News and Events

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Fall Welcome

Join us on Monday, September 15, 11:30 – 1:30 at the Campanile for the 2025 Fall Welcome Picnic!

Bioengineering majors of all levels are invited to enjoy a picnic lunch while getting to know each other and our faculty.

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Alumna startup Aluna acquired by Huma

June 12, 2025

Aluna, a company spun out of an undergraduate capstone project by alumna Charvi Shetty, has been acquired by Huma. Aluna developed an easy and fun remote monitoring system for respiratory diseases, which will now be able to reach patients in Huma’s more than 150 U.S. health systems, serving over 500,000 people.

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UC Berkeley Awards $200K Venture Grant to HypO2Regen Therapeutics

June 8, 2025

Professor Phil Messersmith and colleagues have launched HypO2Regen Therapeutics, a startup developing novel, disease-modifying therapeutics for chronic intractable inflammatory diseases, including the first cell-free stem cell treatment that induces true regeneration of damaged tissue. Their first effort takes aim at periodontitis, which affects over 300 million people worldwide.

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Stanley Qi: “For many people, waiting is not an option”

May 22, 2025

PhD alumnus Stanley Qi, now a professor at Stanford University, is interviewed about his work developing advanced gene-editing tools to treat life-threatening diseases and slow the onset of neurological aging.

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Equipad wins Collider Cup Alumni Expo Award

May 22, 2025

BioE-founded startup Equipad is on a mission to provide free, eco-friendly, accessible menstrual care in innovative roll format in restrooms everywhere. Recent BioE graduates Sanjana Gurram and Bryan Wong, with Master of Development Practice alumna Pooja Patel, have developed the materials and dispenser voted best alumni project at the Collider Cup.

Departmental Events

In addition to our established annual events, the department offers frequent enrichment and training events for students, some in partnership with other campus units.

Grad school application workshops, alumni chats, startup founder panels, poster sessions and more occur throughout the school year.

Check out the campus events calendar for even more opportunities.

Spotlight: Bioengineering In Depth

waist-up photo of Li in lab coat, holding molecular model in front of lab bench

Stanley Qi: “For many people, waiting is not an option”

PhD alumnus Stanley Qi, now a professor at Stanford University, is interviewed about his work developing advanced gene-editing tools to treat life-threatening diseases and slow the onset of neurological aging.

Photo of Astolfi standing in front of a soapbark tree on the UC Berkeley campus, wearing an earring of macaw feathers.

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Bioengineering doctoral student Maria Astolfi and her colleagues argue for a new type of partnership with indigenous peoples to create a more ethical bioeconomy.

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BlotSeq single cell sequencing – animated!

BioE postdoc Trinh Lam’s animated video explains how Herr Lab’s BlotSeq single-cell tool uses sequencing data to guide protein selection without the need to predefine targets, making the process more flexible.