summer 2016
UW Bioengineering eNews offers an update on our advances in bioengineering research and education, and recognizes recent achievements of our students and faculty.
UW Bioengineering alumnus Michael Garrison receives 2016 UW Diamond Award
Alumnus Michael Garrison (Ph.D., ’99) won UW's 2016 Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Industry. Now vice president of R&D at Becton Dickinson and Co., Dr. Garrison has inspired and developed medical products that have improved health care safety, disease management and infection prevention around the world.
BioE alumna & Fulbright/Whitaker recipient Sharon Newman checks in from Germany
UW Bioengineering alumna and recipient of 2015-16 Fulbright Student and Whitaker fellowships Sharon Newman is investigating ways to design and build durable, longer lasting neuroprosthetic electrodes. She is also learning German and exploring Europe in her free time.