Department of Biomedical Engineering

The Department of Biomedical Engineering motivates and prepares students to engage in life-long learning. Through the creation, integration, application, and transfer of engineering knowledge to medicine and biology, we have a significant and far-reaching impact on human health. We cultivate an environment that nurtures and promotes the development of our faculty, staff, trainees, and students as professionals and leaders.

Brady Lundin

  • Graduate Student

Creating and utilizing neural tissue engineering platforms for the study of clinical disease.

Keerthana Shankar

  • Graduate Student

Virus-free CAR Natural Killer (CAR) NK cell therapies for solid tumors

David Beebe

David Beebe

Claude Bernard Professor of Biomedical Engineering, John D. MacArthur Professor

  • Discovery Fellow

Investigating cellular scale phenomena from both a physical and biological sciences perspective

Michael Murrell

Michael Murrell

Assistant Professor

  • Discovery Fellow

Physics and Synthesis of Soft, Active and Biological Matter

Gavin Knight

Gavin Knight

  • Postdoctoral Associate

Engineering organotypic 2D CNS tissues from human pluripotent stem cells

Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong

Sarah Gong

Vilas Distinguished Professor, Advancing Vision Science Chair Professor, and RRF Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor, Kellett Mid-Career Award 2018-2023

  • WID Faculty

Creating nanomedicines and nanomaterials for human health and sustainable energy applications.

Krishanu Saha

Kris Saha

Associate Professor

  • WID Faculty

Human cell engineering including CRISPR gene editing and epigenetic reprogramming; science & society

Randolph Ashton

Randy Ashton

Associate Professor

  • WID Faculty

Engineering brain and spinal cord tissues ex vivo using human pluripotent stem cells