Implantable medical devices are designed to repair, replace, rehabilitate, and ultimately restore lost bodily function, but a newer class of these devices is focused on diagnosis. BME's Hyowon "Hugh" Lee and his team are working on smarter, more reliable implantables.

New technology from BME's Sherry Harbin and team may help improve tissue restoration outcomes for people with breast cancer and other diseases or traumatic injuries.

The Purdue University Bravo Awards - “Bravos” - were awarded in December to 72 staff members from 13 units in the College of Engineering, including four from the Weldon School. The Bravo Award Program was established by the University in 2014 to provide recognition and rewards for substantial accomplishments achieved by Purdue employees that extend well beyond regular work responsibilities.

A collaborative team consisting of Purdue BME’s Sherry Harbin and clinicians from IU has tissue-engineered component tissue replacements that support reconstruction of the larynx. The team’s work is published in The Laryngoscope.

Two College of Engineering professors were among a short list of teams who cleared the first hurdle in a multi-stage contest aimed at improving transportation access to persons with disabilities and individuals with mobility challenges.

A Purdue Biomedical Engineering professor has won a prestigious Moore Inventor Fellowship.

The College of Engineering would like to congratulate the following faculty, lecturers and other staff for their outstanding dedication to teaching Boilermaker Engineers!

Four engineers among six Purdue researchers who received a total of $208,628 from the Trask Innovation Fund to help their labs commercialize their innovations.

How do we control a cell to harness its full therapeutic and medical potential? The answer lies where engineering and biology meet.

The way the novel coronavirus tore through the U.S. healthcare system and threatened to overwhelm it in places has brought into sharp relief the need to apply data-driven analytics and optimization in order to hone healthcare practices and service delivery for the next wave of challenges.