The Department of Bioengineering has a 3000 square ft makerspace that has 18 tables for team work on Capstone, research and teaching projects.
Microscope image of human airway smooth muscle cells stained with fluorescent calcium dye for asthma research conducted in Harikrishnan Parameswaran's lab.
Student looking through a microscope at cancer culture.
Assistant Professor Mona Minkara sits with her Research Assistant and works on cell configuration. Dr. Minkara is a blind faculty member and she uses these cells to feel and recognize cell types.
Two students engage in a weekly lab for Bioengineering Measurement, Experimentation and Statistics course. All Sophomore students are required to take this lab. They learn cell and tissue culture, biomechanics, computational and other areas within Bioengineering.
Spotlight Stories
NSF CAREER Award to Develop Better Asthma Treatments
Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran, chemical engineering, recently received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Parameswaran seeks to understand how the smooth muscle detects inhaled irritants and generates force at the cellular level to develop better treatment for people with asthma.
Paul G. Allen Distinguished Investigator for Pioneering Single Cell Proteomics Research
Associate Professor Nikolai Slavov, bioengineering, was recently named a prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator and was awarded a $1.5 million three-year grant to further his novel research on single cell proteomics.
Engineering In Action
World-Renowned Cooperative Education
Kritika Singh, BS, Bioengineering, is on her first co-op at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Center for Systems Biology and she is also working on a malaria project to express a difficult to express protein. Her ambition is to be a physician scientist and says co-op will definitely help her achieve that.
World-Renowned Cooperative Education
Aanie Phillips, BS, Bioengineering, says co-op puts into perspective what you learn in the classroom providing an immersive learning experience. She did two co-ops, a clinical one at a doctor’s office, and the other as a mechanical and operations engineer at Virtudent, a teledentistry startup. Aaanie is off to medical school with a full scholarship from her top-choice school.
Recent News
Making Space Accessible to All
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara participated in a zero-gravity flight with a crew of 12 ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities to test how spacesuits and vessels can be made more accessible.
Paul Champion receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
The International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) selected BioE Affiliate Faculty and Physics Professor Paul Champion as a recipient for its Lifetime Achievement Award for “Outstanding Contributions and World-Wide Recognition for Developing novel Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopies to Measure Complex Phenomena in Biological Systems”.
2021 Fulbright Applicants
Rodrigo Blanco Bravo, BioE’22, Hannah Boyce, ChE’22, Lake Jacobs-Skolik, EE’22, and Carrie Tam, CEE’22, are among the slate of 2021 Northeastern University applicants to the Fulbright US Student Program.
Creating a Global Network to Explore Living Systems
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, William Marsh Rice University, and Yale University, is leading a $5.5M NSF grant for “International Physics of Living Systems Graduate Research Network.” Abstract Source: NSF The international Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) graduate research network (GRN) […]