October 12, 2009 - Our new Berkeley Bioengineering Department Chair, Matthew Tirrell, is featured in this month's Innovations email newsletter from the College of Engineering. Tirrell talks about his excitement at joining Berkeley and plans for the department. Read more at Innovations.
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October 5, 2009 - Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy was featured in the People and Ideas column of the October 5 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
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October 5, 2009 - Bioengineering Graduate Group Affliliate Michel Maharbiz and BioE grad student Daniel Cohen have pioneered a new technique to control gene expression in two dimensions over time, using a modified inkjet printer.
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September 30, 2009 - Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy and collaborators have identified a critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to restore the muscle's ability to repair and rebuild itself, offering hope for future injury repair and anti-aging techniques.
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September 28, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in a New Yorker article, A Life Of It's Own, this September. The article explored the origins and potential future of the field of syntheic biology. Read more at the New Yorker.
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September 16, 2009 - The Siebel Foundation yesterday announced five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Seibel Scholars.
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September 2009 - UC Irvine professor, and BioE Ph.D. alumna, Michelle Khine was featured as a 2009 Young Innovator in the Tech Review 35.
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August 2009 - The Department of Bioengineering would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. John Dueber.
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July 22, 2009 - In a major publication in the latest issue of PLoS ONE, Berkeley Bioengineering researchers unveiled their revolutionary cell phone platform for remote fluorescent microscopy.
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July 13, 2009 - Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr is the recipient of a 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Herr was recognized for her proposal on "An Integrated Micro/Nanosystem for Rapid Validation of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Biomarkers".
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July 9, 2009 - Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers by President Obama.
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May 20, 2009 - Jay Keasling, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Acting Deputy Directory of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the first Biotech Humanitarian Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
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April 21, 2009 - Research by UCSF Professor and Bioengineering Graduate Group member Chris Voigt was featured on Reuters this week for advances toward more environmentally friendly gasoline.
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June 24, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Rick Henrickson has taken 3rd prize in the Center for Integrations of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Prize for Primary Healthcare.
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June 8, 2009 - Assistant Professor of Bioenginering Amy Herr has been granted a 2009 awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund. Created by a generous gift from distinguished alumnus F. Warren Hellman, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund awards research grants to junior faculty who have shown a promise of great distinction.
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June 2009 -Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded prestigious fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other prestigious external fellowships.
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May 22, 2009 - Thomas Budinger, Professor and Founding Chair of UC Berkeley Bioengineering, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
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May 1, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Kelly Karns won first prize with her team in the 11th annual Berkeley Business Plan competition, held at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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May 2009 - Bioengineering graduate students Lily Peng, Kayte Fischer and Adam Mendelsohn were featured in the College of Engineering Innovations magazine for their work on a a tiny implantable device capable of delivering steady and minute quantities of medication into the bloodstream.
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April 2009Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across campus are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates.
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April 20, 2009 - Matthew Tirrell, incoming Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and current Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tirrell is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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April 16, 2009 - Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee will receive the 2009 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society  Award for Excellence in Biomedical Technology in Memoriam of William J. Morlock.
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April 17, 2009 - Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher and his CellScope team were winners of a Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project prize this year, competing against over 100 other teams nationwide.
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April 12, 2009 - Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has received a scholar award from the Siebel Stem Cell Institute, a joint venture between UC Berkeley and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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April 7, 2009 - In yet another high profile win, the CellScope project has won one of four prizes in the international Intel Inspire-Empower Competition.
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April, 6 2009 Bioengineering Professor Tejal Desai’s nanotechnology breakthrough at UCSF Mission Bay was featured on ABC 7 news. Her team made the news for creating a nano-porous bio-capsule that is revolutionizing diabetes research!
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April 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor David Schaffer talks about stems cell research and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
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March 31, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been appointed Acting Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Adjunct Bioengineering Professor Paul Adams has been appointed Acting Director of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division.
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March 18, 2009 - Jay Keasling, Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Agents of Change.Jay made the list of 40 "people reinventing America" for his advances in synthetic biology, engineering microbes to produce cheap malaria drugs and working to synthesize biofuels. Also on the list were other visionaries like Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bill Gates, and President Barack Obama. Read the full list at Rolling Stone. Way to...
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March 16, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling is becoming a fixture on YouTube! In addition to his appearance last week on The Colbert Report, he can also be found on YouTube discussing antimalarial drug research in a video produced by California Connected, an award-winning PBS news magazine.
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