Worcester Polytechnic Institute

American private technological university in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1865 and one of the oldest engineering and science universities in the country, known for its project based curriculum. Teaches biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry and biochemistry, biology and biotechnology and bioinformatics, and carries out research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, biomanufacturing through the Massachusetts biomanufacturing centre, medical devices and point of care diagnostics and drug delivery, working with industry and hospitals from its own laboratories and its life sciences and bioengineering centre at Gateway Park.