Bioengineering research and educational activities are motivated by a wide variety of clinical challenges. The proximity of the Stanford Medical Center and the Packard Children’s Hospital promotes daily interactions between bioengineers and clinical partners.
Our clinical mission supports the Stanford Medicine Institutes including the Cancer/Stem Cell Biology Institute, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, The Neuroscience Institute at Stanford and the Immunology, Transplantation and Infection Institute. The department also collaborates closely with the departments of surgery, radiology, orthopaedics, psychiatry, neurosurgery, medicine, vascular surgery, pediatrics, otolaryngology and other clinical departments and divisions. Some specific clinically motivated research projects are highlighted below.
Cardiovascular medicine
- Tissue engineering to repair heart tissue
- Intravascular imaging to improve diagnoses
- Surgical simulation for predictive medicine
- Vascular tissue engineering
Neurology and neurosciences
- Treatment of movement disorders in children and adults
- Neural engineering for depressive disorders
- Neural cell regeneration
Cancer
- Pharmacogenomics to assess how variation in genetics affects individual responses to drugs
- Bioprocess engineering for efficient synthesis of personalized medicines
Orthopaedics
- Improved mobility for persons with musculoskeletal diseases
- Analysis of developmental deformities of the skeleton
- Tissue engineering of bone and cartilage
- Surgical navigation for minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery
