Biomaterials / Drug Delivery
Sarah Heilshorn, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Stem-Cell Protective Biomaterials to Improve Transplantation Viability
Andrea Kasko, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UCLA
Controlled release of therapeutics and cells from hydrogel depots using light
Biomechanics / Mechanobiology
Adam Engler, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
More than a ‘feeling’: how cell mechanotransduction regulates stem cell lineage
Robert O. Ritchie, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
Biological Degradation of the Hierarchical Structure and Fracture Properties of Human Bone with Aging and Disease
BioMEMS / Instrumentation
Abe Lee, Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, UC Irvine
Large-Scale Droplet Microfluidics: from Digital Biology to Targeted Therapy
Alex Revzin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Miniature Biosensors for Local Analysis of Cell Function
Imaging
Kathy Ferrara, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Image-guided nanodelivery
Shreyas Vasanawala, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford University Medical School
Healing the Heart with Injectable Biomaterials
Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
Karen Christman, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Healing the Heart with Injectable Biomaterials
Zev Gartner, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Emergent behaviors in 3D epithelial tissues prepared by programmed assembly
Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics
Patsy Babbitt, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
How nature engineers enzymes for new functions
Jeff Hasty, Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Engineered Gene Circuits: From Oscillators to Synchronized Clocks and Biopixels