About Us

By any measure, the University of Washington's bioengineering program is one of the finest in the world. We're ranked in the top three by the National Research Council, we receive more research funding from the NIH than any bioengineering program in the country, and we're a national leader in technology transfers and corporate research partnerships with a prolific 460 invention disclosures, 170 patents, 117 patents pending, 77 license agreements, 26 spin-off companies.

UW Bioengineering is home to some of the most exciting research being done in this discipline, and our inventions to date include ultrasound machines, the Sonic Toothbrush, microfluidics, smart biomaterials, medical imaging algorithms and applications, and high-performance computing. Faculty and students in the department are making discoveries and researching technologies that will revolutionize the healthcare system, across multidisciplinary endeavors in nanotechnology, biotechnology, modern biology, physiology, computation and informatics, imaging, sensors, devices, and instrumentation.

Unexplored frontiers will emerge even more quickly in the coming years, and bioengineers will be key players in this dynamic environment, thanks to interdisciplinary training and collaborative problem-solving skills. We're proud of our research, but we still consider our students our greatest asset and accomplishment. The UW Department of Bioengineering is well positioned and committed to training first-class interdisciplinary professionals equipped with the skills and philosophy needed to lead bioengineering into the 21st century.

See our video, Inventing the Future of Medicine (MPEG/270MB).