Exploring Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering

The Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering will be held on September 21, 2018, on CMU's campus in Pittsburgh.

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Designing Molecular Disorder

Prof. Chris Bettinger and collaborators published an article in Science.

The Learning Brain is Less Flexible than We Thought

Profs. Steven Chase and Byron Yu published a paper in Nature Neuroscience.

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Ph.D. student Sara Abdollahi, advised by Prof. Adam Feinberg, and other CMU researchers have developed a novel approach to optimizing soft material 3-D printing.

BME students presented at the University-wide symposium for undergraduate research.

Prof. Tzahi Cohen-Karni has been named a 2018 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

Message from BME Dept. Head Bin He

"Biomedical engineering can be pushed from biomedical sciences or from engineering, and CMU is the ideal place to advance biomedical engineering through engineering innovation."

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The Sherman and Joyce Bowie Scott Hall

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BME Stories

NEXTpittsburgh, an online magazine about people driving change in the region, published an impressive article about Professor Bin He.

Alyssa Siefert, ChemE/BME, 2009, is currently the Engineering Co-Director for CBIT (Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology) at Yale University.

BME Ph.D. student Diane Nelson, advised by Prof. Keith Cook, is developing a method of emulsifying lung medications into oxygen-saturated perfluorocarbon liquid (PFC).