Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
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The Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland is the home of an emerging academic discipline, exciting interdisciplinary degree programs, and faculty and students who want to make a difference in human health care through education, research, and invention. Health care is changing rapidly, moving toward more technological approaches to diagnosis (such as body scanners and
biosensors), treatment (including targeted therapy, minimally invasive surgery, and implantable devices), personalized and regenerative medicine, and the extensive use of information technology. Biomedical engineering is steadily becoming the world’s largest industrial sector, and as a result, there is an increasing demand both for doctors who are technically competent and for engineers who are properly trained in basic medical science. James Clark School of Engineering's location in a metropolitan area that is home to an expansive number of health care facilities, medical schools, biomedical research centers, and federal regulatory agencies. We have established relationships the National Institutes of Health (including the The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering and the National Cancer institute), the Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture; educational institutions such as the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, as well as other universities locally and nationally. Our growing interdisciplinary faculty is dedicated to expanding our research collaborations. We are also dedicated to the vision of engineering entrepreneurship—getting science out of the lab and into the hands of doctors, care providers and consumers. Our collaboration with Canon U.S. Life Sciences seeks to develop a highly automated system providing rapid infectious disease diagnosis, and we are a founding member of the FDA-funded Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, which focuses on modernizing and improving the ways drugs and medical devices are reviewed and evaluated. We have a view of the human condition that is unlike many bioengineering and biomedical engineering departments in the country. Our thoughts and ideas are grounded first in biology. Our faculty and students think about biological systems: how they work, how they function, and how they interact with their environments. They think about how nature organizes information and materials into molecules, cells, tissues, organisms and ecosystems that sense and respond to physical and chemical cues. They try to understand processes that go astray, like those involved in disease. Armed with this knowledge, they use engineering principles to develop new technologies and devices that will change lives and improve human health throughout the world.
02/06/2026
BIOE Associate Professor Steven Jay and Ph.D. student Nicholas Pirolli published new research advancing probiotic vesicle therapies for inflammatory bowel disease. Their study, published in Advanced Science, shows how engineered probiotic bacteria can produce therapeutic vesicles at higher levels while maintaining their anti-inflammatory effects, helping move the approach closer to clinical use.
Read more at: https://bioe.umd.edu/news/story/bioe-researchers-publish-study-advancing-probiotic-vesicle-therapy-for-inflammatory-bowel-disease
We are excited to have Alex Xu join the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland and the Clark School! Xu is an accomplished researcher specializing in spatial biology methods applied to cancer research.
08/22/2024
08/06/2024
The Fischell Department of Bioengineering is excited to welcome Nan Xu as an Assistant Professor at the A. James Clark School of Engineering this December.
Dr. Xu is bringing to UMD the INSPIRE Lab, where she and her research team work at the intersection of data science and brain science. Learn more about Dr. Xu's work and lab openings at: https://www.inspirelab.site/
Congratulations to Deborah Goldberg from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland on receiving the 2024 Professional Track Faculty Excellence Award! 🎉 This award recognizes professional track faculty members with outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and service.
Read more about the award at eng.umd.edu/ptk-excellence-award
07/09/2024
Leah Falk, a rising junior in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, is taking over our Instagram today for ! She will be highlighting her research experiences while completing her summer internship! Follow along at instagram.com/umdclarkschool 🐢
06/26/2024
We'd like to take a moment to congratulate our most recent faculty & staff awards winners, starting with the 2024 recipient of The Poole and Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. Congratulations to Catherine Kuo from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland! 🎉
06/26/2024
Congratulations to our next faculty & staff awards recipient, Gregg Duncan from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, who won the 2024 E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty! 🎉
05/20/2024
Congratulations to our graduate commencement ceremony student speaker, Dewansh Rastogi Ph.D. ’23! 🎓At UMD, his research focused on aerosols, particle visualization, and particle capture technology, and he was published in various peer-reviewed journals. Rastogi also collaborated with the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland and the University of Maryland School of Public Health on multiple projects!
05/14/2024
Grace Herron, a sophomore in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, is taking over our Instagram today for ! She will be highlighting her involvement on campus as a Maryland Engineering student! Follow along at https://instagram.com/umdclarkschool 🐢
04/30/2024
Today is the last day to register, and you won't want to miss it!
The Fischell Department of Bioengineering invites our alumni to join us for our second Annual Alumni Reception on May 7th.
Enjoy a complimentary dinner and drinks while catching up with classmates, lab mates, faculty, and staff.
RSVP today at go.umd.edu/bioe-alumni-reception24
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