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The Department of Biomedical Engineering is an ABET-accredited, highly-ranked department, which benefits from a longstanding and extensive collegial partnership with the world-renowned Washington University School of Medicine. We seek to provide a first-class undergraduate engineering-based education to prepare students for a variety of careers. Our graduate training focuses on cutting-edge research which endeavors to encompass modern, interdisciplinary approaches to advancing basic science with the hope of better understanding, diagnosing and treating human diseases.

Major research thrusts are:

  • bioelectrical engineering
  • cell & tissue engineering
  • imaging technologies
  • molecular engineering

We have 16 core faculty, more than 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students and are housed in a superb, modern teaching and research facility, The Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. A second facility, The Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall (slated to open in 2010) will provide expansion space for our dynamic, still-growing department.

Our research provides world-changing solutions

Featured News

Professor Younan Xia's work featured in the New York Times

Targeted drug delivery using gold nanocages.  A Nov. 3, 2009 article in the Observatory section of the New York Times described Professor Xia's latest drug delivery research efforts using gold nanocages his laboratory developed. 

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Professor Lihong Wang's work featured in The Economist

Titled "The sound of light," Professor Wang's article describes a novel scanning technique that combines optics with ultrasound to provide detailed images at greater depths.

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Professor Sakiyama-Elbert's paper 9th most widely read in Stem Cells

Professor Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert's paper had over 4400 downloads for the year.

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Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Whitaker Hall, Campus Box 1097, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Phone: (314) 935-7208, Fax: (314) 935-7448