California Institute of Technology
Biological Engineering
Pasadena, USA
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Key Summary
About: Caltech’s Biological Engineering research applies engineering principles to design, analyze, construct, and manipulate biological systems. It leads work in molecular programming, synthetic biology, engineering immunity, synthetic development, quantitative spatial biology, and neuroengineering. The Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center funds fellows and cross-disciplinary projects, supporting discovery of new engineering principles inspired by biology. Keywords: bioengineering, biological systems, molecular programming, synthetic development.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in biotech industry, synthetic biology R&D, biomedical devices, computational biology, neuroengineering, academic research, or startups. Roles include research scientist, systems engineer, product developer, with employers such as biotech firms, medical-device companies, universities.
Biological Engineering research at Caltech focuses on the application of engineering principles to the design, analysis, construction, and manipulation of biological systems, and on the discovery and application of new engineering principles inspired by the properties of biological systems. Caltech has played and continues to play a leading role in establishing new areas of inquiry including molecular programming, synthetic biology, engineering immunity, synthetic development, quantitative spatial biology, and neuroengineering. The Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center supports bioengineering research through the funding of fellows and research projects across many disciplines.
