Research
A unique aspect of the research conducted by UW Bioengineering is our department's ties with industry, and the resulting technology transfers and corporate research partnerships. This relationship between bioengineering and the private sector points to the exciting nature of the department's research, demonstrating that our field is very much at the cutting edge of the nation's need for new knowledge creation and competitive technology development.
Currently, UW Bioengineering pursues five major areas of research and training: Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, Engineered Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Molecular Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Computational and Integrative Bioengineering, and Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy.
Within each of these areas, there are centers of excellence that include the NSF Engineering Research Center on Biomaterials that Heal (UWEB), National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (NESAC/BIO), Resource Facility for Population Kinetics (RFPK), Center for Nanotechnology, Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound (CIMU), and the Image Computing Systems Laboratory (ICSL).
Areas of Research
The Department of Bioengineering is currently researching a diverse range of topics within the field. There are five major areas of research within the department:
- Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2)
- Engineered Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Molecular Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
- Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
- Computational and Integrative Bioengineering