Bioengineering News
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.
Bioengineering Chair Kevin Healy was quoted in an overview of bioprinting technologies in Tech News World.
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 in Professor David Schaffer’s lab is profiled in the Daily Cal.
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.
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.
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.
A startup by BioE alum Jon Tang wants your DNA.
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.
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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Congratulations to professors Amy Herr and Song Li, new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Check out BioE Ph.D. student Tim Downing explaining his research in this video from BMES 2013.
A new cellscope in education project, “Smartphone Becomes Microscope”, is one of six finalists chosen for the Accelerating Science Award Program.
Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher wrote a short opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal Friday, 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.