Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee and collaborators are one of only eleven top university teams nationwide to receive a Phase Two Tissue Chip Award from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
Archives for September 2014
Berkeley BioE ranked #9 program in U.S.
Not only is Berkeley the #1 public university in the nation, Berkeley Bioengineering has been ranked the #9 bioengineering undergraduate program in the US, by U.S. News & World Report. This is one step higher than last year’s ranking – #1, here we come!
New book from Sanjay Kumar
BioE professor Sanjay Kumar has edited a new book with Professor Adam Engler, of UC San Diego. Titled Mechanotransduction, the book is Volume 126 in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series.
Biochip research in the Daily Cal
Pioneering research by Professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee, aimed at recreating human heart and liver tissues on “biochips”, was featured in the Daily Cal.
BioE receives computational biology curriculum enrichment grant
UC Berkeley has awarded a 2014-2015 Presidential Chair Fellows Curriculum Enrichment Grant to the Department of Bioengineering for revision of the undergraduate computational biology concentration.