about.duke bme
Consistently ranked as one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the nation, Duke BME combines a hands-on educational experience and an interdisciplinary research environment that prepares graduates to be leaders in integrating engineering and biology to detect and treat human diseases.
A unique aspect of the program is the integration of research and education. Over two-thirds of the undergraduates are involved in independent study research. And the graduate program offers students early immersion into research. Current departmental research activities include biomechanics of blood flow, cells, and hard and soft tissues; biomolecular and tissue engineering; electrical activity of the heart; neuroengineering; and biomedical optics, biophotonics and ultrasound imaging systems. Duke BME faculty and students collaborate with many departments across the University and the Medical Center.
The department is undergoing a period of significant growth. The recently opened Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science. Over 30,000 net square feet are occupied by BME faculty, staff and students. The space provides new state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities for the department. In 2004-2005, we seek to fill three tenure-track faculty positions.
BME News
July 1, 2008
Professor Jeffrey T. Glass has been appointed Senior Associate Dean for Education, Dean Tom Katsouleas announced on July 1, 2008. He succeeds Tod Laursen, who served in that capacity since 2003 and will now become chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
"Jeff has the ideal background to help the faculty and the departments to develop innovative and exciting new educational programs that respond to the nation’s need for engineers that will be ...
June 19, 2008
Residence hall/laboratory receives state's first platinum LEED rating
DURHAM, NC -- The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University, a 10-person student residence hall for green living and learning, has achieved a top-level platinum standard for its design from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system. The building becomes the first in North Carolina to achieve that standard.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The 6,000-square foot-residence, designed by students and advisers, earned 59 ...
June 6, 2008
By Richard Merritt
Seizures, the often frightening and historically misunderstood outward manifestations of epilepsy, have long challenged physicians and struck fear in patients. Although there are drugs on the market to control seizures, many patients receive little benefit.
But there may now be a reason to hope for some of these patients.
Though the technology is still in its infancy, a new approach to controlling seizures championed by five Duke University graduate students – four from the Pratt ...
June 6, 2008
By Richard Merritt
Seizures, the often frightening and historically misunderstood outward manifestations of epilepsy, have long challenged physicians and struck fear in patients. Although there are drugs on the market to control seizures, many patients receive little benefit.
But there may now be a reason to hope for some of these patients.
Though the technology is still in its infancy, a new approach to controlling seizures championed by five Duke University graduate students – four from the Pratt ...
May 29, 2008
By Richard Merritt
A new technology based on the interpretation of light reflected off cells will make it faster and more efficient for researchers to document how the nucleus, which contains a cell’s DNA and controls its actions, changes shape in response to its environment. The technique will enable researchers for the first time to watch some changes in the living cell as they happen.
The Duke University bioengineers who developed the new method and demonstrated its ...
May 23, 2008
To support his work in the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, DuPont has awarded Lingchong You a three-year research grant as a part of its Young Professor program for 2008.
You, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and researcher at Duke’s Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, focuses his research on the creation of “living circuits” comprised of genetically altered microbes. By manipulating these circuits, You hopes to produce proteins ...
May 23, 2008
To support his work in the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, DuPont has awarded Lingchong You a three-year research grant as a part of its Young Professor program for 2008.
You, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and researcher at Duke’s Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, focuses his research on the creation of “living circuits” comprised of genetically altered microbes. By manipulating these circuits, You hopes to produce proteins ...
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