BioE News

March 2008 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee has received a 2008 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant education activities.

January 16, 2008 Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

January 9, 2008 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, along with researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive treatments for disease, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

January  2008 Associate Professor of Bioengineering Dan Fletcher has been awarded $100,000 by Microsoft Research to turn the camera of a cell phone into a clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples remotely for evaluation by specialists.  Microsoft Research is supporting academics from 10 universities around the world in their research of…

December 14, 2007 – Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

December 13, 2007 Lawrence Berkeley Lab has named Dr. Tom Budinger one of ten winners of the 2007 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for his research with Jonathan Maltz.

December 2007 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have discovered a technique that integrates microfluidic cell culture and lysis platform for automated cell analysis that improves on systems which require multiple reagents and manual procedures. Their article made the cover of the December 2007 Lab on a Chip journal.

December 2007 Dan Fletcher, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, has been appointed new Deputy Division Director in the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

November 19, 2007 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have discovered a technique that for the first time enables the detection of biomolecules’ dynamic reactions in a single living cell.