Department of Biomedical Engineering

Our 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 technologies
molecular, cell and systems engineering
neural engineering

We have 19.5 core faculty, 2 lecturers and 57 affiliated faculty, more than 440 undergraduate and 115 doctoral students. The department is housed in two superb, modern teaching and research facilities, The Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering (2002) and in a portion of the Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall (2010) which provides expansion space for our dynamic, still-growing department.

NIBIB DEBUT Challenge Award winners received their prize at the annual BMES Conference in Atlanta.
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Featured News

ARCH Grant Winners!

20 startup companies were each awarded an equity-free $50,000...

Graduate student wins business plan competition

AUTM, a non-profit organization, awards Retectix, LLC $10,000.

BME faculty research is featured on cover of Neuron

Professors Vitaly Klyachko and Jianmin Cui are among the WUSTL contributors to further the knowledge of fragile X syndrome.

BME graduate students receive prize

PhD candidates in Dr. Yoram Rudy’s laboratory are honored for their research at a conference.

BME undergraduates inspire local youth!

The Young Engineers Club started by N'Desha Scott (BME '15) in Fall of 2012 continues at Brittany Woods Middle school in University City.

BME well-represented among Olin Cup winners

First and second prizes go to companies that have created devices that quickly identify heart attacks and measure lung function.

Senior design competition winners

Thirty teams competed in the 2012 BME 401 Senior Design Poster Competition. Students were divided into two groups and winners were selected from each group by a panel of outside judges.

Alumna named 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year, NCAA Top Ten

2012 BME graduate, Liz Phillips, is given top NCAA honors.

Graduate student wins BMES Award

Ya-Jian Cheng received his Research & Design Extended Abstract Award at BMES Annual meeting.

Faculty named Pioneer award winner

Professor Lihong Wang earns prestigious NIH award for his revolutionary development in photoacoustic imaging.

Design team receives award at BMES

Low-Cost Spirometer created by WUSTL engineering students wins at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) DEBUT Challenge and the annual Engineering World Health Design Competition.

Moran Lab study discussed on NPR

NPR's "All Things Considered" highlights Science article by Associate Professor, Dan Moran, PhD, et al.

Faculty reports groundbreaking research

Assistant Professor John Cunningham co-authors article in Nature

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First day of classes

09/13

Neuroscience Colloquium

4:00 PM

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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