Kylie Williams, a PhD candidate in the Guldberg Lab, successfully defended her dissertation. She will become the first student to receive a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Knight Campus

Three Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering graduate students received awards at the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium

ClearMark Biosciences, a startup company founded by two students with Knight Campus ties, won the Grand Prize at the 2024 iGEM Startup Showcase

Students and faculty from the UO and the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering are presenting at the Sixth Annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium at Oregon Health & Science University on Nov. 15, 2024.

The UO iGEM team, advised by Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering assistant professor Calin Plesa, competed at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris in October and brought home a silver medal in the Infectious Diseases category.

Graduate students in the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering partnered with grad students from the Department of Human Physiology to form a cross-departmental local recreational soccer team through City of Eugene Athletics.

A new $2 million investment from the Oregon state legislature will allow the UO to raise enrollment in the semiconductor track of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, an accelerated applied master’s program that provides a pipeline to industry jobs.

Research on enzymes with the potential to break down plastics in the environment from the lab of Knight Campus' Parisa Hosseinzadeh, is mentioned in a Science story on AI designer proteins inspired by this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry. An assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Hosseinzadeh was previously advised by recent Nobel winner David Baker.

The Knight Campus welcomed 7 new PhD students to the Department of Bioengineering during Impact Week 2024, held from Sept. 20-27.