Category: Students
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BME Graduate Student Council Strengthens Community through Academic, Wellness, and Social Programming
BME’s Graduate Student Council’s work is grounded in a clear goal: helping students feel supported throughout the demands of graduate training.
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BMES at Michigan: Building skills and fostering community
U-M’s BMES chapter provides skill- and community-building opportunities for students seeking professional development and networking.
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Beta Mu Epsilon fosters professionalism, mentorship, service, and design among Michigan BME students
Student-led organization connects undergraduates through professional development, outreach and a signature Innovation Day competition.
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Machine learning platform predicts how microbes may influence colon cancer drug response
U-M BME researchers developed an interpretable AI framework to identify drug combinations that may work better or worse depending on the bacteria present in the tumor microenvironment.
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BME’s Recent Summer Workshops @ Michigan Highlighed Engineering in Cardiovascular Medicine
This two-day workshop brought together leaders in cardiovascular tissue engineering, computational modeling and AI, targeted therapies, and medical devices to advance collaboration across engineering and clinical care.
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U-M BME to Expand AI Engineering Education with New Master’s Pathway
A new Master’s of Engineering degree in Artificial Intelligence Engineering will prepare biomedical engineers to apply AI and machine learning to real-world challenges in health, medicine, and biotechnology.
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Symposium Highlights Breakthroughs in Neural Engineering
This year’s presentations spanned from brain-computer interfaces and deep brain stimulation to regenerative peripheral nerve interfaces, spinal cord repair, machine learning, neural recording technologies, and neuroimaging.
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Nanoparticles Can Prevent Scars and Spark Nerve Regeneration in Spinal Cord Injuries
By deploying targeted therapeutic nanoparticles, the research team has successfully reprogrammed immune cells at the injury—not just halting damage, but actively driving a pro-regenerative response that prevented scar formation and stimulated nerve regrowth.
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Following the Fibers: Uncovering a Vascular Clue in Lung Fibrosis
A new study published in Advanced Science, led by Dr. Brendon Baker, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, examines a long-understudied participant in this process: the lung’s extensive network of blood vessels.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Autoimmunity: U-M BME Researchers Awarded $2.5M NIH Grant to Track Immune Cell Behavior
These foundational tools will initially be used to monitor and evaluate treatments in multiple sclerosis (MS) models, with long-term potential to transform how clinicians track therapies for other autoimmune conditions, cancers, and vaccines.