Welcome to Penn's Bioengineering Department!  For more than five decades our faculty and students have been applying biology and developing technology in medicine and health, to improve people's lives here and abroad.

We observe, manipulate, simulate, and optimize living systems at all length scales to find solutions to detect, prevent, treat, and cure disease:

• we research and engineer new proteins much more powerful than any drug;

• we reprogram biochemical networks to help stem cells form new tissue;
• we design new important devices to prevent epileptic seizures, to name just a few.

We collaborate everywhere on campus: in the medical school, the School of Arts and Sciences, the dental, nursing and veterinary schools, and with Penn's world-renowned hospitals and research centers--all within walking distance.

Our cross-disciplinary teaching, research, and collaborations within Penn and with industry and other institutions enable us to continue to train the field's next generation of pioneering leaders.

We invite you to explore our programs and to visit us.

Sincerely,

David F. Meaney, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Chrysta Irolla, working with prosthetics in Hong Kong and China with Penn's Global Biomedical Research Program. [pdf]

To hear Chrysta (above) and Ernest "Ted" Gomez talk about their experiences in China and New Orleans, respectively, watch The Campaign for Penn video.