Washington University, St. LouisEngineering

Our ABET-accredited, highly-ranked department benefits from a longstanding, extensive and collegial partnership with our world-renowned 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:

  • biomaterials and tissue engineering
  • cardiovascular engineering
  • imaging
  • molecular, cell and systems engineering
  • neural engineering

We have 17 core faculty, more than 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students and are housed in two superb, modern teaching and research facilities, The Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering (completed in 2002) and in a portion of the Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall which provides expansion space for our dynamic, still-growing department.

Helen Wang, Dustin Grisemer and Shawna Crawford in clinic in China during 2009 summer exchange program
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Featured News

Welcome new students

We extend our most cordial welcome to our incoming freshmen undergraduates and to our 27 new doctoral students. We are pleased that you are joining our BME family!

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New faculty member

Mark Anastasio, currently Assoc. Prof. Of BME at Illinois Insitute of Technology, will be joining our faculty early in 2011. Welcome!

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PhD Alumna's paper is Top 10 most-cited in Stem Cell Research journal

Congratulations to Stephanie Willerth, who earned her PhD in 2008 with advisor Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert.

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Two researchers receive American Heart Association fellowships

Congratulations to Namit Gaur, PhD candidate, and Dr. Kavit Alan Desouza, physician scientist, who will continue research in Yoram Rudy's lab.

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Professor wins 2010 Goodman Book Writing Award

The Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE honored Lihong Wang and co-author Hsin-I Wu of Texas A&M University, for their textbook Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging.

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Graduate student earns Best Student Poster Presentation Award

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Metasebya Solomon, who won this award at the Optical Society of America's BIOMED meeting in Miami in April. Metasebya is a member of the Optical Radiology Lab, and joined the department in 2006.

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BME undergrad named women's indoor track Elite 88 Winner

Congratulations to sophomore Liz Phillips, member of the Bears' school-record-breaking distance medley relay team, who maintains a 4.0 GPA.  

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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