The Department has set up the Bioengineering and Nanobioengineering Corridor to facilitate research, using a multidisciplinary joint-laboratory approach in a single location. The cutting-edge laboratories include those on Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biophysics, Bionanotechnology, Biosignal Processing & Instrumentation, Chemotherapeutic Engineering, Computational Bioengineering, Nanobioengineering, Nano Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, and Biofluids.

Together with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Division also jointly owns the Centre for Biomaterials Applications & Technology (BIOMAT). The Centre aims to generate new ideas and to challenge old mindsets to solve bioengineering problems and reduce heathcare costs.

The Nanotechnology Corridor has also seen the setting up of the Silicon Nano Devices Lab, Information Storage Materials Lab, Centre for Optoelectronics, Nano Wafer Level Packaging Lab, Nanobioengineering Lab, Nano Biomechanics Lab, and Microelectromechanical Systems/ Microsystems Technology Initiative (MEMS/MSTI) Lab.

Several of the Faculty are also Principal Investigators in the laboratories of the “NUS Tissue Engineering Programme (NUSTEP)”.

Locally, the Division collaborates with the National University Hospital, DSO National Laboratories, and with the different Life Sciences Institutes at Biopolis.

International collaborators comprise Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan in the US, University of Toronto in Canada, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Israel, University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Tongji University in China and in Europe the University of Cologne, University of Freiburg in Germany, Cardiff University in the UK. The collaboration covers areas as wide as Bone Tissue Engineering, Nano Composites, Cell-Substrate Interactions, Biocomposites, Polymer Nanofibres and antifibrotic drug discovery.