Spotlights

Shivem Shah is one of a new generation of scientists who are developing therapies that will modulate the immune system to combat disease. They are called immunoengineers. A fourth-year biomedical... Read more

"BME has given me the opportunity to be a part of the wider biomedical community. I attended a Medical Hackathon at Johns Hopkins University. We were so passionate about our project that we carried on our project through our Senior Design project." Read more

"I liked that BME taught engineering concepts in the context of medicine. You constantly face challenges in solving real-world problems in lecture, homework, and projects." Read more

"Cornell BME gave us so many resources in the design lab (five 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, all the circuit parts you can ask for), and we were able to completely take charge and mimic the process of taking a product from ideation to market." Read more

"BME allows you to have a broad variety of experience and leverage that interdisciplinary experience in solving problems that face the field of medicine." Read more

"[Cornell is] an environment [focusing] on collaborative work that also encourages individual growth and development." Read more

"I was impressed with all the female students I saw/met, which really drew me in!" Read more

Taylor Oeschger, a 2nd year Biomedical Engineering student working in MAE, and 5 other engineering graduate students traveled to the Society of Women in Engineering Local conference in Baltimore... Read more

Karin Wang earned her B.E./M.S. (2010) in biomedical engineering from Stony Brook University and her Ph.D. (2015) in biomedical engineering from Cornell University. Under the supervision of Drs... Read more

Jenny Puetzer completed her Ph.D. in the Bonassar Lab in 2014. Her research focused on using mechanical stimulation to engineer whole meniscal constructs with native-like collagen organization. This... Read more