Research, Innovation, Impact
Join an interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven bioengineering program that will not only help advance your career, but produce societal impact.
At the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, teams of world-class bioengineers are tackling everything from cartilage regeneration therapies to next-generation neural interfaces to advanced biofabrication to novel protein design.
Meet our faculty
Meet Cora Ferguson, a Bioengineering PhD student in Nick Willett's lab.
Department of Bioengineering PhD Candidate Jonathan Dorogin successfully defended his thesis
A PhD Program with a Purpose
Research That Fuels the Impact Cycle
Cutting-edge research that aims to serve society through translation of new discoveries and technologies.
Accelerate Your Career
High impact trainings and mentorship on science communication and entrepreneurship that launch, and accelerate, your professional development.
Research Tools to Make Your Future
World-class facilities for fabrication, prototyping and analysis to help you transform your research ideas into real-world solutions and products.
Joint PhD Program Focused on Translation
An innovative joint PhD training program leverages the combined strengths at the University of Oregon Knight Campus and Oregon State University.
Yan Pacheco, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Hettiaratchi/Willett Labs at Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering, has been a part of the LatinXinBME organization almost from the beginning.
Meet Cora Ferguson, a Bioengineering PhD student in Nick Willett's lab.
The Knight Campus welcomed 7 PhD students in the fall of 2024 with a range of talents and interests. They share a commitment to making an impact while taking their science, and their careers, to the next level.
Five Ph.D. students from the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is considered the gold standard in graduate research fellowships and is only handed out to about 2,000 students nationwide.
Three bioengineering faculty have received National Institutes of Health grants totaling nearly $5 million to support powerful research with the potential to help us heal faster, be healthier, and live better.
- Outstanding research opportunities focused on societal impact.
- A program and faculty focused on accelerating your success.
- The joint PhD program gives you access to courses and research resources at both campuses.
- Facilities, resources and training for innovation and entrepreneurship.
- World-class research tools and facilities to fuel your research.
- A new campus designed with collaboration in mind.
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