Department of Bioengineering
Northeastern University College of Engineering
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Research

Convergent research with collaboration across government, industry, and academia

Faculty conduct research as part of the College of Engineering’s multidisciplinary research centers and institutes, such as the Institute for the Chemical Imaging of Living Systems, and the Institute for Mechanobiology, and within their laboratories. 

The department’s research areas of focus include Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Biomedical Devices and Bioimaging; Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering; and Systems, Synthetic, and Computational Bioengineering.

View faculty profiles for laboratory research as well as our recent Annual Reports.

Research at a Glance

Quick Facts

$34M

external research awards (2022-2024)

20

young investigator awards

16

professional society fellowships

47

Full-time faculty

External Research Funding Examples

  • Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
  • American Heart Association
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • The Department of Homeland Security

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Sternad and Krotov Win Best Conference Paper Award at BioRob 2026 for Whip Control Study

COS/ECE University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad and Aleksi Krotov, MS’20, PhD’26, bioengineering, won the Best Conference Paper Award (Second Place) at the IEEE RAS/EMBS 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2026) in Edmonton, Canada for their paper “Hitting a target with a whip: The center of mass as a simplified internal model to control the whip,” which will be published in IEEE Transactions in Medical Robotics and Bionics.

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Unlocking the Secrets of Cellular Memory

BioE Professor Ning Wang explores how cells retain and respond to past physical forces, advancing our understanding of cellular memory and opening up new possibilities for treating aging and various diseases.

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Bajpayee Receives $3.1M NIH Grant to Develop Cartilage-Targeted Gene Therapy for Osteoarthritis

Ambika Goel Bajpayee, Professor of Bioengineering at Northeastern University, has received a five-year, $3.1 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonviral, cartilage-targeted gene therapy for osteoarthritis (OA).

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Haase Awarded $2.2M NIH MIRA ESI Grant to Study Cellular Dynamics

Christa Haase, assistant professor at Northeastern University jointly appointed in Bioengineering and Physics, has been awarded a five-year, $2.2 million R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The award, granted through NIGMS’s Early Stage Investigator (ESI) program, will support Haase’s research program, “From Motion to Mechanism: How Cellular Dynamics Shape Molecular Programs and Function In Vivo.”