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6/6 – MTM Symposium 2025

Master of Translational Medicine Final Symposium

June 6
8 a.m. – Noon
Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, UCSF Mission Bay

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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.

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Berman wins Strauss Scholarship

May 19, 2025

BioE junior Emma Berman has been awarded the Strauss Scholarship, an honor which supports a current Berkeley student pursue a self-initiated public service project. Emma is leading a student-driven community initiative to destigmatize the current social narrative surrounding hearing loss to create a new image for wearable hearing technology. Congratulations!

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Monica Kapil named SJSU Mechanical Engineering Alumna of the Year

May 15, 2025

Congratulations to BioE PhD alumna Monica Kapil, the first woman ever named Alumna of the Year by the SJSU Mechanical Engineering Department!

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.