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Brightfield photograph of the free-standing membrane Bucky metasurface composed of hundreds of thousands of tilted rod voids
February 5, 2025

Biomedical engineers turn to Bucky Badger to show off metasurface biosensor

When Filiz Yesilkoy and her University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students set out to demonstrate the capabilities of their optical metasurfaces, they wanted to do it with a little school spirit….

Colleen Witzenburg
January 30, 2025

Witzenburg lands MIRA grant

Colleen Witzenburg, the Jane R. and John G. Mandula Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a five-year, $1.86 million grant through a Maximizing Investigators’…

Aarushi Bhargava
January 27, 2025

Bhargava earns WARF Cardiology Challenge Grant

Aarushi Bhargava, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers receiving Cardiology Challenge Grant funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Route 66…

UW Crest with engineering background
November 18, 2024

Benjamin Casavant: 2024 Early Career Award recipient

PhDBME ’13 (BS ’09, University of California, Berkeley)CEO, Tasso A biomedical engineer and healthcare entrepreneur whose patient-centric blood-collection technologies are transforming the traditional approach. While collaborating with an oncologist for…

UW Crest with engineering background
November 18, 2024

Erwin Berthier: 2024 Early Career Award recipient

PhDBME ’11 (Diplôme d’Ingénieur ’04, ENSTA Paris; MS ’07, University of Canterbury)CTO, Tasso A biomedical engineer and healthcare entrepreneur whose patient-centric blood-collection technologies are transforming the traditional approach. In the…

Krishanu Saha
November 5, 2024

Saha tabbed by STAT as CRISPR leader

Krishanu Saha, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is among 10 researchers touted by the science and healthcare media company STAT as leading the way in…

Molly Paras, Zach Spears and Lauren Fitzsimmons
October 18, 2024

UW-Madison biomedical engineers win Collegiate Inventors Competition

University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Lauren Fitzsimmons and recent graduates Molly Paras (BSBME ’24) and Zach Spears (BSBME ’24) won first place in the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Alexandria, Virginia….

PhD student Rebecca Alcock with her dog in Lucerne, Switzerland.
October 1, 2024

Fulbright award sends PhD student to Switzerland

Rebecca Alcock, a PhD student in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Fulbright/Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship to spend 10 months in Switzerland conducting research….

Lauren Fitzsimmons and Molly Paras
September 27, 2024

BME team competes for college inventors prize

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers is one of 10 finalists in the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Current senior Lauren…

Phil Terrien and Matt Knoespel
September 24, 2024

BME spinoffs earn SEED funding

Two companies with ties to the UW-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering are among the funding recipients of the annual State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) program. The first is Atrility…