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Professor Phil Messersmith Appointed Member of the NADCRC
Professor Phil Messersmith has been appointed as a member of the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council( NADCRC), the advisory council of the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research(NIDCR) of the National Institute of Health (NIH). The NADCRC is responsible for advising, consulting with, and making recommendations to the Secretary of the Department…
Read MoreConolly Lab achieves new MPI milestone
BioE PhD Bo Zheng and other researchers in Professor Steven Conolly’s lab have demonstrated that Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) enables monitoring of cellular grafts with high contrast, sensitivity, and quantitativeness in vivo. They report the first MPI cell tracking study, showing in vivo monitoring of human neural graft clearance in the rat brain, this week in Nature.
Read MoreFour faculty present at ‘Summer Davos’
Four Berkeley BioE-affiliated faculty presented at the 2015 world economic forum’s ‘Annual Meeting of the New Champions’ in Dalian, China, informally called “Summer Davos”.
Read MoreBioE startup Privail
Learn more about diagnostics startup Privail from BioE alum and CEO Anwaar Al-Zireeni in this Elevator Pitch video from Skydeck.
Read MoreKumar and Murthy create hydrogel for fast cell culture studies
Bioengineering professors Sanjay Kumar and Niren Murthy have collaborated to develop a new materials technology that allows them to simultaneously create many cell culture environments with defined material properties for high-throughput analysis.
Read MoreBioE ranks in top 10 nationwide
Once again Berkeley BioE has been ranked 9th in the nation among undergraduate bioengineering programs by U.S. News & World Report!
UC Berkeley remains the #1 public university and the #3 overall undergraduate engineering program.
Go Bears!
Eko’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA
The digital stethoscope designed by BioE undergrad startup Eko Devices has won federal permission to enter the market.
Read MoreHealy’s brown fat research in Daily Cal
Check out more on the Bioengineering/Nutritional Sciences research collaboration to implant energy-burning brown fat into mice to stimulate weight loss, featuring Professor Kevin Healy.
Read MoreThe bat man is here – meet new faculty member Michael Yartsev
Learn more about Assistant Professor Michael Yartsev, a new Berkeley faculty member with joint appointments in Bioengineering, the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute.
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