Bioengineering News

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

A Lasting Legacy

Saying “utmost thanks” to an impactful professor and undergraduate program director in Bioengineering

Fall 2025 Senior Design Expo

Student innovation on display at the Fall 2025 Senior Design Expo

Renerva Inc. approved for first-in-human FDA clinical trials

Pitt-based startup aims to reduce chronic pain in amputees and prevent painful neuroma formation

Transforming Ideas into Impact

Pitt Bioengineering’s research and master’s programs drive collaborative innovation

Unfolding the truth about bladder function

Pitt team reveals new insights on how the bladder actually works

‘Czech’ your bags to Prague this summer

Scholarships available for Plus3 Transfer Plus: Czech Republic

William R. Wagner Elected International Fellow of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials

Pitt Engineer and Surgeons Unveil Wireless Metamaterial Spinal Implants That Feel, Heal, and Communicate

NIH awards $352,213 R21 grant to Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton to develop and test novel monitoring technology in vivo

These Pitt researchers are making steady progress toward a confident gait

Introducing our new CMI Fellow: Jana Citrenbaum

Two Pitt Bioengineering PhD Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

Four Bioengineering PhD Students receive NIH F31 Fellowships

Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers

CampBioE 2.0 adds 3D bioprinting in 2025 expansion

Susan Shea is a collaborator on a red blood cell research project