Bioengineering News

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.

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.

Five Ph.D. students from the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
Knight Campus researcher Felix Deku is designing tech to relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, depression, and more with an engineering philosophy that centers on iterative design
The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association (GSA) held an art social at Oakshire Brewing

Science outreach efforts aimed at inspiring young women and others from under-represented groups are commonplace, but such programs often reach young would-be scientists when it's too late says Tayler Hebner, a postdoctoral scholar in the Benoit Lab. 

The Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series concluded for the 2022-23 academic year with a panel discussion on entrepreneurship
Danielle Benoit, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester, will join the Knight Campus as the inaugural bioengineering chair