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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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News

New director expands Center for Biodevices scope for higher impact

Scott Medina, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named the director for the Center for Biodevices within the Huck Institutes for Life Sciences.

Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics

Penn State researcher focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely.

Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices

To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits needed for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles.

News

New director expands Center for Biodevices scope for higher impact

Scott Medina, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named the director for the Center for Biodevices within the Huck Institutes for Life Sciences.

Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics

Penn State researcher focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely.

Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices

To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits needed for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles.

‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology

Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, stronger and more flexible than graphene, the 2D version of carbon. Now, researchers at Penn State have made the material potentially more useful by imparting chirality — or handedness — on it, which could make for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices.

Events

Thursday Mar

19

Biomedical Innovation Exchange 2026
A combined event featuring the Center for Biodevices Symposium and Biomedical Engineering Research Forum

Events

Thursday Mar

19


Biomedical Innovation Exchange 2026
A combined event featuring the Center for Biodevices Symposium and Biomedical Engineering Research Forum