Bioengineers at Princeton achieve far-reaching impact by answering fundamental questions about how living systems work while bringing an engineering approach to solving real-world problems. Work in bioengineering aims to improve human health as well as to addressing global challenges such as sustainable food, energy, water, and the need for innovative materials.
Bioengineering and Health

Related Programs
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Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Computer Science
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Molecular Biology
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Princeton Materials Institute
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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Princeton Innovation Center/Biolabs
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
News
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Bioengineers solved a mystery behind cellular droplets with a view to future research and medical treatment
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Prud’homme named to National Academy of Inventors
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Defects in diamond could sense structures of single molecules
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How do you treat untreatable infections? Do what the microbes do.
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Researchers discover differing immune response leads to worse COVID outcomes for men
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After more than 300 years of study, researchers developed a new way to understand bacteria
Events
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March 29
12:00 pm
Deformation and Dynamics of Droplets with Complex Interfaces – A Study of Vesicles, Cells, and Droplets in Biology
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April 05
12:00 pm
Bacteria-mediated Mechanobiological Solutions for Combating Cancer and Implant Infection
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April 05
4:00 pm
Molecular Aspects of Amyloid Proteins and Neurodegenerative Disease
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April 19
4:00 pm
Leveraging the Natural Cellular and Biomolecular Interactions in Blood for the Design of Targeted, Anti-Inflammatory Particle Therapeutics
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April 26
4:00 pm
Microbial Solutions for Capturing and Upcycling Waste Carbon in Recalcitrant Polymers
Faculty
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José Avalos
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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Clifford Brangwynne
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bioengineering Initiative
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Mark Braverman
Computer Science
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Pierre-Thomas Brun
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Mark Brynildsen
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Stephen Chou
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Daniel J. Cohen
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Jonathan Conway
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Sujit Datta
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Pablo Debenedetti
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Adji Bousso Dieng
Computer Science
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Jianqing Fan
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
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Tian-Ming Fu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bioengineering Initiative
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David Graves
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Peter Jaffe
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Niraj Jha
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Jerelle Joseph
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bioengineering Initiative
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Andrej Kosmrlj
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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A. James Link
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Celeste Nelson
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Yuri Pritykin
Computer Science
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Robert Prud’homme
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Peter Ramadge
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Ben Raphael
Computer Science
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Kaushik Sengupta
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Sebastian Seung
Computer Science
Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
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Stanislav Shvartsman
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Mona Singh
Computer Science
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Jaswinder Singh
Computer Science
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Robert Stengel
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Howard Stone
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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James Sturm
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Sankaran Sundaresan
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Olga Troyanskaya
Computer Science
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Naveen Verma
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Aimy Wissa
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Ellen Zhong
Computer Science