Affiliated Centers + Institutes

Bioengineering faculty are involved in many interdisciplinary research centers and institutes that span across all SEAS departments and foster collaborations that make possible discoveries requiring many fields of expertise. They are also members of many centers and institutes in the medical school and university as a whole. Follow the links to learn more about all our affiliated centers and institutes.

SEAS Centers & Institutes

• ASSET Center (AI-enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable & Trustworthy)
• Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB)
• Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H)
• Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine (CT³N)
• General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception Laboratory (GRASP Lab)
• The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
• Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology (Penn Health-Tech)
• Penn Center for Molecular Discovery (PCMD)
• Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)
• Singh Center for Nanotechnology
• The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences

Affiliated Centers & Institutes

• Abramson Cancer Center (ACC)
• The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research – Learning in Machines & Brains (CIFAR LMB)
• Center for Cellular Immunotherapies (CCI)
• Center for Complex Biological Systems 
• Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD)
• Center for Neuroengineering & Therapeutics (CNT)
• Center for Soft and Living Matter (Penn SLM)
• CHOP Research Institute
• Institute for Immunology (IFI)
• Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM)
• Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
• Institute of Structural Biology (ISB)
• McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
• Medical Physics concentration for PhD students
• MindCORE Center for Outreach, Research, and Education
• Penn Achilles Tendinopathy Center of Research Translation (PAT-CORT)
• Penn Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
• Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
• Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders (PCMD)
• Penn Epigenetics Institute
• Penn Medicine Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine (PIRM)
• Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn (PSOC@Penn)
• Spatial Epigenetics Center of Excellence (SECOE) (website coming)