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Biomedical Engineering News
BME 50 - The Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at USC Viterbi and Keck celebrated 50 years of excellence and innovation with a two-day gathering
USC researcher Yasser Khan, a 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient, will develop chemical and physiological sensors to help detect neural damage in patients with traumatic brain injury
USC researchers studying human brain tissue found an association between abnormal immature astroglia, cells that play a supporting role in brain function, and lower reasoning ability in older adults with epilepsy.
USC biomedical engineer Maral Mousavi and her students designed LollyLab to monitor health through saliva: quickly, painlessly and potentially for just a few dollars
BME50 - A USC neurosurgeon and engineer argues that the tools to monitor the brain cheaply and without surgery are within reach - and that getting there requires putting engineers where patients actually are.
BME50 - A USC Viterbi bioengineer's implantable device that any researcher can use, modify, and build on is nearly ready for its first animal test. Getting here required reinventing not just the hardware, but how science shares its tools.
Biomedical Engineering at USC
Welcome to the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Since our early roots as an option within electrical engineering in 1963, we have maintained a longstanding tradition of advancing biomedicine through the development and application of novel engineering ideas. Our department, established in 1976, includes over 75 primary and affiliated faculty members that conduct cutting-edge research in a wide variety of areas, including biomedical devices & imaging, cellular & molecular bioengineering, mathematical/computational biosystems, and neuroengineering.
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What is Biomedical Engineering?
Engineering problems exist in the real world, and our obligation is to help solve them, in real time.