BioE News

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.

April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Dr. Boris Rubinsky contributed research and background on cryogenics for the April 19 episode of the NOVA Science NOW tv show.

April 2005 Bioengineering professor Jay Keasling has been appointed the new Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

April 5, 2005 –  S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

March 16, 2005 Three undergraduate researchers in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab – Menzies Chen, Laleh Jalilian and Marcio von Mulen – have been noticed by the media for their research on a needle-less microjet injector.

March 2005 Congratulations to Associate Professor Luke Lee! Dr. Lee was awarded the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering this month. The Professorship was given to our department five years ago by Jack Lloyd, Chair of the Bioengineering Department’s Industrial Advisory Board. The chair is awarded to a junior faculty member…

March 2005 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates BioE senior Hedi Razavi, selected to receive the 2005 Departmental Citation Award in Bioengineering.

February 2005 Smart search technology being developed by Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin and research partner Professor Marti Hearst is featured in the February 2005 issue of Lab Notes, a publication of the College of Engineering. Hearst and Arkin are working on a software project called BioText, designed to help researchers search online medical journal articles…