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John Witherspoon Gilpin donates $1 million to Clemson University’s Department of Bioengineering The Clemson University alumnus who is donating $1 million to establish a distinguished professorship in bioengineering is a talented radiologist, medical school faculty member and avid marathon runner. John Witherspoon Gilpin said he made the donation because he wanted to support research programs […]

Tanner Rathbone, PhD student in Dr. Renee Cottle’s lab, represented Clemson with a poster presentation at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy 21st Annual Meeting in Chicago in May 2018. Tanner’s abstract was published in the Molecular Therapy ASGCT 21st Annual Meeting Abstracts. Molecular Therapy. 2018;26: 369-370

The 4th annual Southeast Regional Biomaterials Day, hosted by Clemson University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Vanderbilt University, took place November 8-9, 2018, in Clemson, SC. According to Meredith Owen, PhD student and president of Clemson Bioengineering Society (CBS), “The mission of Biomaterials Day is to foster and promote the development of biomaterials research […]

David Mcleod, a junior in bioelectrical engineering at Clemson, is member of Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB), the National Biomedical Engineering Honor Society. Hearing through AEMB about an opportunity to coach fourth and fifth graders at Clemson Elementary, David jumped at the chance. “I just enjoy anything to do with robotics,” he said. Last fall, […]

Milan P. Yager, Executive Director of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, visited the department in early March and met several times with our students. Two, Meredith Owen, a graduate student in Dr. John DesJardins’s lab, and Cody Dunton, a graduate student in Dr. Jiro Nagatomi’s lab, commented on their impressions of Mr. […]

Becky DeLegge, Founder and CEO of DeLegge Medical, is a current member and past president of the department’s External Advisory Board. She gives the impression of having a vast store of energy. How fortunate that she enjoys spending some of it on the department and its students! Editor 1. What do you enjoy most about […]

The primary motivation for my study in bioengineering is to improve human lives using my skills as an engineer. For research—I focus on question “why” until a scientific understanding is developed, and the rest follows. SFB is an excellent platform to demonstrate my work in the field of biomaterials, connect with leaders in field and […]

My co-op experience has been one of the best I have had since becoming a Tiger. Many of my friends in engineering enter the co-op program, and they encouraged me to do it as well. Academically, I am very comfortable in a classroom setting, but I had no idea what a graduate or an industry […]

  Asked to describe a new degree program at the Medical University of South Carolina, Professor and Hansjörg Wyss Endowed Chair for Regenerative Medicine Jeremy Gilbert started with the basics. “The Clemson Bioengineering Master of Engineering program (BIOE M.Eng) in Charleston is located on the MUSC campus as part of the Clemson-MUSC Program. This program […]

At the invitation of Peking University (PKU), spouses Dr. Jeoung Soo Lee and Dr. Ken Webb will be teaching this summer in the PKU Globex Julmester in Beijing. Globex offers courses that focus on two core elements: engineering and science and China-focused study. The Globex Julmester website provides this perspective, “Engineering and science generate new […]