New for UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2025 – Materials Design for Biomedicine (APPL 467 – 3 Credits), a course lead by Professor Ronit Freeman that will equip you in learning how to engineer biomaterials and nanotechnologies!

Biomaterials are materials that are used to interact with biological systems, such as a pacemaker or dissolving stitches. The advancements we are making in designing materials for biomedicine are becoming increasingly complex, but have opened the door for creative, intelligent scientists like yourself, to develop materials that can adapt to biological environments, self-assemble, interact naturally, and be removed naturally when they have completed their function.

This course will include hands-on scientific testing, development of key points and vocabulary to communicate your findings to both scientists and non-scientists, and team collaborations.

Course topics will include: Biological Materials, Chemical Building Blocks, Biological Polymers and Composites, Biological Elastomers, Functional Properties of Bio Materials, Mechanical Testing, Biomaterials Applications.

Head on over to register today before seats are gone!