►Innovation for Clinical Translation Fellowship graduate Program named to honor alumna Leslie Bottorff

►$2.9M NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse grant awarded to combat opioid crisis

►Purdue College of Engineering and Indiana University School of Medicine announce major Engineering—Medicine Partnership

►Marta Gross and Dick Barnes endow named professorships for junior faculty members

►Biomedical Engineering cumulative licensing revenues exceed $30M

►Construction begins for $18M Innovation Wing for Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering

►Professional master’s degree program in biomedical engineering initiated

►MS BME/MBA dual degree program with Purdue's Krannert School of Management established

►MD/MS BME dual degree program with Indiana University School of Medicine launched

►Regulatory Science Certificate Program for Medical Devices created

►NIH T32 Interdisciplinary Training grant in Auditory Neuroscience awarded

►Center for Healthcare Engineering granted $10M by Regenstrief Foundation

►For the second year in a row, a Purdue Biomedical Engineering student team wins the Engineering World Health Design Competition

►Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Senior Class Scholarship endowed

►Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded

►This year and next, Biomedical Engineering students dominate at BMES, winning Outstanding Chapter Industry Award, Outstanding Chapter Activity Award, Outstanding Chapter Officer Award, and Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award

►Family of orthopedics pioneer endows headship;George Wodicka appointed inaugural Dane A. Miller Head of Biomedical Engineering

►$10M NIH SPARC grant in electroceuticals awarded

►30th Biomedical Engineering faculty member hired

►Senior design team wins NIH NIBIB first prize in DEBUT challenge

►3 Biomedical Engineering faculty members inducted into National Academy of Inventors

►Six Biomedical Engineering faculty members promoted to full professor

►10th faculty member named Purdue University Faculty Scholar

►$5.4M DARPA grant in implantable neurostimulators awarded

►Federal and foundational research funding doubles over past year

►10th Biomedical Engineering faculty member receives NSF CAREER Award

►FDA Food Safety Challenge Grand Prize awarded

►1st of three Biomedical Engineering preeminent faculty teams selected for support by Purdue College of Engineering

►NIH T32 interdisciplinary training grant for diabetes research awarded

►Study abroad programs with ETH in Switzerland and DTI Denmark launched

►15th Biomedical Engineering faculty member elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

►Institute for Accessible Science becomes newest biomedical research center in Discovery Park

►Active U.S. patents exceed 100, with 50 active corporate licenses

►Biomedical Engineering cumulative licensing revenues exceed $20 million

►12th start-up company based upon biomedical engineering discovery launched

►Center for Implantable Devices formed

►Purdue chapter of Alpha Eta Mu Beta, the Biomedical Engineering Honor Society, created

►Internship program at National University of Ireland-Galway initiated

►Online Professional Master’s degree program launched

►20th Biomedical Engineering faculty member hired

►Undergraduate biomedical engineering program receives ABET accreditation

►National Science Foundation funds scholarship program in quantitative physiology

►National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) grant with Indiana University School of Medicine awarded

►MD/PhD Program receives National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) funding

►The new building is formally renamed the Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering

►The new home of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is dedicated

►Cook Group, Inc. endows Leslie A. Geddes Professorship

►The Biomedical Entrepreneurship graduate certificate program is started in collaboration with the Krannert School of Management through the generous support of the Guidant Foundation and the C.R. Bard Foundation

►The Havel and Decker Families endow the first undergraduate scholarship at the School

►Biomedical Science graduate program with Veterinary Medicine launched

►Biomedical Engineering undergraduate industrial internship program created

►Whitaker Foundation funding for building granted
Ronald W. Dollens Graduate Scholarship established by the Guidant Foundation for graduate students in biomedical engineering and pharmacy

►Groundbreaking takes places on a new biomedical engineering building

►The Department of Biomedical Engineering is formed;
George Wodicka named head of the new department

►Whitaker Foundation Special Award received

►Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program approved by the Purdue Board Trustees and sanctioned by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education

►Alumni David and Stephen Grubbs fund an annual research stipend for students

►First biomedical engineering course (EE522) was developed and taught

►Norman Weldon awards first grant received by the Center, $25,000, to create the best automatic implanted cardioverter defibrillator

►Charles Babbs, Joe Bourland, Leslie Geddes, and Willis Tacker create the Biomedical Engineering Center

►Leslie Geddes named Director of the Biomedical Engineering Center and the Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

►Offices and laboratories were in the basement of the Electrical Engineering Building

►William Hillenbrand anonymously donates $500,000 to establish biomedical engineering research at Purdue

►Grace Showalter endows the Showalter Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering