Biomedical Engineering

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In the Department of Biomedical Engineering, we make significant contributions in science and medicine that include new medical devices, biomaterials, clinical methods, and insight into how living organisms function. Our faculty are known for both their contributions to science and their shared passion for teaching and inspiring students to explore new ways to treat disease and keep people healthy.

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The department has been a leader in translational research and the creation and integration of new knowledge across a broad range of areas.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering offers an undergraduate program (B.S) and graduate programs leading to Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Engineering.

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Press Release

New COVID-19 Rapid-test Technology Performs PCR Faster than Similar Tests on the Market

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics team up to develop a low-cost, portable platform that gives RT-PCR results in 23 minutes that match laboratory-based tests More

Jul 25 2022 | By Holly Evarts | Photo Credit: Abigail Ayers/Columbia Engineering, Nicoletta Barolini

Columbia BME Seminar Series 2022-2023

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to host our annual weekly seminar series on the latest developments and research in Biomedical Engineering. More

Aug 09 2022

Aamna Siddiqui Awarded Best Poster at SURE Symposium

Aamna Siddiqui completes the Columbia University-Amazon Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program. As a SURE fellow, Aamna completed 10 weeks of More

Aug 05 2022

August 2022 - BME Blaze: Bunmi Fariyike

In this monthly spotlight, get to know the alumni, students, and scientists of Columbia's Department of Biomedical Engineering. More

Aug 01 2022

Prof. Nerurkar Awarded Major $1.9M Embryo Grant

Professor Nandan Nerurkar has earned a major four-year grant totaling $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of More

Jul 27 2022 | By Harry Kelso | PHOTO CREDIT: NANDAN NERURKAR

Champion Hockey Player’s Road to Science

Columbia Biomedical Engineering Department, the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, and the New York Genome Center welcome new faculty member, Sanja Vickovic, More

Jul 01 2022 | By Lorenza Favrot | Edited by Holly C. Evarts, Madisen Grimaldi and Melanie Farmer

Columbia BME Celebrates Pride 2022

Columbia BME's DEI Committee and qSTEM at Columbia co-hosted a special ice cream social in honor of Pride 2022. More

Jun 30 2022

Columbia BME Kicks Off Summer at the 2022 Department Retreat

The sun was shining, the lei's were blooming, and the faces were smiling at this year's Columbia BME Department Retreat, hosted at Baylander Steel Beach on More

May 26 2022

TISSUE TALKS: Weekly Webinar Series hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Hear from global leaders every Wednesday on the latest research in Tissue Engineering! More

May 25 2022

Columbia BME Celebrates 2020 & 2021 Class Day and Commencement

On May 19, 2022, Columbia students, deans, faculty, staff, parents, friends, and alumni gathered in person for a special Commencement and Columbia Engineering More

May 19 2022

In the Media

Emulating Schizophrenia in a Dish

A chance observation spawns a versatile new strategy for taking on some of humanity’s most vexing psychiatric disorders. More

Aug 09 2022 | Zuckerman Institute

In the Media

Researchers Undertake Challenge to Image Every Cell in the Human Brain at Unprecedented Speed

Team led by Elizabeth Hillman, professor of biomedical engineering, wins $9.1 million research grant to create fundamentally new maps that will chart cell More

May 16 2022 | ZUCKERMAN INSTITUTE

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Columbia BME Hosts 48th Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) 2022

What happens when you gather 500 faculty, researchers, and students from over 75 institutions, all of whom are passionate about biomedical engineering, and put More

May 10 2022 | By Abigail Ayers | Professional photography by Timothy Lee Photographers; Conference Toolkit Artwork by Abigail Ayers

In the Media

Prof. José McFaline-Figueroa Awarded Provost's Junior Faculty Grant

The project, "genetic determinants of tumor-immune cell interactions," was funded through the Office of the Provost Grants Program for Junior Faculty who More

May 09 2022 | Columbia University Office of the Provost

In the Media

BME Postdoc Yazmin Feliz Featured on Cover of Hispanic Engineer & IT Magazine

Congratulations to Columbia BME postdoc Yazmin Feliz (in Prof. Konofagou's lab) on being featured on the cover of Hispanic Engineer & IT magazine. More

May 04 2022 | Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology Magazine

In the Media

Brain Games: How the Mind Performs Under Pressure

What neuroscience and psychology can tell us about baseball – and ourselves. More

May 02 2022 | Image by Brian Stauffer | Columbia Magazine

In the Media

Cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering: Matured multi-organ tissues linked by vascular flow

Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard (lab of Prof. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic) and team make the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Tissue chips with matured human heart More

May 02 2022 | Image: Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard and Ilaria Baldassarri, Columbia University. Cover design: Alex Wing. | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Press Release

Plug-and-Play Organ-on-a-Chip Can Be Customized to the Patient

Major advance from Columbia Engineering team demonstrates first multi-organ chip made of engineered human tissues linked by vascular flow for improved modeling More

Apr 27 2022 | By Holly Evarts

Press Release

New Technology Could Make Biopsies a Thing of the Past

MediSCAPE, a high-speed 3D microscope designed by Columbia Engineers, can see real-time cellular detail in living tissues to guide surgery, speed up tissue More

Mar 28 2022 | By Holly Evarts

Press Release

Engineering an “Invisible Cloak” for Bacteria to Deliver Cancer Drugs

Novel microbial encapsulation system for therapeutic bacteria enables more effective delivery, shown to kill cancer cells in mice More

Mar 17 2022

Press Release

José McFaline-Figueroa Wins NSF CAREER Award

Genomicist focuses on defining the molecular changes induced in aggressive cancer cells after they’ve been exposed to anti-cancer therapy and how those changes More

Mar 03 2022 | By Holly Evarts

In the Media

Neuromuscular junction, how’s that function?

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic: New method allows for realistic, 3D model of this human synapse More

Mar 03 2022 | NIBIB NIH

Press Release

Elham Azizi Recognized with NSF CAREER Award

Computational biologist focuses on characterizing various interacting cell types in the tumor microenvironment to advance the development of improved, More

Feb 28 2022 | By Holly Evarts | Photo Credit: Timothy Lee Photographers

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Helen Lu, Allie Obermeyer, and Theanne Schiros Published in Chem’s UN COP26 issue

Article discusses the future outlook of sustainable biotextile production, covering methods to improve textile industry sustainability More

Dec 07 2021 | By Allison Chen

Events

Dec 02

BME Seminar: Tyrone Porter, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

11 AM–12 PM | Northwest Corner Building, 550 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 501

Feb 10

BME Seminar: Russell D. ‘Rusty’ Lansford, Ph.D., USC

11 AM–12 PM | Online Event

Feb 10

11 AM–12 PM |

Biomedical Engineering at Columbia

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By working at the intersection of engineering, biology, and medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University offers students a unique opportunity to solve problems and better understand living systems and their behavior. From this knowledge comes the development of biomedical systems and devices that improve the health of humanity.