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Join the inaugural cohort of our Bioengineering Ph.D. program, starting Fall 2024.
Applications due December 1, 2023.

To combat the growth of antibiotic resistance, researchers in Mark Brynildsen’s lab are searching for precise treatments that kill bacterial pathogens by weakening their defenses against the body’s immune system. Photo by David Kelly Crow
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The Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute will promote new directions in research, education and innovation at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences while serving as the home for new interdisciplinary bioengineering postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate programs.
Like living organisms themselves, the new Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute is built to thrive as a community, mixing disciplines to create a new synthesis of ideas and techniques that improve the health of people and the planet.
Bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne, who has linked fundamental biological processes at the heart of cancers and neurological disorders to liquid droplets in living cells, was awarded the 2023 Dickson Prize in Medicine by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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