UW Bioengineering is proud of all our faculty, staff and students, and the many awards they earn for their work in teaching, mentoring and improving lives through bioengineering research and innovations.

Faculty Award Highlights

  • 29 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellows
  • 13 members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
  • 14 past and current UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellows
  • Six members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
  • Six AAAS Fellows
  • Five National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Student Award Highlights

  • 18 current National Science Foundation Fellows
  • Four Fulbright Student Fellows, one Gates Cambridge Scholar, one Rhodes Scholar, one Luce Scholar, and nine Goldwater Scholars as of 2020
  • 8 Levinson Emerging Scholar awards
  • Multiple awards from NASA Space Grant
  • Multiple awards in business plan competitions from UW Foster School of Business
  • Fellowships from American Heart Association and Washington Research Foundation
  • More Amgen Scholars than any other UW department; 31 since 2007
  • Over 400 Mary Gates Scholarships

Featured Awards and Recognition

  • Reinbach, Germany

Undergraduates Kevin Gray, Emi Lutz receive DAAD-RISE summer internships to study in Germany

March 24th, 2015|

UW Bioengineering junior undergraduates Kevin Gray (Deok-Ho Kim's lab) and Emi Lutz have received DAAD RISE internships to study in Germany in summer 2015. Kevin will study at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Reinbach, and Emi will travel to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen.

  • Department of Bioengineering building sign

Winter 2015 Mary Gates Scholars Announced

March 23rd, 2015|

17 UW Bioengineering undergraduate students received Mary Gates Research Scholarships in Winter 2015, tying previous records for awards granted in an application cycle.

  • The Red Gate (Akamon), The University of Tokyo

Undergraduate Nikita Milani named 2015 University of Tokyo Amgen Scholar

March 23rd, 2015|

Junior undegraduate Nikita Milani has been accepted to The University of Tokyo's Amgen Scholars program and will travel to Japan in summer 2015. Nikita will work in the lab of Yasuyuki Sakai, who investigates physiologically relevant cultured organ models, and implantable liver and pancreatic tissue scaffolds.

  • smart magnetic nanoparticles

UW Bioengineering eNews – Spring 2015

March 18th, 2015|

UW Bioengineering eNews Spring 2015 features the latest on the Department of Bioengineering's advances in bioengineering research and education, as well as recognizes awards and honors received by our students and faculty.

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Ph.D. graduate Alice Ward Racca receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship to study human fetal skeletal and cardiac motor proteins

March 16th, 2015|

Recent Ph.D. graduate Alice Ward Racca is a recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship and will spend the next two years working with Dr. Michael Geeves of the University of Kent, UK, to better understand the myosin II isoforms that are predominantly expressed during in utero development

  • Suzie Pun, Professor of Bioengineering

Suzie Pun and Valerie Daggett elected AIMBE Fellows

January 26th, 2015|

UW Bioengineering Professors Suzie Pun and Valerie Daggett have been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2015. Drs. Pun and Daggett join UW Bioengineering's 18 other AIMBE Fellows. AIMBE, or the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to improving lives through medical and biological engineering.