Graduate Program.About the Program
Duke BME Graduate Program
Consistently ranked one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the country, Duke BME prepares graduates to be leaders in industry and academia. Our graduate program engages students early in research, broadens exposure to the discipline, fosters leadership and mentoring skills, offers opportunities for outside internships, and most of all provides an intellectually stimulating research experience.
Why Duke?
Groundbreaking research.
Visit our research section for information on Duke's core research programs, facilities, and faculty researchers - and browse our graduate student profiles to check out student research. You can also search for a particular area of interest.
Excellent mentors.
Duke BME's unique advisory system builds strong mentoring relationships between students and our award-winning faculty.
Close ties with a world-class medical center.
Duke BME enjoys close collaborations with basic science and clinical researchers at top-ranked Duke University Medical Center - which is located just across the street.
Connections with industry.
Duke BME students have a wealth of internship opportunities at internationally respected biotech firms in nearby Research Triangle Park. Over the past decade, more than 50 grad students have participated in internships with such companies as Siemens Medical Systems, Boehringer Mannheim, Genentech, Genetronics, Glaxo Wellcome, Guidant, and Medtronics.
High-quality, low cost living.
Duke BME students study in a collegial atmosphere, with time for both work and play. Outside of school, they benefit from the low cost of living in Durham, consistently rated one of the country's best places to live.
A record of success.
Since 1972, Duke BME has produced leaders in both industry and academics.
Graduate Students in the News
May 8, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounter after graduation, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
The planned curriculum will be open to undergraduates from all majors.
“Duke’s strategic plan, ‘Making a Difference,’ calls for investments in programs that help students ...
April 21, 2008
Two years after receiving prestigious fellowships designed to support women scientists, three Pratt graduate students are well into their research with such diverse projects as brain-computer interfaces, nanoparticle exposures and a new method for breast cancer screening.
In 2006, Katie Hedlund, Christine Robichaud and Christina Shafer were named Clare Boothe Luce Fellows. The fellowship program is the largest such private program for women studying science, mathematics or engineering. More than 1,500 women scientists have received support ...
April 2, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Three Duke University students have been selected for Goldwater Scholarships in science, mathematics and engineering for the 2008-09 academic year.They were among 321 sophomores and juniors chosen on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and
engineering students nationwide. Three of Duke’s four nominees were selected. The award provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses.
Duke’s Goldwater Scholars are Mark Hallen, Nicholas Patrick and engineering student Daniel ...
March 25, 2008
When the severe drought in North Carolina precluded his scheduled monsoon rainwater project, Bob Malkin was forced to devise an alternative experience for his Design for the Developing World course.
In an attempt to simulate on the personal level the experience of poverty, he asked his students to live on $2 a day, just as billions of people around the world do. While the costs of lodging, heat and other utilities were not included in the ...
January 22, 2008
Cyrus Amoozegar, a Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow in the laboratory of Biomedical Engineering Professor Adam Wax, is working to improve a new, light-based method of early cancer detection. The technology, known as “angle-resolved low coherence interferometry” (a/LCI), can distinguish between cancer and non-cancer by measuring features within the cells that cover the outer surfaces of organs, where most cancers get their start.
"It's superior because it is completely non-invasive," Amoozegar said. "Now, doctors have to take ...
January 22, 2008
Yvonne Yamanaka, a biomedical engineering major and Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow, is developing a method for incorporating the genes encoding insulin into cells of the intestine, a promising new method for the treatment of diabetes. Unlike earlier approaches to gene therapy, which rely on viruses to insert new genes into cells, her research in the laboratory of Biomedical Engineering Professor Kam Leong aims to make gene therapies as easy as popping a pill. Such oral ...
December 5, 2007
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke.
by Patrick Ye, BME ‘10
This past summer, I was one of six students on a Duke Engineers Without Borders team that traveled to Uganda. Our goal was to build a rainwater harvesting system to supply a community with a clean and reliable source of ...
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