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.

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News

  • Three people in a room with industrial equipment. Two are looking up at machines in front of them; the other is looking at the people next to him and smiling.

    Formerly incarcerated students dive into engineering research

  • Upper-body portrait of man and woman

    Major gift from Gilbert Omenn ’61 and Martha Darling *70 names bioengineering institute

  • Group of researchers gathered around computer screen in a lab.

    At new institute, quest for better lives starts with curiosity

  • Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots.

    Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

  • Junior faculty awards recognize excellence in research and teaching

  • Princeton selected to lead NSF-funded regional consortium for photonics research and workforce development

Events

  • September 27

    4:00 pm

    Decoding Human Gut Microbiome Interaction Networks for Precision Therapeutics

  • September 29

    8:30 am

    Princeton Precision Health – Fall Symposium Program

  • October 11

    4:00 pm

    Multiscale Control of Dynamic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

  • October 31

    3:00 pm

    Morphodynamics of Growing Multispecies Microbial Colonies

Faculty

  • José Avalos

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

  • Clifford Brangwynne

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Bioengineering Initiative

  • Mark Braverman

    Computer Science

  • Pierre-Thomas Brun

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Mark Brynildsen

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Stephen Chou

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Daniel J. Cohen

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Jonathan Conway

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Sujit Datta

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Pablo Debenedetti

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Adji Bousso Dieng

    Computer Science

  • Jianqing Fan

    Operations Research and Financial Engineering

  • Tian-Ming Fu

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Bioengineering Initiative

  • David Graves

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Peter Jaffé

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Niraj Jha

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Jerelle Joseph

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Bioengineering Initiative

  • Andrej Kosmrlj

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • A. James Link

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Celeste Nelson

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Yuri Pritykin

    Computer Science

    Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

  • Peter Ramadge

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Ben Raphael

    Computer Science

  • Kaushik Sengupta

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Sebastian Seung

    Computer Science

    Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)

  • Mona Singh

    Computer Science

    Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

  • Jaswinder Singh

    Computer Science

  • Robert Stengel

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Howard Stone

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • James Sturm

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Sankaran Sundaresan

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Olga Troyanskaya

    Computer Science

    Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

  • Naveen Verma

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Aimy Wissa

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Ellen Zhong

    Computer Science