Experience Bioengineering Professor Richard L. Magin
List of Students
List of Teachers Josephinum High SchoolJennifer Thomas6 Elgin AcademyRoberta Nabor5 Andrew High SchoolRich Mitchell4 Josephinum High SchoolSusan Gordon3 Senn High SchoolSharon Ehrhardt2 Morton West High SchoolRob Bartlett1School Teacher Participant
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Experience Bioengineering What does a bioengineer do? How does he or she apply engineering principles to biomedical problems? What do you have to study to become a bioengineer? Where do bioengineers get jobs? Is bioengineering for me?
What is Bioengineering? l Bioengineering applies engineering methods and techniques to problems in biology and medicine. Biology Engineering Medicine Tissue Engineering Neural Implants DNA Expression Arrays Pumps Pacemakers Prosthetics
l Bioengineering at UIC has a history of successful collaborations in biomechanics, biomaterials, and bioinstrumentation. l Bioengineers at UIC currently work to develop artificial organs (retina, pancreas), DNA screening arrays, NMR microscopes, and targeted drug delivery systems.
l The department is experiencing a rapid phase of growth and development: - Students: 75 Undergraduates, 105 Graduate - Faculty: 8 Full Time, 6 Quarter-Time, 51 Adjunct - Curriculum: - Neural Engineering - Bioinformatics - Cell and Tissue Engineering - Biomedical Imaging - Biomechanics and Rehabilitation - Biomaterials
UIC Bioengineering Research and Curricular Focus Areas Bioimaging Biomaterials BioMEMS Bioinstrumentation Biomechanics Biotransport Neural Engineering Bioinformatics and Genomics Cell and Tissue Engineering
Neural Engineering Neural Engineers use modeling and analysis to understand and control the nervous system. Advances in neuroscience and microfabrication have opened the doors to exciting applications in neuroprosthetics, biosensors and hybrid biocomputers. Fluorescent Stained Myocyte Microfabrication Surface
Neural Engineering Research at UIC Sensory Transduction (neural prosthetics) Neural Networks (signal analysis, motor control) Brain Imaging (fMRI, MEG) Artificial Bioelectric Interfaces (implanted cochlea) Faculty: John Hetling, Christopher Comer, Bin He, Arye Nehorai Synthetic Retina Under Development by Optobionics, Inc. Natural Retina Diagram depicting the goal of subretinal prosthetic devices: replacement of rod photoreceptor cells with silicon photodiodes.
Cell and Tissue Engineering Cell and Tissue Engineering allows one to repair or replace the function of natural tissue with bioengineered substitutes. Principles of engineering, chemistry, and biology are combined to create tissue substitutes from living cells and synthetic materials. Tissue Engineered Skin New Companies: Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc. Organogenesis
Tissue Engineering Research at UIC Cellular encapsulation (pancreatic islet cells) Cell mechanobiology (culturing beating cardiac myocytes) Surface modification of implants (hip prosthetic) Faculty: Tejal Desai, Susan McCormick, Michael Cho Luke Hanley, John Marko, Jens Karlsson LiverPancreas
Bioinformatics and Genomics Bioinformatics combines computer science with biomedicine to develop tools for identifying and understanding the genetic blueprint of life. Genome Annotation (DNA sequence identification of genes) Discover genetic basis for disease (cancer, diabetes) Develop new diagnostic devices (cDNA chip) cDNA Array
Bioinformatics and Genomics Research at UIC Gene discovery (tumor suppressor gene) Functional genomics (protein/substrate binding surface) Gene expression/DNA Chips (colon cancer diagnosis) Whole genome annotation (tuberculosis bacterium) Faculty: Jie Liang, Simon Kasif, Lon Kauffman, Carol Westbrook
Future of Bioengineering Open-Source Biology Human Genome Sequence Heart Cell Regeneration Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Future of Bioengineering Antione de Saint-Exupery Le Petite Prince “Your goal is not to foresee the future, it is to enable it.”