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 19 core faculty and 55 affiliated faculty, more than 440 undergraduate and 105 graduate 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.

Faculty, students apply engineering to solve problems in medicine

Featured News

New Faculty Member

Jon R. Silva, PhD, will join our faculty in July, 2012

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Student wins national scholarship

Junior Jenny Liu wins prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship 

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Student wins leadership award

Senior Liz Phillips wins Harriet k. Switzer Leadership Award

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New Faculty Member

We are pleased to announce that John Cunningham, Ph.D. from Stanford University joined our faculty in March 2012.

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New Faculty Member

We are pleased to announce that Jan Bieschke, PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute joined our faculty in January 2012.

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New Faculty Member

We are pleased to announce that Kristen M. Naegle, PhD from MIT joined our faculty in January 2012.

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Graduate student wins second global competition

MD/PhD student Matthew MacEwan wins the 2011 Idea to Product Life Science Championship.

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Undergraduate student wins NCAA award

Senior Liz Phillips is the 2011 D-III NCAA Elite 89 Awardee.

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Professor's work featured

Assistant Professor Vitaly Klyachko's recent work on synaptic function is a featured article in the October 12th edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.

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Graduate student wins research award

Graduate student Ben Filas was one of eight Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Graduate Research Award recipients at the 2011 Annual BMES Meeting.

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Professor wins award

International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing’s 2011 Wolfgang Gopel Award given to Baranidharan Raman. 

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Professor appointed to Editorial Board

Professor Mark A. Anastasio has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Medical Physics (AAPM).

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Student wins poster competition

Doctoral student Metasebya Solomon won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the ECI conference in Naples, Florida.

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Student wins international competition

Congratulations to our MD/PhD student who won the grand prize at LES Foundation International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition.

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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