Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Looking Back
Michigan has been pushing forward the field of biomedical engineering for over 50 years, with incredible technological contributions like ECMO, the silicon neural probe, and the spherocentric knee, to the world-class education of today’s top biomedical engineering minds.
Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Happening Now
From an engineered scaffold to aid in the early detection of breast cancer metastasis, to a controlled form of ultrasound to non-invasively destroy bad tissue in the body, to a determined mission to enable neural control of prosthetics, Michigan Biomedical Engineering is developing incredible solutions to the worlds most pressing biological and medical challenges.
Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Moving Forward
Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan is poised to make incredible impact in the fields of engineering, biology and medicine in the years and decades ahead, from innovations in undergraduate and graduate education to groundbreaking research.
Events
Precision Measurements and Control of Single Biomolecules in Free Solution
BME Seminar Series - Allison Squires Ph.D., Stanford University
January 24, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Acoustical Methods for Cavitation Control in Shockwave Lithotripsy and Histotripsy
Hedieh Alavi Tamaddoni - Final Oral Examination
January 25, 2019 - 10:00 am
Duderstadt Center (Media Union)
News
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A ‘decathlon’ for antibiotics puts them through more realistic testing Surprise findings could upend the current drug discovery approach for treating one of the most dangerous hospital-borne infections.
January 23, 2019
The University of Michigan’s Sriram Chandrasekaran is using advanced computer simulations to study how different environments affect antibiotic performance.
Read more »U-M BME and Shantou University Shaping the biomedical engineering workforce of tomorrow
December 13, 2018
A new international collaboration is underway, forging deeper connections between U-M BME and Shantou University (STU) in China. The two institutions are working side by side to develop a BME program at STU that will shape the biomedical engineering workforce of tomorrow.
Read more »Has the Olympics changed how it measures false-starts in track? A Q&A with a biomechanics expert who has researched reaction times
August 30, 2018
In 2011, James Ashton-Miller, a Michigan Engineer, helped reveal that Olympic starting-line technology created a different experience for male and female sprinters. It did not accurately detect false starts by women. His latest work provides insights into what may, or may not, have happened since.
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