Translational Biomedical Engineering

Harvard HMS

Summary: Innovations in biomedical engineering are having a significant impact on healthcare. Advances in genomics technologies are transforming diagnostics/therapeutics, including personalized medicine. Prosthetic technologies are giving patients who have lost a limb the opportunity to lead near-normal lives. Robots, swallowed or injected, are changing surgery and diagnostics. Nanomaterials are being used as therapeutics and for new imaging modalities. The course is designed to provide…