Engineering Research

LSU Engineering researchers are partnering with Our Lady of the Lake Health to tackle some of Louisiana’s most pressing health challenges through cutting-edge projects in artificial intelligence, digital health, biomedical engineering, and precision medicine.

LSU Engineering faculty have secured major funding from the National Institutes of Health to advance transformative research in cancer biology, medical imaging and mental health technology, highlighting the university's growing national research impact across engineering, biomedical science and digital health. The newly funded projects, totaling more than $5.5 million in NIH support, span disciplines ranging from cancer therapeutics and MRI imaging to virtual reality-based behavioral interventions for ADHD.

A team of five LSU Biological Engineering seniors is developing a cutting-edge microfluidic device designed to improve how researchers study breast cancer cells and test potential treatments. The research combines engineering, biology, and medical research into what is called an Impedance Monitor Microphysiological Platform, or IM Chip, for triple-negative breast cancer.