BioE News

April 19, 2007 Bioengineering undergrad Albert Mach received the Best Verbal Presentation award in today’s College of Engineering Undergraduate Spring Poster Session.

February 12, 2007 A large animal study has given further support to bioengineering and mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky’s irreversible electroporation technique.

February 9, 2007 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was profiled in the February 9, 2007 issue of Science magazine.

February 1, 2007 – We are pleased to announce that a Berkeley-led partnership has been chosen to receive a $500 million grant from the energy firm BP to develop new, cleaner sources of fuel. The campus will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a 10-year effort, known…

January 18, 2007 – Two bioengineering graduate students and Professor Dan Fletcher have published new research on actin networks in the science journal Nature. Ovijit Chaudhuri and Sapun Parekh are lead authors on the paper “Reversible stress softening of actin networks”, published January 18, 2007.

January 4, 2007 We are deeply saddened that UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean A. Richard Newton passed away January 2, 2007, from pancreatic cancer. Newton was a visionary leader, a dynamic force for change and growth in the college, a pioneer in integrated circuit design, and a staunch friend of the Bioengineering Department. He…

December 1, 2006 A small group of Bioengineering undergrads got a sneak peek at the new Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Building in November.

November 27, 2006 Bioenginering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured on the Dr. Dean Edell segment on ABC-7 news, discussing his project to affordably synthesize a malaria drug using synthetic biology. Watch the broadcast at ABC News (Windows Media Player required).

November 15, 2006 Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, has been named the first Discover Magazine Scientist of the Year.