BMES 2022

BMES San Antonio 2022 : A great success! What do our students think about BMES? I would highly recommend BMES to any undergraduate student. It's by far the most welcoming and open conference, with a large focus on introducing undergraduates to academia and the large breadth of research taking place in BME. It's an amazing networking opportunity for students,…

Asteroid (433512) Hollyholman Named after UBME Researcher

Asteroid (433512) Hollyholman named after UBME Researcher Patrick Wiggins (left) and Holly Holman (right) co-pilot in an aircraft.  DOWNLOAD FULL-RES IMAGE Photo Credit: Patrick Wiggins   Holly Holman and Patrick Wiggins have made discoveries in their respective fields, although the subjects are on opposite scales. Holman is a biomedical engineer who studies the molecular…

BME Seminar – Laura Ensign

Hypotonic gelling solutions for extended topical ocular drug delivery Laura Ensign, PhD Marcella E. Woll Professor of Ophthalmology Vice Chair for Research in the Wilmer Eye Institute Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Friday, March 31st at 11:45 am Virtual on Zoom!! Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 943 2208 7810 Passcode: 038571 Eye drops are the dominant dosage form for…

CHAIR DAVID GRAINGER ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

David W. Grainger, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Ole and Marty Jensen Endowed Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He joins Michael L. Good, M.D., CEO of University of Utah Health and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences in this year’s class of…

Graduate Studies

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah is an internationally renowned center of basic and applied interdisciplinary research. The Department offers two graduate degrees: the Master of Science (M.S.) and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Graduate students can pursue research and educational opportunities in bioinstrumentation, medical imaging, biomaterials,…

Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conferences

Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conferences The Biomedical Engineering Department hosts an annual biomedical engineering conference for the Intermountain West at a local mountain resort. Each year, this conference includes plenary lectures from leaders in the field as well as oral and poster sessions for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to present their new and…

Frank B. Sasche, PhD, New Tenure-Track Associate Professor

Dr. Sachse received an MS in computer science in 1992, and a PhD in electrical engineering in 1997, his Privatdozent with teaching license for Biomedical Engineering in 2002 from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. He has worked at the University of Utah as a Research Associate Professor at the Nora Eccles Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute from…

Thank you Johns Hopkins University: Dr. Tara Deans Joins the Department of Bioengineering

Dr. Tara Deans joined the department as an Assistant Professor this month. She brings cutting edge research in synthetic biology, along with exciting new approaches to cell therapies to the department's scope of work. The Deans Laboratory for Applied Synthetic Biology will focus on developing new technologies to tightly control gene expression in mammalian cells. Applications…

Biomedical Engineering Students Shine at Innovation Competition

A plethora of students representing the Department of Biomedical Engineering were strutting their stuff at this year’s Bench-2-Bedside competition. For the third year, Bench-2-Bedside , a medical-device prototype and business-plan competition, challenged student teams to show that they can create commercially viable technologies and the businesses to…

How Well Do You Know the Department?

How Well Do You Know the Department? Did you know the department of bioengineering is the 11th largest department of its type nationally and growing, according to ASEE? According to U.S. News & World Report, the department’s peers are private institutions like Harvard, Yale and Carnegie Mellon. Did you know that department offers a unique,…