BioE News

August 2005 Dr. Stanley Berger, Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed to the Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair in Engineering.

July 29, 2005 Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Adam Arkin and David Schaffer, assistant Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, reported on a novel strategy for taming HIV infections on July 29 in the journal Cell.

July 2005 Congratulations to Dr. Budinger! His team just won the Bronze Medal for the Men’s 8 category at the 2005 USRowing Southwest Regional Masters Championships. The race took place at Lake Merritt on July 10. Way to row Dr. B!

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”.