Biomedical Engineering is an exciting and fast-moving field with ever-changing boundaries. Here at Northwestern we are pushing those boundaries in a number of interrelated areas.
Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation
Quantitative neuroscience and transforming basic neuroscience research into bio-inspired sensing, control, and movement systems. One focus of this work is the restoration of human function via direct interactions between the nervous system and artificial devices. Much of this work takes place in the renowned Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Engineering
Fluid mechanics, cell and tissue mechanics, and mass transport in tissue. Pulmonary, vascular and ocular mechanics. Connective tissue mechanobiology, including skin, ligament, cartilage and others.
Antibody and DNA binding reactions, polymers and drug delivery, implants and biocompatibility, biomaterials, structure of macromolecules, and novel methods for detection for substances in blood.
Cardiovascular MRI, fMRI applications to neuroscience, optical diagnostics using light scattering spectroscopy, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and polarization imaging.
Affiliated Programs
The Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Program
Sensory Motor Performance Program
Prosthetics Research Laboratory and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Program
Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience
VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies
Northwestern Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies
Center for Basic Magnetic Resonance Research
