Successfully solving the world’s greatest medical challenges requires an interdisciplinary approach to health and technology. From toxicology to gene therapy to nanobiotechnology, the most striking advances come from examining the inner workings of the human body through multiple lenses. Whether we’re 3-D printing organs, developing new methods of mobility, or detecting cancer before it even begins, we’re using systems thinking and engineering expertise to chart the future of health and biomedicine.

Health and biomedicine videos

Dec 5

Health & Biomedicine

CMU-developed artificial lung gives lift to DARPA project

Keith Cook joins a multi-institutional, DARPA-funded project to create a novel ECMO and advanced life-support system device capable of rapid deployment to support wounded military personnel.

To support the development of new therapies for neurodegenerative disease and advance biohybrid robots, Jessica Zhang and Victoria Webster-Wood will lead a project to develop computational tools to predict neuron growth and transport regulation.

Biological neural circuits critical for neurodegenerative disease therapy and biohybrid robot control

Nov 7

Artificial Intelligence

Engineering entrepreneurs find their way

When faculty and students in the College of Engineering create intellectual property, our culture supports their efforts to form startups.