2013 – UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering

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.

Li Lab shows physical cues help mature cells revert into embryonic-like stem cells

October 21, 2013 Professor Song Li and his research team have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when inducing mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.

Alumni profile – Ehsan Saadat

This alumni profile of Ehsan Saadat appeared in the 2013 Bioengineering Department annual report. Ehsan (B.S. 2006) is a third year resident in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School.