Overview >> Collaboration
The research projects carried out by the members in UCSD bioengineering are described in the following pages under individual members. There are close collaborations between the bioengineering faculty and other scientists at UCSD and elsewhere. These are fostered by an Organized Research Unit established in 1991 - The Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
The instructional and research programs in the Department of Bioengineering are characterized by interdisciplinary relationships with the Departments on the general campus (e.g., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Structural Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology), and in the School of Medicine (e.g., Neurosciences, Pathology, Pharmacology, Medicine, Surgery, Orthopedics, and Ophthalmology), as well as associated campus institutes such as the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, Center for Molecular Genetics, Center for Molecular Medicine, Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Center for Energy and Combustion Research, Institute for Nonlinear Science, Institute for Mechanics and Materials, and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.