Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

Six people in lab looking toward camera.

The Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute (ODBI) is an interdisciplinary research center building a vibrant community of faculty, students, postdocs, staff and partners, with research focusing on cellular, device and computational bioengineering, all under one roof. ODBI is working to unlock fundamental discoveries in the life sciences and apply engineering principles to pressing human needs.

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Program Information

  • Director's Message

  • Undergraduate Summer Program

  • Ph.D. Program in Bioengineering

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

News

  • A group of killer T cells, colored green and red, surrounding a cancer cell, colored blue.

    Microscopes reveal a frozen moment in cellular time. This new method records cells as they work.

  • Single strand ribonucleic acid.

    Can language models read the genome? This one decoded mRNA to make better vaccines.

  • Dense rows of low crops growing in a field, with trees in the distance and a clear blue sky.

    Princeton IP Accelerator funding awarded to support promising new technologies

  • Portrait of researcher in lab near microscope.

    The materials scientist who upended cell biology

  • Daniel Cohen (right) and research team

    Raising bioelectric sheepdogs to herd flocks of cells

  • Three researchers in lab coats examine a sample while one points at the material

    Transforming microbes into factories for the future

Related Research

  • Bioengineering and Health

Faculty

  • Josh Atkinson outdoor photo. He is smiling

    Joshua Atkinson

    Civil and Environmental Engineering