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William Murphy
June 20, 2025

Murphy leads effort for shelf-stable mRNA vaccine pills

William Murphy, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics and rehabilitation, will lead a project to develop messenger RNA therapies that can be stored at room temperature….

Professor Kenneth Lee and the 'Cyst Blaster' team
June 19, 2025

Biomedical engineering students help solve clinical radiology challenges

Each semester, undergraduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s design program take on projects from clients that include community members, companies and UW-Madison researchers. Clinicians and faculty members in…

Adam Vareberg
June 16, 2025

Vareberg earns Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship

Adam Vareberg, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, has received a 2025-26 Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, a prestigious honor for doctoral students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of…

Aarushi Bhargava
June 16, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Aarushi Bhargava

Assistant Professor Aarushi Bhargava joined the department in the fall of 2024. Read on to learn more about her research. What is your research focus?My research explores the application of…

Joshua Brockman
May 6, 2025

Brockman receives NIH MIRA grant

Joshua Brockman, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support…

Filiz Yesilkoy
May 2, 2025

Yesilkoy receives Vilas early career award

Filiz Yesilkoy, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is among the recipients of a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award, one of the Vilas honors available to University of Wisconsin-Madison…

May 1, 2025

Celebrating Innovation: Spring Poster Session and Design Awards

On April 25, we held our annual Spring Poster Session and Design Awards. Our talented students from BME 301 and BME 402 showed off their incredible prototypes to solve real-world…

UW Crest with engineering background
April 8, 2025

UW-Madison engineering graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” The UW-Madison College…

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’…