Chair's Message

I welcome you to the Harrington Department of Bioengineering at ASU, established in 2002 and aspiring to be one of the most respected bioengineering programs in the world.

We focus on two emerging thrust areas, Neural Engineering and Molecular, Tissue and Cell Engineering, and plan to jointly build a third, Biomedical Imaging and Bioinformatics, with the internationally renowned Biodesign Institute, the Biomedical Informatics department at ASU, and our clinical partners. Our plans also include significantly increasing efforts to hire women and underrepresented minority faculty and working with our clinical partners to build a joint PhD/MD Program to recruit the best and brightest students.

The ASU environment is a unique and fertile ground for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and education. Our faculty collaborates with the faculty from the Biodesign Institute, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Barrow Neurological Institute and Biomedical Informatics.

Our primary goal is to develop leadership in academia, government, and industry nationally and globally. The importance of global scientific, social, and cultural interaction and the demands of the dynamic, ever-changing global healthcare economy have been strongly emphasized in our undergraduate and graduate programs.

If you are interested in being a part of the Harrington Department of Bioengineering as a faculty member, undergraduate or graduate student, I would love to hear from you.

Best,

Metin Akay, PhD
Interim Chair and Professor of Bioengineering
Harrington Department of Bioengineering
Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University