BioE News
Congratulations 2020 award winners!
Congratulations to our 2020 undergraduate award winners: Eric Hu, Departmental Citation, Connor Tou and Hasan Ahmad, Chair’s Award in Bioengineering, and Elizabeth Zhang, Bioengineering Service Award. Outstanding work by all!
Read MoreKumar Lab discovers new mechanism that tumors use to adhere and migrate through brain tissue
Sanjay Kumar’s lab has identified a mechanism used by tumor cells to adhere to and migrate through a nanoporous, three-dimensional extracellular matrix characteristic of brain tissue.
Read MorePatrick Hsu explain antibody test validation on CNN
Professor Hsu appeared on CNN Tonight April 29 to explain the results of his work on COVID-19 antibody test validation with the Covid Testing Project.
Read MoreFletcher Lab partnership with Gladstone Institute on COVID-19 testing
Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab is partnering with researchers at the Gladstone Institutes to develop a fast, inexpensive field test for COVID-19 that uses mobile phone technology and RNA analysis.
Read MoreHerr Lab develops microfluidic device to analyze embryos
Just published in Science Advances, bioengineers have developed more new tools for understanding mammalian development. Thanks to research led by Amy Herr and recent PhD Elisabet Rosàs-Canyelles, scientists can examine the crucial period when RNA molecules tell cells what they should do. The team developed a multi-modal microfluidic device capable of observing what’s happening with RNA and corresponding proteins at the same time and in the same cell.
Read MoreAdam Arkin leads new national lab team to improve COVID-19 testing
A consortium of national labs has formed five teams to conduct R&D to help improve the nation’s COVID-19 testing capabilities. Professor Adam Arkin leads a team developing computational approaches to develop and optimize COVID-19 diagnostic tests, detection methods, and other applications.
Read MorePatrick Hsu on COVID-19 test reliability in the NYTimes
Prof. Hsu is one of the leaders of a round-the-clock effort to validate the accuracy of 14 of the many COVID-19 antibody test kits now on the market. Although the results are promising, they are also complex and show much room for improvement, especially in the area of false positives. The team will continue to validate the increasing variety of tests to inform medical testing procedures. Their pre-publish results are
Yartsev receives Penn Medicine’s Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences Rising Star Award
Professor Michael Yarsev has been named the recipient of the Rising Star Award in neuroscience research from the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The 2020 award honors a young researcher for outstanding contributions to the technology of brain science research.
Read MoreCongratulations new BioE NSF Graduate Fellows
Congratulations to incoming and current PhD students, and BS alumni, who have been awarded new NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
Congratulations to current PhD students Joann Gu, Melod Mehdipour, and Hannah Schmitz; incoming doctoral students Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, Jessica Herrera, Nicholas Higgins, Claire Hilburger, Kevin Joslin, and Lucas Waldburger; and BS alumni Francesca Zhoufan Li, Amy Lyden (also an incoming PhD), Tomer Rotstein, Connor Tour and Brenda Yang.