Bioengineering News
April 26, 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has received a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance to fund the new Bioengineering Capstone Design course, BioE 192.
April 20, 2009 Matthew Tirrell, incoming Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and current Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tirrell is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of…
April 16, 2009 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee will receive the 2009 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Award for Excellence in Biomedical Technology in Memoriam of William J. Morlock.
April 12, 2009 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has received a scholar award from the Siebel Stem Cell Institute, a joint venture between UC Berkeley and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
April 7, 2009 In yet another high profile win, the CellScope project has won one of four prizes in the international Intel Inspire-Empower Competition.
April 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor David Schaffer talks about stems cell research and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Watch it on YouTube.
March 31, 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been appointed Acting Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Adjunct Bioengineering Professor Paul Adams has been appointed Acting Director of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division.
March 30, 2009 Bioengineering junior Madhvi Venkatesh has been awarded a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She is one of only two UC Berkeley winners for this nationally competitive scholarship this year.
March 28, 2009 An article by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been declared one of the “Hot Articles of 2008” by Lab On A Chip journal.
March 18, 2009 Jay Keasling, Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Agents of Change.
March 16, 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling is becoming a fixture on YouTube! In addition to his appearance last week on The Colbert Report, he can also be found on YouTube discussing antimalarial drug research in a video produced by California Connected, an award-winning PBS news magazine.
March 11, 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling made a guest appearance on the Colbert Report, a popular Comedy Central news magazine television show last night.
February 25, 2009 Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is the recipient of a 2008-2009 Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Research Grant Program.
February 17, 2009 Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering David Schaffer, along with researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Iowa, have turned a relatively benign virus into a highly infectious form that is ideal as a carrier for gene therapy.
January 24, 2009 The Department of Bioengineering enthusiastically welcomes our newest faculty member, Professor Gerard Marriott.
January 22, 2009 Research by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee that may someday help regenerate injured spinal cords was featured in MIT’s Technology Review this week.
January 15, 2009 – The Department of Bioengineering is very pleased to welcome our new Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Matthew Tirrell!
December 20, 2008 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in Newsweek as a “Person to Watch”. The article focuses on his synthetic biology work building molecular tools to turn common ingredients into medical artemisinin and to make malaria drugs affordable and accessible.
December 15, 2008 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor David Schaffer has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
December 12, 2008 Bioengineering faculty Steve Conolly and David Schaffer have both been awarded grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to create new tools to speed the translation of basic stem cell research into clinical therapies. Twenty three grants were announced this week to 18 institutions by the state’s stem cell agency,…
December 2008 Bioengineering Professor Gerard Marriott’s work on FRET technology earned him a place as a “Top Innovator of 2008” in The Scientist for his winning combination of invention, vision and utility.
November 20, 2008 Bioengineering undergrads Rina Parmeshwar and Michelle Su-Yu Tsai took two of the top prizes at the Science and Engineering Poster Session last month. Held in the Hearst Mining Memorial Building lobby, the Science and Engineering Poster Session offers the opportunity for students in engineering or the sciences at Berkeley to present their…
November 12, 2008 Two Berkeley teams headed to the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) in Boston this year, along with over 100 other participants from twenty one countries. Both mentored by BioE Assistant Professor Chris Anderson, the tools team took the Best Software Tool Award, while the “Wet Team” was one of 6 finalists…
November 5, 2008 BioE and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling’s joint proteomics study has uncovered a protein link that may help fight tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Keasling and collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered proteins residing in the immune system and the self-cleaning system by which cells rid themselves of unwanted parts…
October 10, 2008 Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin was involved in the genome sequencing analysis of the first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species, discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa.