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Department of Bioengineering

Join an interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven bioengineering program that will not only help advance your career, but produce societal impact. We have a PhD program and a undergraduate minor. 



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Research, Innovation, Impact

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Join an interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven bioengineering program that will not only help advance your career, but produce societal impact.

Engage in an immersive curriculum, high impact research opportunities, and targeted research and career training programs that will take your science, and your career, to the next level.

 

  • A program and faculty focused on accelerating your success.
  • The joint PhD program gives you access to courses and research resources at both campuses.
  • Facilities, resources and training for innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • World-class research tools and facilities to fuel your research.
  • A new campus designed with collaboration in mind.

Our Research Areas 

Knight Campus Bioengineering News  All News 

Colin Bredenberg recently began his work in the Knight Campus using artificial intelligence to understand learning and synaptic plasticity in the brain. His research sits at the intersection of artificial and biological intelligence.

Zoé Christenson Wick recently opened her Knight Campus lab where she and her team are investigating how the timing of neural activity contributes to healthy brain function and build better therapies for epilepsy and age-related cognitive decline.

The Knight Campus Graduate Student Association (GSA) has announced its Executive Board for the 2026-2027 Academic Year.

 

Student Experience

Get to know some of the Knight Campus Bioengineering students, their research, hobbies, and experience in and out of the lab in Eugene. 

Meet Jonathan Dorogin. He's from Nebraska. His major was chemistry from the University of Virginia and he's in the Deku lab focused on skin-development.

 

Meet our students

A PhD Program with a Purp

Knight Campus professors

Research That Fuels the Impact Cycle

Cutting-edge research that aims to serve society through translation of new discoveries and technologies.

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Accelerate Your Career

High impact trainings and mentorship on science communication and entrepreneurship that launch, and accelerate, your professional development.

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Research Tools to Make Your Future

World-class facilities for fabrication, prototyping and analysis to help you transform your research ideas into real-world solutions and products.

Innovation Translation

Joint PhD Program Focused on Translation

An innovative joint PhD training program leverages the combined strengths at the University of Oregon Knight Campus and Oregon State University.

Start Building Your Research Path

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