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 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.
We're proud to have a strong presence at the Society For Biomaterials 2026 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Our students, postdocs, and faculty from labs throughout the Knight Campus Bioengineering department are presenting research across drug delivery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
New tools for recording brain activity, developed in the Knight Campus lab of Felix Deku could one day decode Parkinson's, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Two bioengineers from the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact have been elected to leadership positions in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), a group dedicated to advancing tissue engineering and regenerative medicine worldwide to improve patient outcomes globally.
The Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering is fast becoming an irresistible destination for high-performing faculty and students. Read more about all of the ways we are pushing the boundaries of discovery, innovation, and impact in the BioE Annual Report 2025.
