William Polacheck, associate professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, has received the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator’s Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), which is a leading professional society for … Read more

The Sode Lab uses biomolecular engineering to create molecules and develop biosensing technologies for application in health care management. The laboratory focuses on creating theranostic biomolecules and biodevices that recognize, sense and diagnose health-related conditions. Research in the Sode Lab … Read more

From Ideas to Solutions: Six projects secured support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) at NC State this year, and for the first time in the CIF’s history, awardees will receive supplemental resources through local entrepreneur and investor Bill Spruill’s … Read more

Rahima Benhabbour, Ph.D., M.Sc., associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, led a successful effort to create an injectable implant that can release effective HIV PrEP medications into the body for six months in non-human primates. This article was originally published by … Read more

The Polacheck Lab is an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who build microfluidic models of human tissues. Researchers use these human microtissue models to study how cells interact with their environment and how these interactions are disrupted in diseases … Read more

The Biointerface Lab’s primary area of interest is the broad application of soft nanomaterials to engineer devices that monitor, mimic or augment biological function. Specific topics of research include wearable and implantable biosensors, organ-on-chip models and human-machine interfaces.