What is the aim of most of the students in the biomedical field?
We are really biological engineering not biomedical engineering. See the departmental website for a description of Biological Engineering. Our program doesn’t have much in the way of artificial limbs and other medical devices on that scale. We are more focused on the molecular/cellular/tissue scales. A lot of the stuff may have medical applications but a bit more long-term. Much of the current research work will be going into patients on a 10-20 year timescale rather than within a year, though there are definitely exceptions to this (see Bob Langer and Linda Griffith for some work that is being used in patients now). An arguably more medically relevant program is the Harvard-MIT program in Health Sciences and Technology.
