Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering continues to attract top graduate students dedicated to advancing healthcare through innovation. Faculty leaders Chi Hwan Lee PhD, Pavlos P Vlachos PhD and Aaron Lottes PhD are shaping the next generation of engineers improving lives around the world.

Purdue BME researchers have developed the first roll-to-roll manufacturing process for color-changing smart bandages enabling scalable low-cost wound dressings that monitor healing in real time.

The Purdue Center for Musculoskeletal Engineering will be a gathering point for current Purdue faculty who work in areas that align with musculoskeletal disease and health, as well as a place where researchers can support one another and foster collaboration. (Purdue University photo)

Research teams led by faculty at both the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Purdue University College of Engineering have been awarded pilot grants through the Engineering in Medicine program, a joint research effort between the two schools.

A Purdue University alumna and a graduate student have been recognized for their invention designed and tested to improve a surgeon’s experience with a commonly performed surgery, resulting in better results for patient recovery time.

Five faculty members in Indianapolis were among the Purdue educators honored Sept. 23 at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence event presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning.

Purdue University researcher Young Kim and his team have combined computer vision, color science and optical spectroscopy to create an algorithm that recovers detailed spectral information from conventional photographs.

When Kristen Cattin arrived at Purdue to study electrical and computer engineering, she could not have foreseen that her path would one day lead her to the highest technical honor at Medtronic. This August, Cattin was inducted into the Bakken Society—an elite group of 209 Fellows out of Medtronic’s 95,000 employees worldwide. The society recognizes the company’s most distinguished scientists, engineers and clinicians for their lasting contributions to patient care.

In the world of biomedical engineering, some of the most powerful innovations are the ones you can't see. Shelley Claridge's latest patent, issued in June 2025, is one of them. A molecular-scale breakthrough that could reshape how we guide cells to grow, heal and regenerate.

In the quiet hum of Purdue's laboratories, where innovation often begins with a question and a whiteboard, Professor Julie Liu and her team asked something simple but profound. What if surgical wounds could heal without staples or sutures, without pain, infection or extra doctor visits?