Bioengineering 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.
The Knight Campus welcomed 7 new PhD students to the Department of Bioengineering during Impact Week 2024, held from Sept. 20-27.
Felix Deku has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his innovative research in neuroengineering.

Second-year Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering doctoral student David Frey Rubio is featured in a story on UO recipients of the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Frey was one of five BioE students to receive the award in 2024

Justin Svendsen, PhD candidate and NIH F31 fellowship recipient shares insights into his research on angiogenesis and his journey through bioengineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the Knight Campus.
Bioengineering professor Marian Hettiaratchi received the 2024 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Knight Campus biochemistry PhD candidate Justin Svendsen has been awarded an F31 NRSA fellowship
The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association took part in the UO’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL)