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Penn BMES Wins National Commendable Achievement Award
The University of Pennsylvania’s chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) has been recognized nationally with the Commendable Achievement Award, the second-highest honor given to student chapters by the national BMES organization. The award celebrates Penn BMES’s exceptional efforts to build community, foster professional growth, and expand the reach of bioengineering at Penn and beyond during the 2024–2025 academic year.
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Nick Marzolini Named 7th Recipient of the Michael S. Brown Fellowship
Penn MD/PhD student recognized for outstanding potential as a physician–scientist developing targeted genetic therapies. Nick Marzolini, an MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 7th annual recipient of the Michael S. Brown Fellowship, awarded each year to one MSTP student for “outstanding potential as a physician–scientist.”
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Summer Research Spotlight: Penn Bioengineering Fellows at Work
Each year, the the Department of Bioengineering seeks exceptional candidates to conduct summer research in bioengineering with the support of scholarships. This summer students participated in the Abraham Noordergraaf Student Summer Bioengineering Research Fellowship, the Blair Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Department of Bioengineering, and the IGEM Fellowship. These scholarships provide a living stipend for students to conduct research on campus in a Penn research lab under the mentorship of a faculty member..
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A Year of Momentum: Penn Bioengineering Looks Back and Ahead
As the fall semester begins and students return to campus, it’s the perfect moment to pause and reflect on the progress of the past year—and to look ahead to the opportunities before us. In Penn Bioengineering, we’ve seen extraordinary growth, momentum, and accomplishment across every part of our mission. From new faculty appointments and landmark research breakthroughs to student achievements and the opening of transformative new spaces, this has been a year defined by innovation and community.
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BE Events
ESE 2026 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture – “Convex Optimization”
BE Seminar – Ariella Shikanov, “Bridging Engineering and Biology: New Frontiers in Ovarian Function Restoration and Fertility Research”
BE Seminar – Neha Kamat, “Harnessing membrane-protein interactions to engineer synthetic and cellular lipid membranes”
Why Penn Bioengineering?
Welcome to Penn, home to one of the oldest and most successful bioengineering departments in the United States. Our undergraduate and graduate programs consistently rate among the top 10 in the country. Bioengineering capitalizes on Penn’s great institutional strengths, including a compact urban campus of 12 separate schools, geographic proximity linking the engineering and medical schools within one city block, and a collaborative, integrated environment.
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