Bioengineering News

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Lee’s color-based sensor featured in The Scientist

April 1, 2014

Inspired by turkey skin, Seung-Wuk Lee’s team has devised a bacteriophage-based sensor whose color changes upon binding specific molecules. This research was published in January in Nature Communications.

Healy quoted on bioprinting

March 26, 2014

Bioengineering Chair Kevin Healy was quoted in an overview of bioprinting technologies in Tech News World.

MTM “SmartDerm” team wins $70K from UCSF CTSI Catalyst Award Program

March 19, 2014

MTM project “SmartDerm: A Monitoring System for Decubitus Ulcer Prevention” received $70,000 from UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute to support early translational research.

Stem cell research may unlock secrets of incurable diseases

March 10, 2014

Stem cell research in Professor David Schaffer’s lab is profiled in the Daily Cal.

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Mofrad shows how Staph bacteria adhere to nanostructures

March 4, 2014

Professor Mohammad Mofrad and his lab have investigated, for the first time, how individual Staphylococcus Aureus cells glom onto metallic nanostructures of various shapes and sizes. Their research could guide the development of bacteria-resistant materials.

Vlassakis going to Lindau Nobel Meeting

February 28, 2014

Graduate student Julea Vlassakis has been selected to participate in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held from 29 June to 4 July 2014, in Lindau, Germany. Only the 600 most qualified young researchers can be given the opportunity to enrich and share the unique atmosphere of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

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Natividad-Diaz creates game-changing monitor for HIV

February 12, 2014

Bioe grad student has developed a handheld cell counter the size of a Rubik’s Cube that’s affordable and easy to use to check CD4 levels in blood samples.

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How damaged is your DNA?

February 10, 2014

A startup by BioE alum Jon Tang wants your DNA.

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Capstone startup aims to revolutionize modern stethoscope

February 10, 2014

Eko Devices, a startup company by a BioE alum that spun out from a BioE 192 capstone design project, was featured in the Daily Cal for their high-tech stethoscope redesign.

MTM and PhD team gets $2.7mil to reduce premature births

February 7, 2014

A team led by bioengineering Master of Translational Medicine and PhD students, along with UCSF bioengineering and medical faculty and staff, has received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $2.7 million over three years for a collaborative project aimed at reducing premature births.
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Herr and Li new AIMBE Fellows

January 28, 2014

Congratulations to professors Amy Herr and Song Li, new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!

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Seung-Wuk Lee Lab creates early warning system for toxins

January 21, 2014

Seung-Wuk Lee, UC Berkeley associate professor of bioengineering, led a research team to create color-changing biosensors, assembled from benign viruses, that can detect volatile chemicals.

MTM article in Science Translational Medicine

January 8, 2014

An article published in Science Translational Medicine outlines a new approach to interdisciplinary education and was written by leaders of the Master of Translational Medicine program.

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Kumar and Murthy receive Keck Fund award

January 8, 2014

Bioengineering professors Sanjay Kumar and Niren Murthy have been granted a $500,000 research award from the W.M. Keck Foundation for their project, Single Tumor Cell Proteomics for Diagnosis and Prognosis.

Professor Stanley Berger has passed away

December 5, 2013

Stanley A. Berger, Montford G. Cook professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and bioengineering and a renowned expert in fluid mechanics, died on Nov. 25, 2013. He was 79, and died at his home in Berkeley of pneumonia.

Healy named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2013

Kevin Healy, Chair of the Bioengineering Department and Professor of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Video of Lee Lab’s soft robots on InsideScience TV

November 19, 2013

Bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee’s breakthrough soft robotics were featured in a video on InsideScience TV. InsideScience interviewed Lee as well as BioE student Malav Desai and recent alum Eddie Wang. 

Two students win AiChE poster awards

November 14, 2013

Bioengineering PhD students Augusto Tentori and Yuchen Pan took home outstanding poster awards at the Fall 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, a part of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Symposium. Both are members of Berkeley bioengineering professor Amy Herr’s lab.

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Berkeley iGEM in Popular Science

November 4, 2013

The Berkeley iGEM team was featured in the Popular Science Biohackers blog for their synthetic production of indigo dye, presented this weekend at the iGEM World Championship Jamboree.

Li Lab shows physical cues help mature cells revert into embryonic-like stem cells

October 21, 2013

October 21, 2013 Professor Song Li and his research team have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when inducing mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.

Alumni profile – Ehsan Saadat

October 16, 2013

This alumni profile of Ehsan Saadat appeared in the 2013 Bioengineering Department annual report. Ehsan (B.S. 2006) is a third year resident in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Tim Downing in BMES video

October 4, 2013

Check out BioE Ph.D. student Tim Downing explaining his research in this video from BMES 2013.

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Congratulations CellScope, ASAP finalist

October 1, 2013

A new cellscope in education project, “Smartphone Becomes Microscope”, is one of six finalists chosen for the Accelerating Science Award Program. 

Fletcher in the Wall Street Journal

September 23, 2013

Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher wrote a short opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal Friday, September 20, 2013.

Alum helps run Bioengineering Bootcamp for high school students

September 20, 2013

BioE undergraduate alum Sasha Denisin, now a PhD student at Stanford, partnered with the Stanford Department of Bioengineering to run a 6-week hands-on design experience in bioengineering for high school students.