Bioengineering News
Read about the transforming walker that can help seniors avoid falls, designed by a bioengineering capstone design team.
Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee and collaborators are one of only eleven top university teams nationwide to receive a Phase Two Tissue Chip Award from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
Not only is Berkeley the #1 public university in the nation, Berkeley Bioengineering has been ranked the #9 bioengineering undergraduate program in the US, by U.S. News & World Report. This is one step higher than last year’s ranking – #1, here we come!
BioE professor Sanjay Kumar has edited a new book with Professor Adam Engler, of UC San Diego. Titled Mechanotransduction, the book is Volume 126 in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series.
Pioneering research by Professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee, aimed at recreating human heart and liver tissues on “biochips”, was featured in the Daily Cal.
UC Berkeley has awarded a 2014-2015 Presidential Chair Fellows Curriculum Enrichment Grant to the Department of Bioengineering for revision of the undergraduate computational biology concentration.
New research on “organs-on-a-chip” in Professor Kevin Healy’s lab is featured on Wired.com this week!
Danish TV program, “Tech and City” filmed an episode at UC Berkeley featuring technology from two bioengineering faculty laboratories. They showcased Professor Seung-Wuk Lee’s virus-electric energy work, and the CellScope project from Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab, explained by PhD alum and lecturer Frankie Myers.
The first 1.7 million treatments of semi-synthetic artemisinin, engineered by Professor Jay Keasling’s lab using synthetic biology, has been shipped to malaria-endemic countries in Africa.
UC Berkeley professor and synthetic biology pioneer Jay Keasling called for ‘national initiative’ to boost bioengineering, stressing the need for a federal strategy to ensure continued U.S. leadership in a field he said can yield significant medical benefits for people throughout the world, “and even save lives.”
A team of students in the Fall 2013 Bioengineering Senior Capstone Design course have won Second Place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Undergraduate Design Competition this summer.
Two Bioengineering graduates were selected to be the student commencement speakers at the 2014 College of Engineering Commencement ceremonies on May 18, 2014. Rachel Cheng and Helen Sun delivered a dynamic and inspiring tag-team speech to their peers.
New research from professor Irina Conboy’s lab shows that oxytocin, known as the ‘trust hormone’, is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair, and that in mice it declines with age.
Single-cell western blots by Herr and Schaffer labs bring microarray frameworks to highly specific protein separations, expanding the study of single-cell variation to the proteome.
Jay Keasling, professor of chemical & biomolecular engineering and bioengineering and CEO of JBEI, has won the 2014 Renewable Energy Prize portion of the prestigious Eni Awards for his achievements in “the microbial production of hydrocarbon fuels.”
How much do BioE students love Berkeley? SO much that they put their money where their hearts are. Congratulations 2014 BioE Bears – top fundraisers for the senior class gift!
Bioengineering Assistant Professor John Dueber has been named a Bakar Fellow at UC Berkeley.
A team of BioE Master of Engineering students took first place in the campus Big Ideas competition for their ENOSE non-invasive blood sugar monitoring system, while BioE undergraduate capstone teams took 3rd place and an honorable mention.
Congratulations to BioE undergrad Robert Chen, who will receive a grant enabling him to work with Dr. Tom Ellis of Imperial College London on a genetic engineering project that he proposed.
The CellScope otoscope, based on the CellScope pioneered by Dan Fletcher’s lab, is being developed by alumnus Erik Douglas’ startup Cellscope, Inc.
Bioengineering major Brooke Liang is among the five finalists for the University Medal, the top award for a graduating undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Congratulations Brooke!
Professor Adam Arkin has been named one of six recipients of the 2013 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. The E.O. Lawrence Award, the Department of Energy’s highest scientific honor, recognizes Arkin “for his work advancing biological and environmental sciences.”
BioE undergraduate Rahul and recent grad Julie are featured in this video of appreciation for Berkeley campus donors. Watch “Thanks to You” on YouTube.
Founded by 2012 undergraduate alumna Charvi Shetty, and a product of the BioE 192 Capstone Senior Design course, Knox Medical Diagnostics is designing a portable spirometer with a mobile interface that objectively tracks asthma severity to allow for a personalized and real-time action plan. Knox was a winner of the 2014 Biotech Challenge and is now one of the 2014 cohort of The Foundry @ CITRIS teams, with a six-month residency providing access to design, manufacturing and business development tools, along with a community of entrepreneurs and experts to help bring their products and ideas to market.
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Phillip Messersmith as the newest member of our faculty.