Congratulations Prof. Mahshid! 2025 PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award
The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate Professor Sara Mahshid on being selected as the recipient of the 2025Â

Bioengineering Department Retreat at ºÚÁÏÍø's Gault Nature Reserve
The Department of Bioengineering enjoyed a fun and enriching retreat at the Gault Nature Reserve on Monday, April 28. Faculty and staff came together to connect and share ideas in the reserve’s beautiful natural setting. A big thank you to everyone who took part and helped make the day memorable. The department now looks ahead to another exciting year! (April 2025)

Third Edition of the Sustainability and Synthetic Biology Conference
We're excited to announce that the third edition of the Sustainability and Synthetic Biology Conference is coming up!

BBMESS symposium: coming up in May!
We're excited to announce that the annual BBMESS Symposium is coming up soon! This two-day event will take place in the SSMU Ballroom (3480 Rue McTavish) on May 5-6, 2025. For full details, including the schedule, registration fees, and keynote speakers, please click here.
Prof. Ehrlicher receives prestigious CIHR Project Grant
The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate Professor Allen Ehrlicher for his recent CIHR Project Grant. Professor Ehrlicher's project aims to explore how mechanical forces, such as compression of the nucleus, affect cellular aging and stem cell differentiation, particularly in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS).

iGEM Winter 2025 Applications Open!
iGEM ºÚÁÏÍø is recruiting! Join an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students to develop a synthetic biology project over the course of a year. We spend the winter semester on design, planning wet lab/dry lab projects, as well as related initiatives under our education, media, outreach, entrepreneurship, and finance subteams. The summer is then dedicated to full time wet lab (or dry lab) work.
CUBEC coming up on Jan 25th
The Canadian Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Conference (CUBEC) is set to take place this January 25th, 9am - 6pm, at The Neuro on ºÚÁÏÍø campus! CUBEC is an event bringing together passionate students (CEGEP, undergraduate, and graduate) and industry professionals in the field of biomedical engineering. Events include panel discussions with professionals from both academia and industry, workshops, case competition, and a networking event.

ºÚÁÏÍø iGEM Achieves Gold Medal and Three Nominations at the Grand Jamboree
ºÚÁÏÍø IGEM team proudly secured a gold medal along with three nominations for Best Diagnostics, Best Software, and Best Parts Collection at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Grand Jamboree in October 2024. Composed of students from the Bioengineering program and various disciplines within the Faculty of Science, ºÚÁÏÍø iGEM team is supervised by Prof. Codruta Ignea and Prof. Lisa Munter.
Plenary Speaker - IEEE EMBC 2024
The department of Bioengineering wishes to congratulate Prof. Brandon Xia on being selected as a plenary speaker at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The conference was held in Orlando, Florida. Read more here (July 2024).
Bioengineering brings home the gold!
Voted by the EUS as Department of the Year, a lot of the excitement around Bioengineering's sudden rise to stardom is last year’s 1st place at the 2023 iGEM Grand Jamboree. Read more here (May 2024).
Vadasz scholar leads the way
This year, PhD student, Asia Vighi will be the graduate instructor for the undergraduate team competing at iGem. Vighi is a Vadasz scholar in the Faculty. Read more here (May 2024).
Winning iGEM 2023
Dan Voicu (BEng’26), co-lead of the 2023 ºÚÁÏÍø iGEM team, described last year’s experience as busy! Students formed the team at the end of 2022 and spent the first two months of 2023 ideating their proposal. Read more here (May 2024).