Changing the Way of Medicine

Researchers in the UA Department of Biomedical Engineering are combining technology and medicine like never before to create products that improve care and outcomes for patients with cancer, heart disease and vision loss.

They are developing imaging to detect ovarian cancer in its earliest stages, creating artificial hearts and retinal implants, developing wearable health monitor technology and improving surgical procedures for brain cancer.

Focus Areas

UA biomedical engineering research focus areas include the following: 

• Biomedical imaging and spectroscopy
• Biomedical informatics
• Bioinstrumentation and devices
• Biomaterials and tissue engineering
• Biomechanics
• Biosensors
• Cardiovascular biomedical engineering
• Neuroengineering
• Nanomedicine

Research Centers and Facilities

BME faculty and students collaborate extensively across UA colleges in the following major centers: 

• Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation
• BIO5 Institute
• College of Medicine, Center on Aging
• Data Science Institute
• Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
• Institute of the Environment
• Sarver Heart Center
• Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center (AEMRC) Tucson
• Research, Discovery & Innovation
• UA Cancer Center

See UA College of Engineering-affiliated Research Centers and Institutes.