Health and Well-being

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RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS

Health and Well-being

We’re solving for medical advances that once seemed impossible. Rice engineers are developing faster, more accessible healthcare innovations. We've been at the cutting edge of biomedical engineering since 1963 when we helped design the first artificial heart. Today, our engineers harness that same pioneering spirit to discover life-saving solutions for the most challenging medical and public health issues.

Partnerships with industry leaders and the Texas Medical Center are at the heart of health and well-being research at Rice Engineering. In the BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice Neuroengineering Initiative, Digital Health Initiative, and the Biotech Launch Pad, Rice researchers develop new technologies to prevent, diagnose, and accelerate next-generation treatments for cancer, neurological diseases, viruses, and other illnesses.

Real World Impact

\ Rice and MD Anderson researchers collaborate to improve a novel treatment for liver cancer

\ Rice students develop low-cost vibrotactile glove to help treat Parkinson's disease

\ Cancer-fighting implant shows promise in treating melanoma, pancreatic and colorectal tumors

\ Rice bioengineers develop lotus leaf-inspired system to advance study of cancer cell clusters

\ Rice neuroscientists to build state-of-the-art neural recording system

\ Rice lab develops smallest free-floating bubbles for medical imaging