March 2010 BioE undergraduate alumnus Amit Jain was named a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for 2010.
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Keasling in National Academy of Engineering
February 18, 2010 Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, was elected this week to the National Academy of Engineering.
Amy Herr named Sloan Research Fellow
February 16, 2010 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been named a 2010 Sloan Research Fellow.
Mofrad Receives NSF CAREER Award
February 2, 2010 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has received a 2010 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant education activities.
Fletcher talks cell motion on video
February 2010 Bioengineer Associate Professor Dan Fletcher works to understand, on a cellular level, the physiology of movement within the human body. Check out his research, and it’s relation to the Olympics and our own movement, in this National Science Foundation video.
Lee Lab develops cancer-targeting nanoprobes
January 29, 2010 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the mission’s status.
Bioengineers receive Keck Grant for regeneration
January 27, 2010 Bioengineering researchers have received a $1 million grant from the Keck Foundation to pursue research on limb and organ regeneration.
Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass
January 27, 2010 A collaboration led by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Jay Keasling, and by bioengineering graduate student Eric Steen, has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
Bioengineers launch first open-source genetic parts production facility
January 20, 2010 With a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these “DNA parts” in synthetic organisms to produce […]