Bioengineers are focused on advancing human health and promoting environmental sustainability, two of the greatest challenges for our world. Understanding complex living systems is at the heart of meeting these challenges.

The mission of Stanford's Department of Bioengineering is to create a fusion of engineering and the life sciences that promotes scientific discovery and the development of new biomedical technologies and therapies through research and education.

The Department of Bioengineering is jointly supported by the Schools of Medicine and Engineering. It includes, in a single department, research and teaching programs that embrace biology as a new engineering paradigm and apply engineering principles to medical problems and biological systems.

Bioengineering faculty, staff, and students are inventing the future of biomedicine.

Stanford Graduate Students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall win IEEE Student Humanitarian Supreme Award

Bioengineering student Richard Gaster and Electrical Engineering student Drew Hall were awared the "Student Humanitarian Supreme" award by the IEEE in their Change the World Competition. The Change the World Competition is a world-wide contest designed to recognize students who identify a real-world problem, apply engineering, science, computing and leadership skills to solve it, thereby benefiting humanity or their community.

Richard and Drew were selected from over 200 students across the world. Their project used technology to help with the diagnosis of disease.

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