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 […]
BioE News
BioE Alum receives Innovator Award
November 2010 Bioengineering undergraduate alumnus James Moon has been awarded the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award.
Keaveny gets Mow Medal
December 10, 2009 Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Tony Keaveny has been awarded the Van C. Mow Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mofrad publishes new BioE Text
December 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has published his second Bioengineering text: Cellular Mechanotransduction: Diverse Perspectives from Molecules to Tissues.
Charting the future of Bioengineering
November 2009 Bioengineering faculty sat down with the Dean of Engineering for a roundtable chat on the past, and future, of the Department and the field.
Bioengineers can dance!
November 2009 Two bioengineering undergraduates, Nickesh Viswanathan and Anwesh Thakur, made it all the way to the quarterfinals of NBC-TV’s America’s Got Talent this summer, with their Berkeley Bollywood dance group, Ishaara.
Bioengineers featured in Berkeley Science Review
November 2009 Research on point-of-care diagnostics by Dan Fletcher’s lab, as well as Fletcher’s own experiences in Washington DC, are featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.
Tirrell featured in Innovations
October 12, 2009 Our new Berkeley Bioengineering Department Chair, Matthew Tirrell, is featured in this month’s Innovations email newsletter from the College of Engineering. Tirrell talks about his excitement at joining Berkeley and plans for the department.
Bioengineers use inkjet printer for gene expression
October 5, 2009 Bioengineering Graduate Group Affliliate Michel Maharbiz and BioE grad student Daniel Cohen have pioneered a new technique to control gene expression in two dimensions over time, using a modified inkjet printer.