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This is the official account for the department of bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

We develop innovative engineering, technology, and quantitative methods to address grand challenges in human health and sustainability.

09/10/2026

What is graduate school, and is it the right next step for you? Join Illinois BIOE Graduate Programs Assistant Directors to explore graduate education, understand the available pathways, and consider how graduate school might align with your academic, professional, and personal goals.

Monday, September 14th at 12:00pm in 1103 Everitt Lab
Questions? Contact Illinois BIOE at [email protected]

09/09/2026

Thinking about graduate school in bioengineering? Now is the time to plan your next step at Illinois. 🧡🎓💙

Applications are open for upcoming graduate programs in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with opportunities beginning in Spring and Fall 2027.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise through an MS or PhD, build technical and professional skills with an M.Eng., or specialize in biomedical image computing, Illinois Bioengineering offers options to match a variety of academic and career goals, including online and in-person programs.

Check out the upcoming application deadlines at the link in our bio, explore the program that fits your goals, and start your application today!

https://bioengineering.illinois.edu/academics/graduate

Questions about our programs or the application process? Reach out. We’re happy to help you find your next step at Illinois.

09/08/2026

I-L-L! 🔶🔷

09/07/2026

Please join us in Everitt Lab, room 2310 this Wednesday at 12pm for Bioengineering's Seminar Series! This Wednesday’s speaker is professor Jacob Covey, an associate professor of molecular engineering in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. Covey will discuss the opportunities and current state of the art in quantum computing, with a focus on the neutral atom platform and its unique features and remarkable progress. The talk will also highlight work aimed at reducing the resource costs associated with utility scale quantum algorithms.

09/04/2026

Congratulations to Matthew Sharp on his successful completion of NIH Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program! Matthew studied TGF-β signaling in prostate cancer and 3D spheroid modeling, culminating in an NIH poster session and oral presentation. Matthew is excited to return to the lab of professor Rohit Bhargava and bring what he learned to his research there, which is focused on breast cancer. "Working at the NIH, I saw how scientists are working to promote bioengineering at a federal level," said Matthew. "Returning to the University of Illinois, I want to use what I've learned from the NIH to contribute to the cancer research in my home lab."

09/03/2026

Bioengineering Ph.D. student Elizabeth Daniels, working in the lab of professor Susan Leggett, has received a research grant from the ISPB. She is the first student from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to do so. “Receiving this grant is an exciting milestone in my development as an independent researcher,” said Daniels. “It gives me the opportunity to take greater ownership of a research question I’m passionate about and continue building expertise in bioengineering and vision research.” Daniels’ work focuses on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of vision loss among the elderly. Learn more: https://bioengineering.illinois.edu/news/amd

09/02/2026

The bioeconomy is an economic model that converts renewable biological resources into life essentials. While the idea is simple — turning atmospheric carbon into a microbe-friendly food source and recovering leftover nutrients to repeat the cycle indefinitely — the ex*****on is much more challenging. But for Illinois faculty, like bioengineering professor Ting Lu, the enormous benefits are worth the stakes: these minimal-resource technologies aim to bolster energy security and supply chain resilience, promote resource circularity, and address global challenges like climate change and food insecurity. “Biotechnology gives us an ability to manufacture in a different way,” said Lu. “We’re harnessing a living factory — a factory of programmable living organisms that takes up raw materials, processes them, and translates them into something valuable." Learn more: https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/bioeconomy

09/01/2026

We had a great time welcoming our new undergraduate students to campus last week. Looking forward to a great fall semester!

08/31/2026

Please join us in Everitt Lab, room 2310 at this Wednesday at 12pm for Bioengineering's Seminar Series! This Wednesday’s speaker is professor Wenzhen Yuan, Associate Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Director of the RoboTouch Lab. Professor Yuan will present “Making Sense of the Physical World with High Resolution Tactile Sensing,” discussing the development of GelSight and how high resolution tactile sensing can help robots better perceive physical properties, understand objects through contact, and perform complex manipulation tasks.

08/28/2026

In the United States, obesity is a major contributor to health problems and death. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, and respiratory diseases—four leading causes of death—are all exacerbated by obesity. Bioengineering postdoc and first author Natalia Gonzalez Medina, with her principal investigator bioengineering professor Andrew Smith, wanted to find a better treatment that could be more effectively targeted to specific sites in the body. Their new treatment, outlined in a paper published in ACS Nano, potentially provides a superior way to lose weight by using nanoparticles to deliver an anti-inflammatory drug, called dexamethasone, directly into fatty tissue. Learn more: https://bioengineering.illinois.edu/news/a-new-approach-to-weight-loss

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