Congratulations to professors Amy Herr and Song Li, new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
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Seung-Wuk Lee Lab creates early warning system for toxins
Seung-Wuk Lee, UC Berkeley associate professor of bioengineering, led a research team to create color-changing biosensors, assembled from benign viruses, that can detect volatile chemicals.
MTM article in Science Translational Medicine
An article published in Science Translational Medicine outlines a new approach to interdisciplinary education and was written by leaders of the Master of Translational Medicine program.
Kumar and Murthy receive Keck Fund award
Bioengineering professors Sanjay Kumar and Niren Murthy have been granted a $500,000 research award from the W.M. Keck Foundation for their project, Single Tumor Cell Proteomics for Diagnosis and Prognosis.
Professor Stanley Berger has passed away
Stanley A. Berger, Montford G. Cook professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and bioengineering and a renowned expert in fluid mechanics, died on Nov. 25, 2013. He was 79, and died at his home in Berkeley of pneumonia.
Healy named AAAS Fellow
Kevin Healy, Chair of the Bioengineering Department and Professor of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Video of Lee Lab’s soft robots on InsideScience TV
Bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee’s breakthrough soft robotics were featured in a video on InsideScience TV. InsideScience interviewed Lee as well as BioE student Malav Desai and recent alum Eddie Wang.
Two students win AiChE poster awards
Bioengineering PhD students Augusto Tentori and Yuchen Pan took home outstanding poster awards at the Fall 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, a part of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Symposium. Both are members of Berkeley bioengineering professor Amy Herr’s lab.
Berkeley iGEM in Popular Science
The Berkeley iGEM team was featured in the Popular Science Biohackers blog for their synthetic production of indigo dye, presented this weekend at the iGEM World Championship Jamboree.