Engineering | School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Fifty years ago, Arizona State University researchers contributed to the development of medical technology that is now helping a small but growing number of patients recover from COVID-19.

As we mark 50 years of Earth Day in 2020, Fulton Schools researchers are working to decrease humanity’s carbon footprint and increase sustainability for the health of the planet.

Assistant Professor Xiaojun Tian and Associate Professor Xiao Wang are advancing the field of synthetic biology. They conducted a year-long collaboration with their laboratory groups in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, one of the six Fulton...

Dr. Barbara Smith, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering is helping the research community better understand how addiction affects the brain at the cellular level to better combat this debilitating...

Some grow up and instantly know of their aspirations and passions. For others, a life-changing moment can spark an unknown passion that creates an unwavering flame through all of life’s obstacles. Read more....

Top graduate students interested in entrepreneurship came to ASU to learn business strategies for the first IEEE Brain Neurotech Entrepreneurs Workshop. Read more...

SBHSE Assistant Professor Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah and Assistant Professor Barbara Smith received grants from the Flinn Foundation to further their bioscience research. The projects will create technology to map the brain’s cellular activity during opioid addiction and...

SBHSE Associate Professor Dr. Vikram Kodibagkar and Assistant Professor Dr. David Brafman are combining medical imaging tissue engineering skills to advance regenerative medicine. Read more...

SBHSE Associate Professor, Rosalind Sadleir is exploring how new methods and applications of current technologies can better characterize the body’s electrical properties, especially in the brain. Read...

Nearly half of physical therapy patients are ages 65 and above. Older bodies often have unique needs for therapy, but they’re not necessarily treated with different approaches than younger patients. To get better results, all it might take is a pencil and paper....

SBHSE Assistant Professor Dr. David Brafman and Assistant Professor Dr. Emma Frow published in a paper in the journal Stem Cell Reports, looking at a detailed characterization of nearly 170 direct-to-consumer stem cell businesses across six southwestern states....

SBHSE Assistant Professor Dr. Barbara Smith's development of patch clamp electrophysiology recently appeared in a case study by Scientifica. The lab of Dr. Barbara Smith is the first to incorporate a real-time, photoacoustic feedback system into traditional...

Heather Boysel says the foundation on which she has built a rewarding career in law began forming during an introductory engineering course at Arizona State University. “Even in that intro class, they taught you how to start thinking about things differently,” Boysel...

One of the current paradigms in cancer treatment is not to treat a tumor itself. Rather, therapeutics can focus on a tumor’s microenvironment — the area where tumor cells and a patient’s healthy tissues collide. Mehdi Nikkhah, an assistant professor of biomedical...