Associate Teaching Professor Terry Johnson has been identified as one of the 10 Best Professors at UC Berkeley by College Magazine.
Carey wins 2018 Diagnostic World Early Innovator Award
PhD student Thomas Carey was selected as the winner of the Diagnostics World Early Innovator Awards program at the 2018 Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco. Carey and his colleagues are developing a low-cost microfluidic-based platform to detect the presence of biomarkers present in virtually every fluid.
Capstone Profile: Designing resiliency for the pandemic flu
Master of Engineering students Jasodhara Raj (BIOE), Suyasha Gupta (BIOE), and Arnaud Bard de Coutance (ME) aim to develop software to automate and standardize the reporting procedures for influenza cases. This would mean that hospitals and physicians do not have to report data themselves, which would save a significant amount of time and increase physicians’ incentives to run the tests leading to improvement in tracking.
Bolt Threads co-founder wants you to wear recyclable silk clothes made from artificial proteins
Check out BioE PhD alum David Breslauer on the San Jose Mercury News Sunday Business front page.
Amy Herr receives 2018 SCIEX Microscale Separations, Innovations Medal and Award
Professor Herr receives this honor for Current and Breakthrough Research in the Field of Electro-Driven Separations. “Dr. Herr’s use of IEF on samples from single cells to discriminate between protein isoforms differing by a single charge has inspired many scientists, both utilizing and building upon using relatively simple designs that give powerful performance.”
Three BioE teams are 2018 Jacobs Institute Innovation Catalysts
BioE undergrads Jovanny Guillen, Tatiana Jansen, and Irene Kim of the “Surgical Instrument Reprocessing in Low-Resource Settings” project were awarded an Ignite grant to help push their project to the next stage. Ashna Jasuja, Yasmine Kehnemouyi, and Abhinav Koppu of the “Bubbles: Combining Microbubbles and Ultrasound for Breast and Prostate Cancer Detection” team and Naser Abdelrahman of the “The Electromobilizing Sleeve” project will receive Spark grants for early-stage projects or experimental concepts.
What good is CRISPR if it can’t get where it needs to go?
BioE startup GenEdit is featured in Wired as the first company devoted solely to Crispr delivery.
MTM team wins Jacobs Institute Innovation Catalyst grant
The Master of Translational Medicine team of Daniel Beckerman and Woojoo Kim has receive an Ignite grant to push their project, “3D Printing Anatomical Models for Orthopedic Surgery”, to the next level of development.
Dueber lab moves closer to clean, green indigo dyes
Professor John Dueber’s lab has advanced two steps closer to cleaning up the dirty production of indigo dyes. Using synthetic biology they have done away with the wasteful chemical synthesis of indigo, and removed the damaging bleaching stage that converts indigo to leucoindigo.