Bioengineering News

Bioengineering Department Celebrates Spring 2026 Graduates

Satyaj Bhargava wins Emma W. Locke Memorial Award

Real Problems, Engineered Solutions

Pitt Engineering Students Showcase Their Breadth and Depth at Spring 2026 Design Expo

Shannon Lamb receives GPSG Leadership and Service Award

Five Swanson School Students Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows

Kurt Beschorner Named American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) Fellow

Three Bioengineering Professors inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows

Steven Abramowitch, Aaron Batista, and Julie Phillippi honored in D.C. ceremony

Bioengineering Faculty earn SSOE named professorships, fellowships

Swanson School of Engineering climbs in U.S. News graduate rankings

Electrical engineering posts largest gain; school maintains Top 25 public ranking

Stitching Precise Patterns - with Lasers

Pitt engineers develops new control over laser-made bioelectronics

The brain’s power could also help predict its decline

A $3.3 million NIH award will help design multiscale models of how the brain’s metabolism can change the risk for dementia

Setting out on Sabbatical

Pitt engineering professors reflect on the uniquely rewarding experience of taking a sabbatical overseas

Layla Banihashemi receives Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine

Swanson School of Engineering Recognizes Gregory J. Carlin as its 2026 Distinguished Alumnus in Bioengineering

Welcome Our New CMI Fellow: Connor Page

High field imaging with an ultra-high impact

7T MRI proven more effective than 3T, can reduce study cost and scale

Pitt engineering students take innovative fertility device to ACC InVenture Prize competition

William R. Wagner receives the BMES Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award

On its 75th Anniversary, NINDS Celebrates Pitt’s Spinal Cord Research

Research led by Pitt scientists and physicians helps to restore motor function for patients who’ve suffered strokes, injury or neural degeneration.

Richard Debski named Co-Editor-in-Chief of ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Two Swanson School Alumni named Pittsburgh 30 Under 30

Two former students were recognized for their early-career impact in Pittsburgh

Bioengineering team wins ASME Grood Interdisciplinary Team Science Medal

Abramowitch and Moalli were recognized for interdisciplinary research in the field.

ISHLT Honors Robert Kormos with Amanda W. Rowe Distinguished Service Award

An Open Source Breakthrough in Hemodynamics

Shiwarski’s HemoLens introduces low cost, open source pressure myography tool for researchers

CMI Announces First Round of 2026 Early Stage Pilot Funding

Apply by March 1, 2026