Biomedical Engineering @ USC
Welcome to the USC Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)!
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, founded in 1976, includes over 80 primary and affiliated faculty members that conduct cutting-edge research in a wide variety of areas, including neuroengineering, biosystems and biosignal analysis, medical devices and implants, bioimaging and imaging informatics, and systems cellular-molecular bioengineering.
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BME Students Win BMES 2017 Awards
Congratulations to BME undergraduate student Tilden Chima ’18 (L) and PhD student Jeffrey Santoso (R) for winning BMES 2017 travel awards. Chima is a 2017 BMES-NSBE Travel Awardee and Santoso is a 2017 BMES Career Development Awardee. Awesome job, both!!
Ellis Meng Honored as ASME and BMES Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Ellis Meng on being distinguished doubly in 2017, as both an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow and Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow. Meng was selected by the ASME Committee of Past Presidents “for contributions to the field of biomedical microelectromechanical systems.” BMES selected Meng because she has “demonstrated exceptional achievements and has made significant contributions within the biomedical engineering field. This individual also has extensive leadership within the field but also has served within the Society.”
Stacey Finley Featured on ACS CrowdRise Site
Stacey Finley has been awarded an American Cancer Society (ACS) research grant to develop a computer-driven model of molecules that stimulate and inhibit tumor angiogenesis. She is featured on ACS’s “Denim Day” crowdfunding website. Check out Stacey’s proposal as well as this fun initiative to raise money for cancer research!
Eun Ji Chung honored with AIChE’s Top 35 under 35, Emerging Investigator, and BMES Career Development Award
BME would like to congratulate Eun Ji Chung for being selected for the American Institute for Chemical Engineers’ “35 under 35 Award.” Chung was recently interviewed by AIChE about the early career honor. Read more. In addition, Chung has recently been selected for the Emerging Investigator issue of Biomaterials Science and was granted a 2017 BMES Career Development Award.
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Postdoc Wins Prestigious K99 Award
Sangpil Yoon is the first USC biomedical engineering postdoctoral fellow to receive the NIH-administered award.
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For Love Of Country
INTRAM, a USC Viterbi student-led team making an app to improve post-stroke care, will represent USC and the U.S. at the NAE’s Grand Challenge business model competition this July.
Featured Labs
Computational Systems Biology
Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory
