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Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet
In their own words, Stanford bioengineers explain the secret sauce that sets their department apart.
Bioengineers operate in the exciting spaces where medicine and engineering meet, designing molecules and modifying cells with life-changing results.
Bringing these worlds together demands researchers with equal parts intelligence, intensity, and creativity — and perhaps the boldness necessary to buck convention and cut new pathways through unexplored scientific terrain. Whether inventing transformative technologies that allow researchers to control brain cells with light, engineering new-age plants that can withstand climate change, or shaping profound new understandings of why life works — and, sometimes, why it doesn’t — the insights and innovations that come out of Stanford bioengineering benefit people everywhere, every day.
Featured Faculty (In Order of Appearance)
- Jennifer Cochran, professor of bioengineering and, by courtesy, of chemical engineering
- Markus Covert, professor of bioengineering
- Scott Delp, professor of bioengineering and of mechanical engineering
- Norbet Pelc, professor of radiology, emeritus
- Stephen Quake, professor of bioengineering and of applied physics
- Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
- Russ Altman, professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine, biomedical data science, and, by courtesy, computer science
- Rogelio Hernández-López, assistant professor of bioengineering and of genetics
- Hawa Racine Thiam, assistant professor of bioengineering
- Jennifer Brophy, assistant professor of bioengineering
- Michael Jewett, professor of bioengineering
- Paul Yock, professor of medicine and of bioengineering, emeritus
