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Rice Bioengineering is a top-ranked department with a community of researchers inspired by the pursuit of the unknown, pursuing pathbreaking research, providing unsurpassed teaching and contributing to the betterment of our world. The mission of the Rice University Department of Bioengineering at Rice University is to:

- Perform basic and translational research and education at the interface of biology and engineering.
- Build interdisciplinary partnerships to identify important problems.
- Develop and translate bioengineering solutions.
- Train next generation of leaders in the bioengineering field.
- Solve pressing global health care problems and address challenges in basic research. The Rice Bioengineering program is a comprehensive training program that provides the student with:

- A fundamental understanding of the life and medical sciences.
- Advanced analytical and engineering capabilities.
- Translational research capability for transferring biotechnical advances from bench to bedside

With this educational background, graduates will be well prepared to participate in independent or collaborative research and development endeavors in industry or academia.

See you October 21-24 at ! Be sure to stop by the Rice Bioengineering booth #710 to meet our faculty and students and ...
10/13/2026

See you October 21-24 at !

Be sure to stop by the Rice Bioengineering booth #710 to meet our faculty and students and learn more about how Rice University bioengineers are advancing biomedical research in the world's largest medical center.

Throughout the conference, our faculty, postdocs and students are involved in nearly 70 presentations. Check out the full schedule and make plans to connect with Rice Bioengineering at the BMES annual meeting. https://www.xcdsystem.com/bmes/program/DK65KOW/index.cfm?pgid=491

What if a living pharmacy could produce therapeutics directly inside the body?Rice bioengineers are making this a realit...
10/09/2026

What if a living pharmacy could produce therapeutics directly inside the body?

Rice bioengineers are making this a reality with a new durable implant set to enter the clinic in 2027. The implantable “living pharmacy” uses engineered protein producers that could one day deliver medicines continuously for months or years from a single procedure.

This research is led by Rice Bioengineering's Omid Veiseh, along with his lab members Cody Fell, Anthony E. Davis and Shalini Pandey, with support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad. https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice-biotech-launch-pad-invents-living-pharmacy-designed-produce-therapeutics-inside-body

Yesterday, we had the privilege of welcoming Steven George, Edward Teller Distinguished Professor at the University of C...
10/02/2026

Yesterday, we had the privilege of welcoming Steven George, Edward Teller Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, to the Rice Bioengineering Colloquia Series.

Hosted by Rice Bioengineering and Professor Julea Vlassakis, George shared key findings from his research related to immune cell and extracellular trafficking in 3D tissue microenvironments.

Thank you to Professor George for sharing research with Rice Bioengineering!

We look forward to welcoming Dr. Steven C. George, Edward Teller Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of ...
09/29/2026

We look forward to welcoming Dr. Steven C. George, Edward Teller Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Davis, as our next Bioengineering Colloquia Series speaker.

Join us Thursday, October 1 to learn about his lab's use of microfluidic technologies. https://ow.ly/BiKX50ZSFJ0

💠 “Microfluidic Technologies: Designing the microenvironment to interrogate immune cell and extracellular vesicle trafficking”
🗓️ October 1
⏰ 12:10 pm
đź“ŤBRC 280

Yesterday, we were honored to welcome Delphine Dean, Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor and Chair of Bioen...
09/25/2026

Yesterday, we were honored to welcome Delphine Dean, Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University, to the Rice Bioengineering Colloquia Series.

Hosted by Rice Bioengineering and Professor Antonios Mikos, Dean shared insights from her work taking disease diagnostic technologies to low-resource settings from Tanzania to South Carolina—and how her lab is engineering approaches for emerging public health challenges.

Thank you to Professor Dean for sharing research with Rice Bioengineering!

On September 24, we will welcome Dr. Delphine Dean, the Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor and Chair of Bi...
09/19/2026

On September 24, we will welcome Dr. Delphine Dean, the Ron and Jane Lindsay Family Innovation Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University, as part of the Rice Bioengineering Colloquia Series.

She will discuss work from her lab that spans fundamental questions about how cells respond to their environment to emerging global health technologies

đź’ˇEngineering Across Scales: From Cellular Responses to Global Health Technologies
🗓️ September 24
⏰ 12:10 PM
đź“ŤBRC 280

Learn more: https://events.rice.edu/event/437023-bioengineering-colloquia-series-engineering-across-sc

Bringing the future of biotechnology into the classroom.BuoyBeads, a hands-on biotechnology kit developed in the laborat...
09/17/2026

Bringing the future of biotechnology into the classroom.

BuoyBeads, a hands-on biotechnology kit developed in the laboratory of Rice bioengineer George Lu, allows high school students to create living materials while exploring advanced science concepts typically taught at the university level.

Alumnus Eugene Chung led the kit’s development and continues to oversee the project as it expands to schools across Texas and Louisiana.
https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice-developed-buoybeads-bring-biotechnology-lessons-high-school-classrooms

MusiQ Bio, co-founded by Rice Bioengineering alumnus Manwal Harb, has received a $2.6 million grant from the Cancer Prev...
09/15/2026

MusiQ Bio, co-founded by Rice Bioengineering alumnus Manwal Harb, has received a $2.6 million grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute to advance immunotherapy for breast cancer.

The grant will support the clinical development of an ultrasound-based precision drug delivery system for treatment-resistant breast cancers.

While at Rice, Manwal was a doctoral student in Jerzy Szablowski’s lab. Congratulations to Manwal and the MusicQ team on this milestone. https://engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-alumnus-startup-receives-26-million-cprit-grant-advance-immunotherapy-breast-cancer

What would it take to eliminate disease? On Day 2 of the International Society for Engineering Health's first annual sum...
09/11/2026

What would it take to eliminate disease?

On Day 2 of the International Society for Engineering Health's first annual summit, we are building on critical conversations that address this bold question.

Rice University president Reginald DesRoches opened up today's convening, highlighting innovations in health as one of Rice's key core priorities. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, shared video remarks on the potential for technological innovation to eliminate sepsis and encouraged the society's pursuit of moonshot achievements for humanity.

Throughout the summit, we are hearing from distinguished scientists, clinicians and innovators on the possibilities of eliminating stroke, cancer, schizophrenia, monogenic diseases, Alzheimer's Disease and sepsis. This afternoon, the group will discuss emerging disruptive technologies as ISEH establishes its disease targets.

Today at Rice University, distinguished clinicians, innovators and scientists from around the world are gathering for th...
09/10/2026

Today at Rice University, distinguished clinicians, innovators and scientists from around the world are gathering for the first International Society for Engineering Health annual summit.

The charge: answer the bold call to engineer the elimination of diseases.

Co-organized by Rice Bioengineering's Gang Bao, the program opened with ISEH president Dr. Roderic Pettigrew's overview of the society's epic vision. Dr. Phillip Sharp, Nobel laureate and Professor Emeritus at MIT, and Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the NIH, inspired attendees to plan the future of healthcare by aiming high.

A morning panel discussion set the foundation for the next two days of discussion on how scientists, funders, industry and patients can work together to move forward bold discoveries to improve human health. Moderated by Dr. Reed Omary, the panelists included Patrick Clayton of Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; Arthur Kaindl, CEO of Varian; Michael King, Rice Bioengineering professor and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) president; Wil Ngwa of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H); and Elizabeth Schumacher, CEO of Affinity Strategies.

We look forward to the next two days of keynotes, panels and discussion as this distinguished group establishes ISEH's disease targets.

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