The bioengineering senior capstone design team of Matt Chan, Karthik Prasad, and Sara Sampson took 2nd place in the Global Health category of the Berkeley Big Ideas competition.
Update: Two capstone teams win Honorable Mentions in Big Ideas!
Two Bioengineering senior capstone design teams have received Honorable Mentions in the Hardware for Good category of the annual Berkeley Big Ideas competition.
A successful 2017 Bioengineering High School Competition
The annual Bioengineering High School Competition, run by our Bioengineering Honor Society, featured a keynote speech by Professor Tejal Desai, BioE PhD alumna and Chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences. Read more about the competition at the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
MEng Capstone Project Highlight: Applied Rejuvenative Therapies
A team of BioE Master of Engineering students is working on aging and rejuvenation in the Conboy Lab.
Capstone team takes a bite out of Shark Tank
The capstone team of Darya Fadavi, Jeffrey Feng, and Noreen Wauford was one of only three teams to win Accelerator Awards in the UCSF Surgical Innovations Shark Tank event. They will receive $25,000 in seed funding plus engineering and development support to advance their project, “Quantitative Assessment of Degree & Spatial Extent of Pain Nerve Block.” They were the only winning team with student members, and co-presented with their UCSF mentors, Professors Matthew Haight and Merlin Larson.
M.Eng. Capstone Project Highlight: Prevention of Early Breastfeeding Cessation
Bioengineering Master of Engineering students are developing a revolutionary breast cream to help mothers continue breastfeeding their newborn children.
BioE startup mFluiDx publishes their detection chip in Science
mFluiDx, a startup founded by BioE PhD alum Charlie Yeh and currently in the CITRIS Foundry incubator, has published their development of a portable, self-powered, low-cost nucleic acid detection chip. This simple chip allows rapid quantitative digital nucleic acid detection directly from small human blood samples, an alternative to real-time PCR testing in remote or low-resource settings.
Herr Lab advances protein expression profiling of circulating tumor cells using microfluidic western blotting
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are detached primary cancer cells found in the circulatory system that are implicated in the metastasis of cancer. Herr and collaborators have developed a microfluidic western blot for an 8-plex protein panel for individual CTCs, derived from estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients, that advances the state of the art in CTC characterization with tiny sample sizes.