Welcome Welcome from the Chairman Welcome to the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern. On these pages, which are updated often, you can learn about the undergraduate program, graduate programs, and research at one of the leading institutions in this field. Since the 1960's, research in biomedical engineering has been performed on the Evanston Campus in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and on the Chicago Campus in the Medical and Dental Schools.
Research is focused in several areas that overlap and interrelate.
Our faculty and students use a wide range of techniques to study problems at levels of analysis ranging from systems to molecular. Much of this work takes place in the nation's most highly rated rehabilitation hospital, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Investigations in this area involve fluid mechanics, cell and tissue mechanics, and mass transport. Researchers in this area study kinetics of antibody and DNA binding reactions, polymers and methods of drug and gene delivery, three-dimensional structures of macromolecules, novel methods for detection for substances in blood and vein grafts. Neuroscientists in BME study vision, audition, motor systems and neural integration.