April 5, 2013 – Research by one of our Master of Translational Medicine program research teams is published in JoVE and featured on medGadget — “New Vascular Catheter Remote Controlled Using MRI”. The project involves a new system that uses the magnetic field of an intraoperative MRI to move a catheter through blood vessels with high […]
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Amy Herr, Mining the Proteome
April 3, 2013 – Check out an in-depth article on research by bioengineering professor Amy Herr, one of the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley. Herr is developing a microfluidic approach to protein assay, a way to quickly and efficiently analyze dozens of human proteins at a time.
Alumna Tsai new Whitaker grantee
April 2, 2013 – Congratulations to recent BioE alumna Michelle Tsai! Michelle will be spending a year in Ireland working on biomedical devices as a 2013-2014 Whitaker Fellow.
Mofrad Lab models how cells interact with surroundings
March 21, 2013 – Cells interact constantly with their surroundings, but it’s very difficult to observe the main player in this interaction – a protein called integrin. Professor Mohammad Mofrad and bioengineering graduate student Mehrdad Mehrbod have developed a computer model of integrin that gives researchers a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell’s inner […]
Terry Johnson gets Distinguished Teaching Award
BioE Lecturer Terry Johnson has been awarded a 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award!
Video Interview – Sanjay Kumar talks research
March 5, 2013 – Associate Professor Sanjay Kumar, winner of the 2012 STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award, discusses his work on adult hippocampal neural stem cells in this video interview.
Fletcher 2013 AIMBE Fellow
February 20, 2013 – Congratulations to Professor Dan Fletcher, new member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
Bioengineer to Imagineer
January 31, 2013 – BioE undergrad Andrew Lin is part of a team of finalists in the Disney ImagiNations competition.
Fletcher Lab squeezes breast cancer cells
December 19, 2012 – This week researchers from Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab presented exciting findings showing for the first time that mechanical forces alone can revert and stop the out-of-control growth of cancer cells.