Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) seeks to transform healthcare for all by providing impactful, enabling, and inclusive education and research at the intersection of quantitative engineering and biomedicine.

Transforming healthcare

Programs

Undergraduate

Additional major: Biomedical Engineering

Master’s

Ph.D.

BME graduates go on to...

Work at companies like:

Allegheny General Hospital
Bayer
Deloitte
General Electric
Google
Johnson and Johnson
L'Oreal
Medtronic
Merck
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Pursue graduate degrees or careers in academia at universities like:

Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ohio State University
University of Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt University

Research areas

Biomaterials and nanotechnology

Biomechanics

Biomedical imaging

Cardiopulmonary engineering

Cell and tissue engineering

Computational biomedical engineering

Medical devices and robotics

Neural engineering

News

Nov 20

Energy & Environment

Dowd Fellowship encourages ambitious student research

Four Ph.D. students in the College of Engineering have received funding to pursue research on valuable, relatively unexplored topics.

A new platform aims to discover novel biomarkers to evaluate organ quality after donation, but before transplantation, and reveal new therapeutic targets to improve donor organ function.

Bringing donor organs back to life

Nov 9

Health & Biomedicine

Boosting oxygenation for transplanted cell-based therapies

To advance cell-based therapies, researchers have identified a novel device that makes on-site oxygen for biological cells transplanted inside the body.

Research paper

Oct 23

Health & Biomedicine

Curing cancer is not enough

Colette Bilynsky pursues both cancer research and health policy to ensure that potential cures are affordable and accessible to all.

Oct 17

Advanced Manufacturing

3D micro-ice printing for medical applications

Carnegie Mellon researchers receive funding from the Manufacturing Futures Institute to continue work on 3D micro-ice printing for medical applications.

Oct 4

Health & Biomedicine

Curating sustainable meat alternatives

Using cellular agriculture, the Abbott lab is working on a sustainable meat alternative that is safe and tastes good, without needing to sacrifice any animals.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

ARPA-H fast tracks development of new cancer implant tech

ARPA-H has awarded $45 million to a multi-institutional team of researchers to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths.

Zeynep Ozkaya’s work in Jana Kainerstorfer’s biophotonicslab has helped her to better understand the signal processing principles she is learning in her electrical engineering courses.

Relationships are key to the research and the researchers

Aug 25

Robotics

Student works on tiny bio robots

Lameck Beni, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, conducted research on small biodegradable robots that have important medical applications.

Jul 31

Cybersecurity

2023 Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced

Xi (Charlie) Ren, Victoria Webster-Wood, and Ding Zhao have received the honor for their contributions to their respective fields.

Jul 28

News & Events

Engineering alumni double team innovation in sport

Two CMU materials science and biomedical engineering alumni are at the forefront of the development of an airless basketball made through additive manufacturing techniques.

Jul 17

News & Events

Krause and Abbott receive NSF CAREER Awards

CMU College of Engineering’s Krause and Abbott receive NSF CAREER Awards for their research in materials science and biomedical engineering.

Carnegie Mellon’s entry into online education will provide working professionals flexible access to world class graduate-level training in emerging and evolving technologies.

New online graduate certificates to launch this fall

Jun 30

Health & Biomedicine

Improving patient care through ingestible sensing capsules

A team of CMU researchers is seeking an alternative to endoscopies for patients with gastrointestinal diseases with fewer risks and more convenience through digestible gelatin-based sensors.

Jun 14

Energy & Environment

Now printing: seaweed-based, biodegradable actuators

We are one step closer to naturally compostable robots now that researchers at Carnegie Mellon can print actuators using a bio-ink made from seaweed.

Jun 2

Energy & Environment

Forbes includes six CMU alumni in 30 Under 30 in Energy

Six alumni were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for their groundbreaking startup companies.

May 19

Health & Biomedicine

After-school bioprinting course activates imagination, new skills

A new course led by CMU biomedical engineers at the Citizen Science Lab is teaching middle- and high-school students from underserved communities the processes involved in soft-tissue biofabrication.

Apr 12

Energy & Environment

Dowd Fellowship supports “high-risk, high-reward” research

Each year, thanks to a generous gift from alumnus Philip Dowd (B.S. MSE ’63) and his wife Marsha, the Dowd Engineering Seed Fund for Graduate Student Fellowships supports a year of doctoral expenses for multiple Ph.D. students.