Kumar Lab creates biological polymer brushes

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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.

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Healy and Lee receive Phase 2 Tissue Chip Award

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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). 

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Berkeley BioE ranked #9 program in U.S.

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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!

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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. 

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