blood vessels grown in a petri dish, in lab. shown as red and pink filaments against a black background.

Building Better Models of Regeneration

New research from the Knight Campus is advancing models of vascular network regeneration to improve treatments for injury recovery and poor circulation.

Look Inside Building 2

Knight Campus Building 2 is a 185,000-square-foot, multi-story bioengineering and applied science research facility now under construction

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A New Scale of Biology

New Knight Campus technology could generate the massive biological datasets needed to train machine learning to predict and prevent cancer, disease, and antibiotic resistance.

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Department of Bioengineering

Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program

Brewing Innovation Minor

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Saumya Keremane Receives the Rita Levi Montalcini Scholarship

Saumya Keremane, a PhD candidate in the Ambati and Taylor labs, has been awarded a Rita Levi Montalcini scholarship from the Dompé Foundation in Italy to support her graduate work. The Dompé Foundation supports promising scientists pursuing STEM degrees and has funded more than 50 graduate students at leading universities across the U.S.

Brewing Innovation Release Party set for Dec. 9 at Claim 52

The Knight Campus Brewing Innovation (BRIN) program will host a public tasting and showcase on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 5–8 p.m. at Claim 52 (upstairs) in Eugene. The event celebrates the inaugural cohort of BRIN students and highlights three imaginative, student-designed beers brewed in collaboration with Eugene’s craft community.

Knight Campus-based UO iGEM team wins gold at iGEM global synthetic-biology competition

The University of Oregon team based at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact earned a Gold Medal at the 2025 iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris, becoming the first UO team ever to achieve the top award level in the international synthetic-biology competition.

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The Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon Based in the Knight Campus

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The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is a hub of discovery and innovation where teams of world-class bioengineers and bioscientists are driving groundbreaking scientific research and providing an innovative approach to technical training, professional development, and entrepreneurship.