Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices

This morning, Director William Bentley presented the morning keynote at the UMD MATRIX Lab Industry open house. Dr. Bentley discussed his role as Mtech, University of Maryland director and his career journey through academia and industry.

Happy Independence Day from the Fischell Institute 🎆

The final application deadline for MAGE on-campus domestic and all online applicants (both domestic & international) is July 31. Advance your technical expertise with an Master of Engineering or Graduate Certificate in Engineering. Head to mage.umd.edu/application-pr… for more!

Thrilled to announce that I’m officially an Associate Professor with tenure starting today! So thankful to my amazing students, mentors, collaborators, family, friends, and community for their support over the years! @UMDBIOE

Congratulations to several Fischell Institute Fellows, Affiliate Fellows, and Fischell Fellows who received funding through the University of Maryland's Grand Challenges Grants Program!

Congratulations to our Communications and Program Specialist Ambi Narula for being awarded the LGBTQ+ Equity Center's Pride and Advocacy Award 🏳️‍🌈 fischellinstitute.umd.edu/news/story/amb…

Meet Xin Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in Fischell Institute Fellow Ryan Sochol’s Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Lab. fischellinstitute.umd.edu/news/story/fis…

Congratulations to our Assistant Director Martha Wang on being one of the receipts of the 2026 Professional Track Faculty Excellence Award by the Office of Faculty Affairs UMD Well deserved, Dr. Wang 👏

This $3.5 million grant from @NIH will greatly support @ClarkSchool's Christopher Jewell and his biomedical team in combating autoimmune diseases. today.umd.edu/3-5m-nih-grant…

Congratulations to all of our faculty, students, and researchers recognized at @UofMaryland's 2026 Invention of the Year awards! Top honors went to Christopher M. Jewell's team for ASTI, a new therapy to retrain immune system response. @FischellInstUMD eng.umd.edu/news/story/202…

What if the body’s immune system could be rewired not to attack itself—the same way a smoke alarm can be recalibrated to stop going off when there’s no fire? A team of University of Maryland researchers has developed a therapy to do exactly that, and on Tuesday it claimed the Life Sciences and Overall Winner categories in the university’s annual Invention of the Year competition. Called Antigen-Specific Immune Tolerance (ASIT), the technology creates microparticle “depots” injected directly into the lymph nodes—the body’s immune command centers—to correct how cells decide what to attack and what to leave alone. A single dose produces strong, long-lasting effects, and early results suggest it may even be able to repair tissue that has already been damaged by disease. Congratulations to Christopher M. Jewell and his lab! today.umd.edu/body-defense-b…

This Thursday, attend the BioPark’s reboot of Science in the City! This no-pressure happy hour offers the perfect opportunity to connect and mingle with innovators and resource leaders in the Baltimore region. luma.com/ibwd48ih

Fischell Institute Community Members Adira Colton (Ryan Sochol's BAM Lab) and Michael Bonthron (Eleonora Tubaldi's Lab) are this year's winners of UMD's 3 Minute Thesis Competition! Congrats Adira and Michael!

Fischell Institute Community member Alyssa Petersen, a member of Affiliate Fellow @HZierden's lab, was awarded 1st Place at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Showcase. Congrats Alyssa!

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Fischell Fellow Jin-Oh Hahn into its College of Fellows. Congrats Dr. Hahn! fischellinstitute.umd.edu/news/story/hah…

This afternoon, MPower Fellow and WIE UMD Graduate Assistant Chelsea Neumann led a lab tour of the Fischell Institute for a group of 10 middle school students from Anne Arundel County Public Schools as part of WIE's Get Outside and Learn (GOAL) Engineering Kit Program.

The Fischell Institute invested $150K in three research projects through our 2026 Professional Track Faculty Innovator Program to support multidisciplinary teams advancing early stage medical device technologies. fischellinstitute.umd.edu/news/story/fis…

The Fischell Institute will host its final lab tour of the academic year on Monday, April 6 at 10 a.m. RSVP here: go.umd.edu/labtour

Today at 12:30, please join us in the Colony Ballroom in STAMP for our inaugural Break into MedTech: Careers, Conversations, and Connections event! luma.com/ffw9nvz3

So proud of my second PhD student Gatha who successfully defended her dissertation today! @UMDBIOE #MuellerLabForever