Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate DeShea Chasko has been awarded a competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) to support her research creating 3D bioprinted bone marrow models.
Professionals, bioengineering faculty, PhD students and undergraduates from the Knight Campus lead hands-on training in partnership with Slocum Research and Education Foundation and the Perry Initiative
Danielle Benoit, Lorry Lokey Chair of the Department of Bioengineering spent the day at Capitol Hill meeting with congressional members and UO Government Relations to advocate for science funding as an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow. While there, she met with the offices of Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Jeff Merkley, Representative Val Hoyle, Representative Cliff Bentz, and Governor Tina Kotek.
50% of this year’s eligible cohort of first year PhD students received the NSF GRFP award, which will support their bioengineering research for three years.
The CBDS Single Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis Workshop will occur from June 9-12. This workshop is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are planning, or who have recently embarked upon, studies that involve Single Cell RNA-seq data. Apply now!
The Knight Campus had strong representation at both the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) conference and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) annual meeting last week.
Tickled Peachy Keen, an unusual fruity, sour beer designed by students as a capstone project and made in collaboration with commercial brewers, will be on tap at Claim 52 Brewing from 5-6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10
Knight Campus Building 2 opened to the public on Monday, March 30. Building 2 is part of the second phase of Knight Campus development, a 185,000-square-foot, multi-story bioengineering and applied science research facility.
