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Center for Biodevices

Transforming human health, agriculture, and environmental sciences through collaborative research, technology, and industry partnerships

The Penn State Center for Biodevices (CfB) unites engineers, scientists, and healthcare providers to create innovative device-based solutions that promote better human health, sustainable agronomy, and environmental resilience. Through research innovation, industry partnerships, community events, and workforce development programs, CfB empowers researchers and students to translate discovery into impact.

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Chemical engineering professor honored for work on plant-based tissue scaffolds

Amir Sheikhi, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering and associate professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, recently received the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award from the journal BioResources. The award recognized a paper published by Sheikhi and his research team in 2026, titled “All-Cellulose Cryogels with Tunable Extracellular Matrix-MimeticArchitecture.”

Paintable electrodes could power creative and colorful wearable sensors

Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos that could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable system that can be easily washed away or reapplied.

Team led by Penn State researcher receives national biopharmaceutical award

A research team led by Andrew Zydney, Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, has received the inaugural Most Impactful Project Award from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL).

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Chemical engineering professor honored for work on plant-based tissue scaffolds

Amir Sheikhi, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering and associate professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, recently received the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award from the journal BioResources. The award recognized a paper published by Sheikhi and his research team in 2026, titled “All-Cellulose Cryogels with Tunable Extracellular Matrix-MimeticArchitecture.”

Paintable electrodes could power creative and colorful wearable sensors

Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos that could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable system that can be easily washed away or reapplied.

Team led by Penn State researcher receives national biopharmaceutical award

A research team led by Andrew Zydney, Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, has received the inaugural Most Impactful Project Award from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL).

Fourteen interdisciplinary research teams receive 2026 IEE seed grants

Fourteen interdisciplinary research teams have received funding through the Institute of Energy and the Environment’s (IEE) 2026 Seed Grant Program. The program supports basic and applied research that lays the groundwork to pursue external funding and is guided by IEE’s five strategic research themes. This year, the program awarded seed funding to more than 40 researchers across 10 colleges and campuses and 21 departments and units.