Bioengineering & Biotechnology

Research and education in bioscience and bioengineering convenes life scientists and engineers to generate faster and better solutions to critical challenges in health care and bio-renewable energy to improve human life and welfare.

Related Research Centers

• BioServe Space Technologies is a research partnership center that works closely with NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to use space for valuable life science applications that benefit humanity.
• Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology partners with pharmaceutical biotechnology companies to form a unique program emphasizing multi-disciplinary scientific education as well as training in non-scientific disciplines critical to the success of the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry.

Participating Departments

The interdisciplinary Bioengineering and Biotechnology initiative is advanced in research programs across multiple engineering departments:

• Aerospace Engineering Sciences — Bioastronautics
• Chemical & Biological Engineering — Biomaterials, Biopharmaceuticals and Tissue Engineering 
• Computer Science — Computational Biology
• Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering — Optics, Nanostructures and Bioengineering
• Mechanical Engineering — Biomedical

Affiliated Programs

• Biofrontiers Institute convenes researchers from the life sciences, physical sciences, computer science and engineering to uncover new knowledge at the frontiers of science, and partnering with industry to make their discoveries relevant.
• Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Program is a PhD certificate program that supports students who have a vision for their research and education and the flexibility to grow beyond the boundaries that define academic disciplines.
• Bioengineering Graduate Program, Anschutz Medical Campus focuses on developing core competencies in life sciences, quantitative methods, technology, and research methods. Students earn the MS, dual MS, PhD, or MD-PhD degree in bioengineering with a choice of training tracks in basic research, clinical applications, or commercialization of medical technologies
• Computational Bioscience Program, Anschutz Medical Campus is dedicated to training computational biologists who aspire to achieve excellence in research, education and service, and who will apply the skills they learn toward improving human health and deepening our understanding of the living world.