Curriculum
Programs of Study
The Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program is a full-time program offering an MS, a PhD or an MS en route to a PhD degree in the following areas: Tissue Engineering and Biomechanics, Bioinformatics, Medical Imaging, and Bionanotechnology. It is not necessary to have an MS degree to apply for the PhD degree. For specific courses please click on the focus area to the right:
For course descriptions go to http://www.uc.edu/courses
To Register for classes go to http://www.onestop.uc.edu
Graduation Requirements
The online application is preceded by a set of Graduation Guidelines and Procedures, both of which are accessible through the Graduation link on the Research and Advanced Studies website: http://www.grad.uc.edu
Everything you need to know in order to meet graduation requirements - including deadlines, submitting theses and dissertations, and commencement information - is included on this site in an easy and step-by-step tutorial format.
Please review the guidelines for doctoral students with thesis. Definitions of the categories are provided in the Introduction.
You may want to print out a hard copy of the entire set of Graduation Guidelines and Procedures to guide you through the graduation process. Note that the Graduation Guidelines and Procedures are accessible online to everyone at any time, but the actual Online Graduation Application is accessible only for approximately four (4) weeks prior to the end of each quarter and steps on the application itself may be read and completed only incrementally upon completion of each preceding step.
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Bioinformatics
Biomedical engineers with computer science expertise collaborate with biologists, geneticists, chemists, and physicians to unravel the sequence of the human genome and the function of the proteins that are created by these genes. Experts in bioinformatics computationally model the role of genes, proteins, and neurons (using, for example neural networks) in both normal and disease states.
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Medical Imaging
Biomedical engineers in the medical imaging field work closely with physicians, physicists, and computer scientists to devise ever more sensitive methods for visualizing diseases of the brain and other vital organs. Faculty members at UC and at CHMC are concentrating in medical ultrasound, imaging biological markers of disease, and functional MRI.
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Nanobiotechnology
In this area Biomedical Engineers have expertise ranging from the development of nanoscale medical devices to the nanoscale investigations of biological processes. Research opportunities may range in fundamental studies of biological structures to applied medical device design and evaluation.
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Regenerative Medicine & Biomechanics
Biomedical engineers in the field of tissue engineering interact with clinicians, biologists, and material scientists to repair or replace tissues and organs by delivering implanted cells, scaffolds, DNA, proteins, and/or protein fragments at surgery. Tissue engineers at UC mix cells and scaffolds in culture to more effectively repair and replace injured tendon, skin, and meniscal cartilage, and to deliver pancreatic islet cells. They also provide mechanical and chemical stimulation in culture to accelerate tendon repair.
Biomedical engineers in the biomechanics field study the effects of forces and deformations on biological tissues and structures and seek to learn how altered mechanical forces in vivo influence tissue adaptation. Biomechanists at UC are studying the biomechanics of normal orthopedic tissues in the knee and shoulder and the alterations in biomechanical properties after repair and reconstruction.
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Medical Device Innovation
The program advances existing and creates new intellectual property for commercialization by partnering physician innovators wtih multi-disciplinary teams.