May 2005 Local biotech company Plexxikon hosted eleven Berkeley students on May 5 for a full tour, lecture on drug development, and visits with company executives. The students are all participants in the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program or the QB3 Undergraduate Research Biotech Internship Program.
Archives for 2005
Conboy named New Scholar in Aging
May 2005 Bioengineering professor Irina Conboy has just been selected as a Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging.
Fletcher receives Hellman award
May 2005 Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received an award from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund in support of his research, “Some assembly required: Rebuilding the actin motility machinery”.
Commencement Photos!
Check out our gallery of photos fromCommencement 2005.
Lee wins National Academies Grant
April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee was awarded a $75,000 research grant from National Academies Keck Futures Initiative today, for his research topic “Quantum Nanoplasmonic Probes for In Vivo Molecular Imaging”.
BioE poster gets 2nd Place
April 2005 Marcio von Muhlen’s poster, A Piezoelectric Microjet for Drug Delivery won second place in the Spring 2005 Undergraduate Science and Engineering Poster Session today.
Boris Rubinsky and Frozen Frogs
April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Dr. Boris Rubinsky contributed research and background on cryogenics for the April 19 episode of the NOVA Science NOW tv show.
Keasling heads Physical Biosciences
April 2005 Bioengineering professor Jay Keasling has been appointed the new Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
Shankar Sastry named CITRIS director
April 5, 2005 – S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).