BioE News
A successful 2017 Bioengineering High School Competition
The annual Bioengineering High School Competition, run by our Bioengineering Honor Society, featured a keynote speech by Professor Tejal Desai, BioE PhD alumna and Chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences. Read more about the competition at the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
Read MoreMEng Capstone Project Highlight: Applied Rejuvenative Therapies
A team of BioE Master of Engineering students is working on aging and rejuvenation in the Conboy Lab.
Read MoreCapstone team takes a bite out of Shark Tank
The capstone team of Darya Fadavi, Jeffrey Feng, and Noreen Wauford was one of only three teams to win Accelerator Awards in the UCSF Surgical Innovations Shark Tank event. They will receive $25,000 in seed funding plus engineering and development support to advance their project, “Quantitative Assessment of Degree & Spatial Extent of Pain Nerve Block.” They were the only winning team with student members, and co-presented with their UCSF mentors, Professors Matthew Haight and Merlin Larson.
Read MoreM.Eng. Capstone Project Highlight: Prevention of Early Breastfeeding Cessation
Bioengineering Master of Engineering students are developing a revolutionary breast cream to help mothers continue breastfeeding their newborn children.
Read MoreBioE startup mFluiDx publishes their detection chip in Science
mFluiDx, a startup founded by BioE PhD alum Charlie Yeh and currently in the CITRIS Foundry incubator, has published their development of a portable, self-powered, low-cost nucleic acid detection chip. This simple chip allows rapid quantitative digital nucleic acid detection directly from small human blood samples, an alternative to real-time PCR testing in remote or low-resource settings.
Read MoreHerr Lab advances protein expression profiling of circulating tumor cells using microfluidic western blotting
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are detached primary cancer cells found in the circulatory system that are implicated in the metastasis of cancer. Herr and collaborators have developed a microfluidic western blot for an 8-plex protein panel for individual CTCs, derived from estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients, that advances the state of the art in CTC characterization with tiny sample sizes.
Read MoreFeature story: Designing healthy futures
See how students in bioengineering and other fields are working at the intersection of design and health at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
Read MoreM.Eng. Capstone Project Highlight: Commercializing Nanocarriers for Neurological Diseases
A capstone team of bioengineering MEng students is developing nanocarriers to deliver medicine to inaccessible regions of the brain to treat neurologic and brain-related diseases.
Read MoreTwo BioE startups graduating from CITRIS Foundry
BioE startups GenEdit (Prof Niren Murthy and PhD Kunwoo Lee) and SmartPhage (MEng Job Shiach) have completed their time as members of the CITRIS Foundry’s startup program and are going out to change the world.
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