BioE News

June 2005 Dr. Irina Conboy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Faculty Research Fund for the Biological Sciences. The funds will go to support her research project,establishing a Dedicated Mouse Colony for Testing the Regenerative Capacity of hES Cells in vivo.

June 2005 Dr. Mohammad Mofrad, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a Regent’s Junior Faculty Fellowship for the summer of 2005. 

May 2005 Menzies Chen, Bioengineering alumnus and researcher in the Fletcher Lab, has been awarded one of five UC Berkeley Sustainability Awards.

May 2005 Local biotech company Plexxikon hosted eleven Berkeley students on May 5 for a full tour, lecture on drug development, and visits with company executives. The students are all participants in the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program or the QB3 Undergraduate Research Biotech Internship Program. 

May 2005 Bioengineering professor Irina Conboy has just been selected as a Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging.

May 2005 Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received an award from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund in support of his research, “Some assembly required: Rebuilding the actin motility machinery”.

Check out our gallery of photos fromCommencement 2005.

April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee was awarded a $75,000 research grant from National Academies Keck Futures Initiative today, for his research topic “Quantum Nanoplasmonic Probes for In Vivo Molecular Imaging”. 

April 2005 Marcio von Muhlen’s poster, A Piezoelectric Microjet for Drug Delivery won second place in the Spring 2005 Undergraduate Science and Engineering Poster Session today.