Professor Sanjay Kumar and his colleagues have taken proteins from nerve cells and used them to create a biological version of a synthetic coating used in everyday liquid products, such as paint and liquid cosmetics, to keep small particles from clumping together. The synthetic coatings are often called polymer brushes. This marriage of materials science and biology could give birth to a flexible, sensitive coating that is easy and cheap to manufacture in large quantities.
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Alumna Shetty in the Wall Street Journal
BioE alumna Charvi Shetty is an entrepreneur launching Knox Medical Devices, her own startup company working on a device to track asthma symptoms. The device began as a project in the Senior Capstone Design course, taught by Amy Herr.
Capstone students design Ninja Walker
Read about the transforming walker that can help seniors avoid falls, designed by a bioengineering capstone design team.
Healy and Lee receive Phase 2 Tissue Chip Award
Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee and collaborators are one of only eleven top university teams nationwide to receive a Phase Two Tissue Chip Award from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
Berkeley BioE ranked #9 program in U.S.
Not only is Berkeley the #1 public university in the nation, Berkeley Bioengineering has been ranked the #9 bioengineering undergraduate program in the US, by U.S. News & World Report. This is one step higher than last year’s ranking – #1, here we come!
New book from Sanjay Kumar
BioE professor Sanjay Kumar has edited a new book with Professor Adam Engler, of UC San Diego. Titled Mechanotransduction, the book is Volume 126 in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series.
Biochip research in the Daily Cal
Pioneering research by Professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee, aimed at recreating human heart and liver tissues on “biochips”, was featured in the Daily Cal.
BioE receives computational biology curriculum enrichment grant
UC Berkeley has awarded a 2014-2015 Presidential Chair Fellows Curriculum Enrichment Grant to the Department of Bioengineering for revision of the undergraduate computational biology concentration.
Healy Lab in Wired News
New research on “organs-on-a-chip” in Professor Kevin Healy’s lab is featured on Wired.com this week!