Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students have won the 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Student Chapter – Outstanding Chapter Industry Award. This award is given to chapters that continually provide their student body with strong industry relations that help with post-graduation decisions.

More than 230 million invasive surgeries are performed worldwide each year – and nearly all of those procedures create additional tissue damage from stitches and staples. Researchers at Purdue University are hoping to significantly decrease that damage with a new surgical adhesive technology.

Neil Armstrong’s voice crackled over the NASA feed almost 50 years ago from the surface of the moon as he proclaimed “… One giant leap for mankind.” It is probably the best-known giant leap in the world, but Purdue’s faculty, students and alumni continue to strive making giant leaps to solve the world’s greatest challenges.

No woman's breast tissue is the same, so MRIs detecting and monitoring cancer shouldn't treat them all the same.

Imagine being able to turn bad fat into good fat inside your own body without exercising, but rather a simple injection

Purdue researchers have created a simple, low-cost, and non-invasive strategy to wirelessly monitor open wound status.

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award to further her research and an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to support commercialization of a handheld disease detection device. Kinzer-Ursem is an assistant professor in the Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

Purdue Research Foundation President Brian Edelman has named Brooke Beier, a Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering alumna, as vice president of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC).

Purdue University researchers are developing a novel biomedical imaging system that combines optical and ultrasound technology to improve diagnosis of life-threatening diseases.

What if instead of daily insulin injections or wearing pumps, just getting a shot every few months could reverse Type 1 diabetes for you – or your dog?