Bioengineering News

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Hettiaratchi awarded the BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
Bioengineering professor Marian Hettiaratchi received the 2024 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
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Svendsen awarded NIH fellowship for promising graduate student researchers
Knight Campus biochemistry PhD candidate Justin Svendsen has been awarded an F31 NRSA fellowship
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Inspiring the Next Generation at SAIL
The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association took part in the UO’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL)
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Hetiaratchi Receives UO Early Career Award
Marian Hettiaratchi received the Early Career Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. It is the UO’s highest award for early career faculty to recognize and celebrate an emerging and significant record of scholarship and research.
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Benoit Inducted as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Danielle Benoit was officially inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors during a ceremony at the organization’s annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Cresko Named UO Director for Center for Biomedical Data Science
The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact has announced that Bill Cresko will serve as director of the UO’s Center for Biomedical Data Science.
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Knight Campus to Host Annual Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Symposium
On Friday, May 24th, the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon will hold its annual symposium in the the Beetham Family Seminar Room
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Dept. of BioE Hosts Workshop on Next Gen. Biomaterials
The Department of Bioengineering at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact hosted a two-day Next Generation Biomaterials workshop on May 13-14, 2024.
Woman holds certificate for Women in Nephrology Award
South receives translational science award, nephrology research award

Sanique South, a postdoctoral scholar in the Willett Lab, received both the Translational Science Research Award and the 2024 Women in Nephrology Research Award while attending the Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) 22nd Annual Workshop, held on April 17-19, 2024, in Bethesda, MD.

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Five Department of Bioengineering Ph.D. Students Awarded NSF Fellowships
Five Ph.D. students from the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.