At the interface of engineering and medicine, bioengineering is an inherently interdisciplinary field with societal impact. With a focus on development of an entirely new classes of products, instrumentation, and implants, the field of bioengineering is poised for growth with the impact to human health extraordinary.
Innovative Education and Research
Experiential learning is the heart of a Northeastern education. From project based coursework and teaching labs to research opportunities and co-op there is a range of opportunities to apply classroom learning to the real world.
BS, MS, and PhD Degrees
Students work alongside highly accomplished faculty conducting research in state-of-the-art labs designed for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in areas that encompass the entire breadth of biological and biomedical engineering.
Research Areas
With a 3000 square foot makerspace including 18 tables and state-of-the-art equipment, undergraduate students have the space, capabilities, and environment to work and innovate together on capstone, research, and teaching projects.
Capstone DesignSpotlight Stories
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong and BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to outstanding early career scientists.
Engineering In Action
World-Renown Co-op Program
Ella Strzegowski, BS, bioengineering, embarked on a co-op at Moderna just as the company was applying for its biologics license and COVID-19’s Omicron variant was tearing through the population. Her experience placed her at the epicenter of Covid-related research even as the virus—and the world’s response to it—changed by the day.
PhD Research for Impact
Lauren Cole, PhD, bioengineering, has dedicated her Northeastern research to understanding the medicinal properties of certain plants, especially in the production of chemotherapy drugs. Shedding light on how plants can be engineered to produce these beneficial molecules, she’s shared her research in published journal articles and an award-winning conference presentation.
World-Renown Experiential Learning
Originally from Nigeria, OluwaFemi Koledoye, MS, bioengineering, pursued a cell and tissue concentration at Northeastern—hoping to return home with the training to bring change to healthcare in West Africa. His hands-on experience of the biopharmaceutical industry, including a co-op, gave him the tools to realize his ambitions.
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
Patent for Robotic Aquaculture System
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Joseph Ayers, MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar, ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic, and CEE/MES Associate Professor Amy Mueller were awarded a patent for “Robotic aquaculture system and methods.”
Two BioE Students Receive NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions
Meet the two bioengineering students who were honorable mentions of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards, Kaitlyn Ramesh and Victoria Williams.
Fungi Could Be Used To Build Homes One Day. Meet the Researchers Trying To Make It Possible
BioE Senior Research Scientist Avinash Manjula-Basavanna was quoted in the CNN article “Fungi Could Be Used To Build Homes One Day. Meet the Researchers Trying To Make it Possible.” He provided insight on a new study using living beings, such as fungi and bacteria, as construction materials.
Short Bursts of Mechanical Stress on Epithelial Cells Can Trigger Lasting Biological Response
Ning Wang, BioE professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, and a team of researchers published “Mechanomemory After Short Episodes of Intermittent Stresses Induces YAP Translocation via Increasing F-actin” in APL Bioengineering.