Sink or Swim

Our Biomedical Engineering students from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering have been perfecting their design projects all year. Check out what we've been working on.



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PartiClear

PartiClear

Team 1: PartiClear

Clarity You Can Count On.

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BITEbio

BITEBio

Team 2: BITEbio

ZotThe Next Generation in Optimizing and Monitoring Athletic Performance.

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VascXpand

VascXpand

Team 3: VascXpand

Expanding into the future of healthcare.

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EMBRACE

EMBRACE

Team 4: EMBRACE

Move as You Mean It.



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InfraMed

InfraMed

Team 5: InfraMed

InfraMed is partnering with NTX Therapeutics to develop near-infrared (NIR) light–emitting catheters for stroke therapy, designed to preserve ischemic brain tissue and improve patient outcomes.

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HemaWeave

HemaWeave

Team 6: HemaWeave

Weave got you covered.

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AdiFlo

AdiFlo

Team 8: AdiFlo

Furthering stem cell therapeutics through the development of devices that micronize and emulsify adipose tissue.

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PlethyPals

Plethy Pals

Team 9: Plethy Pals

If your oxygen reading is off, so are your healthcare decisions. We help you check.

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MicroJAMBRs

MicroJAMBRs

Team 10: MicroJAMBRs

Injection molding company for Microfluidics.

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Earicular

Earicular

Team 11: Earicular

A tissue-engineered reconstruction project to restore natural ear shape for patients with congenital deformities.

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SutureSense

SutureSense

Team 12: SutureSense

Redefining surgical precision with a handheld device that measures suture tension to prevent ventral hernia recurrence.

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CHROMAskin

CHROMAskin

Team 13: CHROMAskin

CHROMAskin empowers physicians with fast, non-invasive skin cancer diagnostics built on multispectral imaging technology. Our mission is to make accurate, comfortable care accessible to all patients. We are a team of five biomedical engineering students at UC Irvine, driven by a shared passion for advancing equitable healthcare through innovative, patient-centered solutions.

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DermaSpect

DermaSpect

Team 14: DermaSpect

Advancing support for abuse victims through DermaSpect, a portable multispectral imaging device that provides quantitative and equitable bruise age assessment.

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DiagNose

DiagNose

Team 15: DiagNose

Making speech assessment accessible through a portable, child-friendly nasometer.

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ClearViewGlobal

ClearView Global

Team 16: ClearView Global

ClearView Global develops simple, low-cost solutions to improve surgical visibility. Our current project focuses on a hands-free anti-fog system for ophthalmic microscopes, helping surgeons maintain clear vision and deliver safer, more efficient care.

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NeoviMedical

Neovi Medical

Team 17: Neovi Medical

A novel syringe pump designed to enable accurate and precise infusions anywhere.

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PROMPTly

PROMPTly

Team 18: PROMPTly

Helping expecting mothers to alleviate leakage uncertainty: Clinical Certainty, Delivered at Home.

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Natavue

Natavue

Team 19: Natavue

Empowering physicians with real-time data for safer deliveries.

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RapInject

RapInject

Team 20: RapInject

Empowering safer allergy response through simple epinephrine delivery.

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EchoTube

EchoTube

Team 21: EchoTube

ZotTransforming blind nasogastric tube placement into an ultrasound-guided procedure to enhance neonatal safety and care.

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ReForm

ReForm

Team 22: ReForm

A wearable haptic band that shifts attention externally during motion, helping athletes retrain complex movements and break ingrained muscle memory.

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ANGel

ANGel

Team 23: ANGel

ANGel is an immune-activating hydrogel wound dressing that accelerates healing by promoting rapid blood vessel regrowth.

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Upcoming Events









Bioengine Biomedical Device Design Symposium

We will be celebrating the culmination of the Biomedical Device Design capstone course at UC Irvine. Join us over food and drinks as the senior design teams showcase their prototypes and compete for a chance to win BioENGINE Fellowships and Capstone Design Awards.

*Note: BioENGINE Fellowship candidates are also eligible for Capstone Design Awards



Date: June 1st, 2026, 4-7pm

Location

UCI Applied Innovation (The Cove)

5141 California Ave, Suite 200

Please direct event questions to:

The Bioengine Team







Past Events



Bioengine Industry Networking Night

We will be hosting our winter industry networking night. This will be a networking event that will consist of 2 minute reverse pitches from companies and networking booths to be able to meet and recruit our students after graduation.

Date: February 12th, 2026

Location: UCI Division of Continuing Education

Address: 510 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA 92697

Bioengine Fall Reverse Pitch Night

We will be hosting our kick-off event, our project matching reverse pitch night. This will be a team and project matching event where all students will match to their project of interest.

Date: October 9th, 2025

Location: Virtual

Via Zoom by Invitation Only




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We need your support!

We are seeking old medical equipment to assist our students with design and innovation.



Please direct mentorship and equipment donation questions to:

Dr. Christine King







About the instructors

Dr. Jered Haun

Dr. Jered Haun is an Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He also has a joint appointment in the department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and is a member of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He grew up in the land of 10,000 lakes and frozen winters, later receiving his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2000. Then he setoff to Charm City for an M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2003, and the City of Brotherly Love for a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He concluded his training in Beantown under the direction of Dr. Ralph Weissleder at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. The Haun Laboratory for Nanoengineering and Molecular Medicine Laboratory was founded in 2011 in sunny Southern California. Professor Haun is a Hellman Fellow and has received an American Cancer Society IRG Award.

Dr. Christine King

Dr. Christine King is an Associate Teaching Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. She received her BS and MS from Manhattan College in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, where she developed brain-computer interface systems for neurorehabilitation. She was a post-doctorate in the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research manager in the Center for SMART Health, where she focused on wireless health monitoring for stroke and pediatric asthma. Her current research is on engineering education.







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