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
David Castner and Xiaohu Gao Inducted as AIMBE Fellows
UW Bioengineering faculty Drs. David Castner and Xiaohu Gao were inducted as AIMBE Fellows at the organization's annual meeting February 17-19 in Washington, DC. AIMBE, or the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,is a [...]
Deok-Ho Kim Receives BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award
UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Deok-Ho Kim was recently selected as a recipient of the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Society Cellular and Molecular Engineering (BMES-CMBE) Rising Star Award and was invited to give a talk in [...]
Kim Woodrow Receives NIH Directors New Innovator Award
UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Kim Woodrow has been selected as a recipient of a 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for her project entitled “Nanomaterials for engineering protection in the genital mucosa”. The NIH [...]