Bioengineering News
The Master of Engineering capstone team of Alison Burkland, Daniel Campo, Dragos Puscalau, and Gregory Wohlleb — working with bioengineering professor Kevin Healy — received the 2016 Fung Institute Mission Award for their work on a Point of Care Low-Cost Approach for HIV Monitoring.
Bioengineering department manager Nikki Humphreys is a recipient of the 2016 UC Berkeley Excellence in Management Award!
Congratulations to our 2016 recipients of departmental fellowships! Donor-funded fellowships are an important vehicle for supporting our outstanding students. Independent funding allows them to work on pioneering research not yet funded by faculty grants, and to pursue their interests and passions. Our heartfelt thanks to the generous donors who have endowed these fellowships!
The UC Berkeley Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor. Congratulations to the Outstanding GSI Award Winners for 2015-16 from BioE courses: Andrew Bremer, Doug Kelkhoff, and Preeya Khanna!
The Bioengineering Honor Society hosted their third annual Bioengineering High School Competition (BioEHSC) at UC Berkeley last Saturday, April 9. BioEHSC is intended to help high school students explore bioengineering, the application of engineering principles to biological or medical systems.
Check out this great interview with PhD alum and Bolt Threads founder David Breslauer at SXSW!
The capstone team SurgiSun made it to the semifinals of the Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge, competing against graduate and postdoc-level innovation teams. Amy Lyden and Neha Kumar presented “SurgiSun: A Surgical Light for the Developing World” at the showcase held at UC Berkeley on April 8th.
The ForSight capstone team of Amanda Haack, Zane Liu, Ian Lin, and Ashu Shrestha will be competing this week at the Rice 360° Sixth Annual Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition.
Good Luck ForSight!
An MTM student team was recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative University for their low-cost kidney transplant monitor.
Professor Michael Yartsev has been named a 2016 Searle Scholar! The Searle Scholars Program supports the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.
Congratulations to BioE students Amy Lyden and Amanda Haack, recipients of 2016 Whitaker International Fellowships! The Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program sends biomedical engineering students for one year anywhere outside the U. S. or Canada to conduct research, hold internships, or complete coursework.
Eight bioengineering students have been selected to participate in the 2016 Biodesign Immersion Experience. Created by Professor Amy Herr and funded by grant from the NIH, the BIE is an 8-week summer program that prepares bioengineers to connect engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs. Students have either recently taken or will be taking BioE 192, the senior…
UC Berkeley has been rated the #1 best value college in the US by Forbes magazine.
MTM student Joshua Yang will be competing on Monday, March 28 against 9 other Berkeley grad students for cash and a chance to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam in April.
Michael Yartsev and collaborators have been awarded a $1.2M grant from the Human Frontier Science Program. They will use a molecular, neural and comparative approach to study vocal learning in bats.
Intel Corporation former CEO and Chairman Andrew S. Grove passed away today at the age of 79. Grove was a UC Berkeley alumnus and a staunch supporter of bioengineering, who donated the founding gift for our Master of Translational Medicine program. He will be missed.
Zephyrus Biosciences, a startup company spun out of professor Amy Herr’s lab, was acquired today by Bio-techne, a top biosciences tools company. Zephyrus was led by BioE PhD Kelly Gardner and pioneered commercialization of Herr Lab’s single-cell western blotting technique, which they will continue as part of the Protein Platforms Division of Bio-Techne.
New rankings from US News & World Report place our UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering tied for 6th best in the nation, up from 7th for the past two years.
Bioengineering Adjunct Professor Paul Adams has been name Division Director for the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Bioengineering research has a personal connection for alumna Adeeti Ullal.
Master of Translational Medicine student Tyler Schmeckpeper is a member of the winning team for the first UC Berkeley Intramural Global Health Case Competition.
Zeinab Jahed, an Applied Science & Technology graduate student in Mohammad Mofrad’s lab, has won the first place prize in the 2016 “The Art of Science” image contest at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking“, shows a scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus Aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top…
BioE alumna Shilpi Mathrani talks about her experience in UC Berkeley’s Bio-Manufacturing to Market program in this feature story.
BioE alumnus Connor Landgraf (BS 2013, MEng 2014) has been awarded the 2016 Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement By Young Alumni!
Bioengineering alumnus Dino Di Carlo, (B.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2006), has been named the 2016 Outstanding Young Investigator by the Materials Research Society. He is currently a professor in the department of bioengineering at UCLA. His award winning research, Microstructured Materials for Cell Analysis and Regeneration, will be presented at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit on Thursday, March 31 at UCLA.