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Engineering for Human Health
Scientific discovery aimed at improving healthcare, through interdisciplinary research and education


$ 61,000
Median salary of our 2015-2016 BME graduates
91 %
Undergraduate placement rate
45 %
of our biomedical engineering students are women
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Biomedical Engineers at Iowa are making headlines

CoE faculty play critical role in multi-institutional biomanufacturing project
Thursday, September 7, 2023
A multidisciplinary team of University of Iowa engineering faculty will contribute to a $20 million, multi-institutional project to boost Iowa’s position as a leader in bioscience and advanced manufacturing.

Ankrum, Sander awarded NIH grant to improve wound healing therapies
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Edward Sander, a University of Iowa professor of biomedical engineering and Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in Engineering, and James Ankrum, UI associate professor of biomedical engineering, are co-principal investigators of the study sponsored by a new National Institutes of Health grant.

BME student wins Sharks’ Top Choice award
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Subin Erattakulangara, a University of Iowa PhD candidate in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Sharks’ Top Choice award at a premier meeting for the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in June 2023 in Toronto.
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