Facilities

Biomedical engineering students have access to the resources and facilities of four colleges and Ohio University’s Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI). Using state-of-the-art molecular and cellular biology to develop new diagnostics and therapeutics for human disease, EBI is located in the Konneker Research Center, a 40,000-square-foot facility also housing cellular and biomolecular engineering laboratories.

Over the past five years, the life science facilities at Ohio University have greatly expanded with the opening of the 73,000-square-foot Life Sciences Building and the 30,714-square-foot Biochemistry Research Facility. Ohio University is currently developing a new, 100,000-square-foot Integrated Learning and Research Facility. This complex will connect Stocker Center, which houses the Russ College of Engineering and Technology, including biomechanics and biomedical information processing laboratories, and Irvine Hall, which houses research faculty from the College of Osteopathic Medicine. The new facility is tentatively set to open in winter 2009 and will be a center for biomedical and engineering research and education.

The 36,000-square-foot Innovation Center, the first university-based business incubator in Ohio, facilitates the transfer of fundamental discovery into marketable products. Diagnostic Hybrids Inc., which began as a research project at Ohio University, moved into the Innovation Center and is now expanding into its own local facility.

Ohio University has extensive shared research equipment available to BME students.