Bioengineering News

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Keremane Receives an F31 Fellowship
Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate, co-advised by Richard Taylor and Bala Ambati, Saumya Keremane has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) to support her research on mechanisms and treatments for inherited blindness.
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Knight Campus Bioengineers Present at Statewide Symposium
Researchers across the department of bioengineering presented their research at the annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium (OBS) in Corvallis, Oregon.
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Bioengineering Trainees Featured in Local Media
Bioengineering trainees spoke with local media about the opening of Knight Campus Building 2.
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Chasko Receives an F31 Fellowship

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.

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Outreach Event Introduces Female High School Students to Engineering, Orthopedic Surgery
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
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Benoit advocates for science funding at Capitol Hill

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. 

Emma Anderson, Kelsey Krusen, Max Tenenbaum, National Science Foundation GRFP winners
Department of Bioengineering Students Awarded Prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowships

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.

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Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis Workshop

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!

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Knight Campus Researchers Shine at ORS and SFB Conferences

The Knight Campus had strong representation at both the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) conference and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) annual meeting last week.

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Reimaginging Tissue Regeneration

Bioengineer Marian Hettiaratchi is the inaugural recipient of the Lary Simpson Professorship.