Bioengineering

Meet our 2024 cohort of BioE PhD students!

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Department of Bioengineering

Research, Innovation, Impact

Join an interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven bioengineering program that will not only help advance your career, but produce societal impact.

Next Generation Biomaterials Workshop

2024

Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the two-day session brought 48 thought leaders in biomaterials from multiple institutions to the Knight Campus

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A PhD Program with a Purpose

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Research That Fuels the Impact Cycle

Cutting-edge research that aims to serve society through translation of new discoveries and technologies.

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Accelerate Your Career

High impact trainings and mentorship on science communication and entrepreneurship that launch, and accelerate, your professional development.

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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.

Innovation Translation

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.

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Representation Matters: Yan Pacheco

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.

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Bioengineering Top Talent

The Knight Campus will welcome 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.

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Five BioE Ph.D. Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

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.

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New Funding Creates Graduate Research Opportunities

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.

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Hettiaratchi recognized for mentorship efforts

Mentorship and student access are at the heart of the Knight Campus mission. Bioengineering Assistant Professor Marian Hettiaratchi is among those recognized at the UO for her teaching efforts and student mentorship.

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Researcher seeks to 3D print new medical implants

Knight Campus Bioengineering Associate Professor Paul Dalton and his international colleagues helped advance melt electrowriting (a high-resolution technique), improving manufacturing precision and quality control in 3D-printing.

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Why the Knight Campus?
  • 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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Knight Campus BioE News

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.

Students and faculty from the Department of Bioengineering are in Baltimore, MD at the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Visit us at Booth 932 and check out our presentations and posters!
Research on enzymes with the potential to break down plastics in the environment from the lab of Knight Campus' Parisa Hosseinzadeh, is mentioned in a Science story on AI designer proteins inspired by this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry. An assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Hosseinzadeh was previously advised by recent Nobel winner David Baker.
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