BioE News

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Impact Week 2024 Kicks Off Training for Incoming Bioengineering PhD Students
The Knight Campus welcomed 7 new PhD students to the Department of Bioengineering during Impact Week 2024, held from Sept. 20-27.
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Knight Campus assistant professor Felix Deku awarded prestigious NIH grant
Felix Deku has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his innovative research in neuroengineering.
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Knight Campus Bioengineering Ph.D. Students Contribute to Spike in Research Fellowships

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

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Interview with Justin Svendsen
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.
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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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Knight Campus Hosts NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan
During an Aug. 26 visit to the UO, Panchanathan, delivered a talk in the Beetham Family Seminar Room, toured the Knight Campus and met with representatives from the Department of Bioengineering and the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program.
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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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Postdoc Rebecca Frederick Recognized as a Rising Star in Engineering in Health
Deku Lab Postdoctoral Researcher, Rebecca Frederick, was recognized as one of 20 bioengineering researchers selected to participate in the Rising Stars in Engineering Health workshop.