Facilities

Biomedical engineering students have access to the resources and facilities of four colleges, the new Academic & Research Center (ARC), and the Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI).

Six biomedical engineering program faculty members have laboratories in the $34.5 million ARC, which opened in January 2010. The 100,000-square-foot ARC connects 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 ARC's location and design fosters collaboration between researchers in engineering and medicine and makes it a center for biomedical research.

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.

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.