Engineering foundational neuroscience discoveries to improve lives

Neural Engineering

Neural Engineering RNEL

Neural Engineering Cross-Translation Institute Program (UP NExT)

Paralysis, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, blindness, and chronic pain affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. While the scientific expertise to address these challenges exists, progress has been limited by fragmentation across disciplines. Organized by the Department of Bioengineering, UP NExT is Pitt’s response to that gap, bringing together researchers across engineering, medicine, and the sciences to develop technologies that treat disease, restore function, and improve the lives of those affected by neurological injury.

24
Faculty
$22M+
In Annual Research Funding
5
Research Areas
1 Goal
Delivering Discoveries to Patients

News

Engineering enters the operating room

Engineering enters the operating room

Until he stepped into an operating room for the first time, Aaron Batista thought he knew a lot about the...

Hunter Family Foundation Funds Novel Approach to Optimizing Parkinson’s Therapy

Hunter Family Foundation Funds Novel Approach to Optimizing Parkinson’s Therapy

Parkinson’s Disease is characterized by a progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons in a region of the brain...

Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

Jonathan Vande Geest distinctly remembers the exact moment he knew he needed a two-photon microscope. A colleague had...

Five Swanson School Students Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows

Five Swanson School Students Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows

Five students from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are recipients of the National Science...

Bioengineering Faculty earn SSOE named professorships, fellowships

Bioengineering Faculty earn SSOE named professorships, fellowships

Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are working on some of neural engineering’s most...

Events

Sep 10

Bioengineering Seminar Series - Jelena Janjic

Jelena Janjic, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics at Duquesne University, will present "From Design to Medicine:...

Sep 17

Savio L-Y Woo Lectureship

Join the Department of Bioengineering for the annual Savio L-Y Woo Lecture. Our guest speaker this year is Kam W. Leong,...

Oct 01

Bioengineering Seminar Series - Damion Shelton

Damion Shelton, Associate Vice President and Executive Director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie...

Oct 08

Bioengineering Seminar Series - Dr. Vikram Chib

Dr. Vikram Chib will present "Fatigue and the State-Dependent Valuation of Effort in Health and Disease." Abstract Our...

Oct 15

Bioengineering Seminar Series - Dr. Shalini Prasad

Dr. Shalini Prasad, Head of Department of Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, will present "Wearable...