Bioengineering News
January 29, 2010 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the mission’s status.
January 27, 2010 Bioengineering researchers have received a $1 million grant from the Keck Foundation to pursue research on limb and organ regeneration.
January 27, 2010 A collaboration led by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Jay Keasling, and by bioengineering graduate student Eric Steen, has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
January 20, 2010 With a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these “DNA parts” in synthetic organisms to produce…
November 2010 Bioengineering undergraduate alumnus James Moon has been awarded the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award.
December 10, 2009 Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Tony Keaveny has been awarded the Van C. Mow Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
December 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has published his second Bioengineering text: Cellular Mechanotransduction: Diverse Perspectives from Molecules to Tissues.
November 2009 Bioengineering faculty sat down with the Dean of Engineering for a roundtable chat on the past, and future, of the Department and the field.
November 2009 Two bioengineering undergraduates, Nickesh Viswanathan and Anwesh Thakur, made it all the way to the quarterfinals of NBC-TV’s America’s Got Talent this summer, with their Berkeley Bollywood dance group, Ishaara.
November 2009 Research on point-of-care diagnostics by Dan Fletcher’s lab, as well as Fletcher’s own experiences in Washington DC, are featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.
October 12, 2009 Our new Berkeley Bioengineering Department Chair, Matthew Tirrell, is featured in this month’s Innovations email newsletter from the College of Engineering. Tirrell talks about his excitement at joining Berkeley and plans for the department.
October 5, 2009 Bioengineering Graduate Group Affliliate Michel Maharbiz and BioE grad student Daniel Cohen have pioneered a new technique to control gene expression in two dimensions over time, using a modified inkjet printer.
October 5, 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy was featured in the People and Ideas column of the October 5 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
September 30, 2009 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy and collaborators have identified a critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to restore the muscle’s ability to repair and rebuild itself, offering hope for future injury repair and anti-aging techniques.
September 28, 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in a New Yorker article, A Life Of It’s Own, this September. The article explored the origins and potential future of the field of synthetic biology. Read more at the New Yorker.
August 2009 The Department of Bioengineering would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. John Dueber.
August 2009 Bioengineering Lecturer Terry Johnson has been selected to participate in the 2009-2010 UC Berkeley Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program.
July 22, 2009 In a major publication in the latest issue of PLoS ONE, Berkeley Bioengineering researchers unveiled their revolutionary cell phone platform for remote fluorescent microscopy.
July 13, 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr is the recipient of a 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Herr was recognized for her proposal on “An Integrated Micro/Nanosystem for Rapid Validation of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Biomarkers”.
July 9, 2009 Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers by President Obama.
June 8, 2009 Assistant Professor of Bioenginering Amy Herr has been granted a 2009 awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund. Created by a generous gift from distinguished alumnus F. Warren Hellman, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund awards research grants to junior faculty who have shown a promise of great distinction.
May 22, 2009 Thomas Budinger, Professor and Founding Chair of UC Berkeley Bioengineering, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
May 20, 2009 Jay Keasling, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Acting Deputy Directory of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the first Biotech Humanitarian Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
May 2, 2009 A Berkeley Bioengineering student and faculty member have won Chancellor’s Public Service Awards this year, high honors for civic engagement sponsored by Cal Corps Public Service Center, the Office of Government and Community Relations, and University Events.
May 2009 Cutting edge Lab-on-a-Chip research from Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab was featured in the Spring 2009 issue of the Berkeley Science Review. The BSR is a completely student-run and -written publication featuring research at Berkeley. Read the full story at the Berkeley Science Review.