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
Ying Zheng receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
UW Bioengineering assistant professor Ying Zheng has received an NIH Director's New Innovator Award to recognize her work creating organ-specific microenvironments for regenerative medicine and therapeutic development.
Deok-Ho Kim Receives Young Investigator Award from KSEA
UW Bioengineering Assistant Professor Deok-Ho Kim is a 2013 recipient of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Young Investigator Award.
Castner, Stayton, Yager join WA State Academy of Sciences
UW Bioengineering professors David Castner, Paul Yager and Patrick Stayton named to Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Lawrence Crum receives Acoustical Society of America Gold Medal
UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Lawrence Crum received the highest award offered by the Acoustical Society of America, Gold Medal.
Ruikang Wang elected SPIE Fellow
UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Ruikang (Ricky) Wang has been elected as a SPIE Fellow. Dr. Wang, who is known for investigating the properties of light, biotissue, and their interactions and pioneering biomedical optical imaging applications, [...]
UW Bioengineering students receive “Best Innovation Idea” award at 2013 UW Business Plan Competition
UW Bioengineering PhD students Karen Eaton (from Dr. Marta Scatena's lab) and Renuka Ramanathan (from Dr. Kim Woodrow's lab) were among participants of a team which received the "Best Innovation Idea" award, as well as [...]