March 17, 2011 UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee and his laboratory have made a major advancement in microfluidics research, which could lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes.
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Herr and Kumar Receive NSF CAREER Awards
February 14, 2011 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professors Amy Herr and Sanjay Kumar have received 2011 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant educational activities.
Conolly and Schaffer reap more CIRM awards
February 9, 2011 Bioengineering Professors Steve Conolly and David Schaffer were awarded renewals for their Tools & Techniques grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Their grants were the only ones of this type from UC Berkeley renewed in this round.
Herr named Lilly Young Investigator
January 4, 2011 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been chosen to receive a 2010 Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry.
Alumnus Di Carlo engineers restraint
November 2010 Bioengineering Phd and BS alumnus Dino Di Carlo, now Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UCLA, was profiled in the November 2010 edition of Innovations, from Berkeley Engineering.
Berkeley Science Review features synthetic biology
November 2010 The growing field of synthetic biology is featured in the Fall 2010 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.
NorCal students prep for iGEM Jamboree
October 28, 2010 The UC Berkeley iGEM team joined students from four northern California college campuses at UCSF on October 23 to practice and fine-tune their presentations for the upcoming iGEM Jamboree.
Amy Herr NIH New Innovator
September 30, 2010 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been awarded a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award!
Two BioE Alums are NIH New Innovators
September 30, 2010 Two Bioengineering Ph.D. alumni have received NIH Director’s New Innovator awards for 2010!Dino DiCarlo, PhD 2006, and Michelle Khine, PhD 2005, have both received this five-year, $1.5 million grant. The New Innovator Award is the largest and most prestigious grant awarded to junior investigators by the NIH, designed to enable recipients to […]