BioE News

April 12, 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and his lab group have cleared another hurdle in their quest for an economical way to synthesize malaria drugs.

April 5, 2006 We are pleased to announce the much-anticipated publication of a new book by one of our own! Ethics of Emerging Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges, by Dr.’s Thomas and Miriam Budinger, is a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical issues presented by modern technologies.

April 2006 Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received a 2006 Beckman Young Investigators Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

April 2006 Graduating BioE senior Elizabeth Hua-Mei Kellogg was named recipient of the 2006 Departmental Citation in Bioengineering.

Spring 2006 Recent Bioengineering alumnus Yick Lee published an article on brain aneurysms in the Spring 2006 issue of California Engineer, a student journal of the UC engineering colleges.

February 9, 2006 Steve Conolly, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, was selected to deliver one of the Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectures for Young Engineers at the 2006 meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in Irvine, California.

February 7, 2006 Viruses can be forced to evolve in ways beneficial to humans, according to new research by David Schaffer, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group.

February 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and collaborators have developed a technique to guide the evolution of certain proteins toward a desired outcome.

February 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and collaborators have developed a technique to guide the evolution of certain proteins toward a desired outcome.