U-M BME is becoming one of the premier biomedical engineering
departments in the country. Our faculty lead a wide range of programs
in biofluid mechanics, microfluidics, biologic micro and
nanotechnology, BioMEMS, biomaterials, biomolecular machines, tissue
engineering, biomedical optics, biotechnology, biomechanics, and
biomedical imaging. U-M BME is one of the largest BME graduate program
in the U.S. and has awarded more graduate degrees than any other BME
department in the country. The BME program at the University of
Michigan also offers an undergraduate program for students in the
College of Engineering.
The Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department occupies three state-of-
the-art research and educational facilities on the University of
Michigan's North Campus: the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical
Engineering Building, the Carl A. Gerstacker Building, and the
Bonisteel Interdisciplinary Research Building housing the fMRI Center.
The generous support of The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation, The
Whitaker Foundation and The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation has
allowed U-M BME to grow enormously, with new faculty, facilities,
students, and degree programs.
The BME Department continues to foster collaborations among College of
Engineering faculty and researchers throughout the University. As a
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partner, the
department is able to strategically enhance our ability to promote,
develop and realize the potential of clinical research.
Commercialization of new BME technologies is enhanced by access to the
resources of the U of M's top ranked business school and its
worldclass entrepreneurship institute.
In addition to our two North Campus buildings devoted to
bioengineering research and education, we have access to extensive
core facilities in both the College of Engineering and the Medical
School. Shared resources include: fully equipped tissue culture
facilities; small animal facilities with holding and procedure areas;
access to multiple microscopy systems, such as confocal and TIRF
instruments; as well as medical imaging systems, such as real-time
ultrasound and optical scanners and a 3T whole body MRI scanner. The
Michigan Nanofabrication Facility, one of the best university
facilities in the country for the design and manufacture of
microelectronic circuits, is used extensively for implantable
biosensor transducers and bioMEMS devices. A new addition to the clean
room, more than doubling current space, is already underway. Our
Functional MRI Center combines cognitive neuroscience, clinical
neuroscience, and biomedical engineering research. Our Center for
Neural Communication Technology (CNCT) develops neural probe
technologies for interfaces to the central nervous systems.
The College of Engineering, in conjunction with university
administration, has made significant commitments to develop the BME
Department into a premier research and educational department that
helps define the rapidly evolving discipline of bioengineering. Our
long-term programmatic themes are molecular engineered biosystems,
biomedical micro and nanosystems, as well as cellular and molecular
biomechanics.
