The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Established 1973. #PennBioengineering

Joined May 2012
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Congratulations to Yihui Shen on receiving a 2026 Beckman Young Investigator Award. Her project will advance non-invasive profiling of single cell metabolism with molecular precision. Read more: bit.ly/4ebBxTl @BeckmanFnd | @PennEngineers #BYI #beckmanresearch
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Congratulations to Hilda Jafarah on receiving a @PhRMAFoundation Predoctoral Drug Discovery Award! Her work aims to prevent life-threatening irregular heartbeats after heart attack. Watch her interview below.
As a child, @HildaJafarah turned her family’s kitchen into a makeshift science lab to do experiments — that was the beginning of her research career. She is now a PhD student @PennEngineers & #PhF26 awardee! Watch our full interview with Hilda here: phrmafoundation.org/news-eve…
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Congratulations to Ludwig Zhao, @pennbioeng Ph.D. candidate, on receiving the 2025-26 President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life. Zhao was recognized for his leadership within GAPSA, service on University committees and advocacy for research students at Penn. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition, Ludwig! bit.ly/3PJsBN2
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Team Cardion is reimagining pacemaker power. Their work earned the Technology and Innovation Prize at this year’s @PennEngineers Senior Design Competition. Read more: bit.ly/4dyWoB6 #Bioengineering #SeniorDesign #MedTech
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Congratulations to Yash Rajpal, who graduated this year with an undergraduate degree in Bioengineering and received a Penn Alumni Student Award of Merit at Penn’s Ivy Day Ceremony. Read more: bit.ly/4uo10jB @PennEngineers #Penn2026 #Bioengineering #IvyDay
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Team Reel-IV designed a device to help reduce accidental IV dislodgement in pediatric hospital settings. Their senior design project combines clinical insight, rigorous testing and engineering with empathy. Read more: bit.ly/4unUHfX @PennEngineers #HealthTech
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Congratulations to our 2026 Bioengineering graduate student awardees! Recognized for research, academics, leadership and service, these students reflect the strength of the Bioengineering community at Penn. Read the full list of honorees: bit.ly/4v0jjLz @PennEngineers
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At graduation, Brianna Leung (BE’26) leaves more than a project. She leaves a platform. She helped build Enginuity to connect real community needs with student engineers. Now Andrew Yao (BE’28) takes it forward. Read more: bit.ly/4v8msJt @PennEngineers #HMSSchoolCP
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Exploring new approaches to rare epilepsy. Yerahm Hong (BE’26), a 2026 Rose Award recipient, is studying gene therapy strategies that aim to reduce harmful protein production. Undergraduate research in action. Read more: bit.ly/3Pl9OHv #WomenInSTEM @PennEngineers
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From the operating room to everyday accessibility, students in Penn ADAPT are building real solutions for real challenges. Student-led. Interdisciplinary. Impact-driven. How bioengineering goes from concept to real-world application: bit.ly/4cXQaZY @PennEngineers
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Celebrating our 2026 @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees. Recognizing the next generation of researchers driving discovery and impact in bioengineering. Learn more: bit.ly/4d6SL40 #NSFGRFP @PennEngineers
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Congratulations to Flavia Vitale and Ritu Raman on receiving a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Grant from @theNAEng. The $30k grant supports interdisciplinary research sparked at the FOE Symposium, advancing new collaborations and ideas. Their project integrates bioelectronics with engineered tissue systems to enable precise control of cell communication. bit.ly/4tPH4W2
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Celebrating our 2026 Bioengineering undergraduate award winners. Recognizing excellence in scholarship, leadership, research, and service across our community. Congratulations to this year’s honorees. Learn More: beblog.seas.upenn.edu/2026-u… @PennEngineers
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Congratulations to César de la Fuente (@delafuentelab) on receiving the 2027 Biochemical Society Award for Significant Breakthrough or Achievement. His AI-driven approach to antibiotic discovery is accelerating the search for new treatments from years to hours, opening new possibilities for tackling antimicrobial resistance. @pennbioeng / @BiochemSoc bit.ly/41uWymi
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It's almost time for Penn Engineering's 2026 Commencement ceremonies. Save the dates below if you haven't done so already. Doctoral Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026 Time: 3:30-4:45 p.m. Location: Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA Master’s Ceremony Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m. Location: The Palestra, 223 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA Undergraduate Ceremony Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026 Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m. Location: The Palestra, 223 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA For full details on regalia, ticketing, campus information and more, check out the link: events.seas.upenn.edu/commen…
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Discovery. Translation. Impact. See what’s moving Bioengineering forward this month, from Luce Scholars to next-gen mRNA research in the March Newsletter. Read more: mailchi.mp/seas/be-march-202… @PennEngineers
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From studying Bioengineering at Penn to inspiring Ghana's future scientists. Alumna Elsie Effah Kaufmann (@elsie_effah) is helping shape STEM culture and education in Ghana through leadership and national outreach. Read more: newsghana.com.gh/prof-elsie-… @PennEngineers
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Penn Engineers redesigned a key component of lipid nanoparticles used in mRNA vaccines. The new aroLNPs steer mRNA toward lymph nodes, potentially enabling more precise, lower-dose vaccines. “If we can make the delivery process more precise, we can potentially lower the dose needed to achieve immunity,” says Hannah Yamagata, a @pennbioeng doctoral student in the Mitchell Lab (@MJMitchell_Lab) and first author of the study. bit.ly/4sSAspY bit.ly/3NSd2Si
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