BioE News

Bioengineering PhD students from the latest cohort will share short 5-7-minute presentations regarding their lab rotations in the Knight Campus
Knight Campus assistant professor Calin Plesa has received a $75,000 grant from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust through its Commercialization Initiation Program
Kylie Williams, a PhD candidate in the Guldberg Lab, successfully defended her dissertation. She will become the first student to receive a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Knight Campus
Three Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering graduate students received awards at the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium
Students and faculty from the UO and the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering are presenting at the Sixth Annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium at Oregon Health & Science University on Nov. 15, 2024.
Graduate students in the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering partnered with grad students from the Department of Human Physiology to form a cross-departmental local recreational soccer team through City of Eugene Athletics.

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.
The Knight Campus welcomed 7 new PhD students to the Department of Bioengineering during Impact Week 2024, held from Sept. 20-27.