About the Center for Biodevices

Founded in 2020, the Penn State Center for Biodevices (CfB) was created to unite Penn State’s strengths in engineering, science, and medicine to accelerate innovation in device-based solutions that improve human health, agricultural resiliency and environmental sustainability. Since its inception, CfB has been instrumental in building a vibrant biodevices community across the Penn State Commonwealth campuses, advancing undergraduate and graduate training, and catalyzing interdisciplinary research through competitive seed awards.

The CfB accelerates the impact and translation of biodevices through four thematic priorities:​

Center activities translate idea-to-impact in both fundamental device research and technology commercialization:

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