Bioengineering News
March 2008 Researchers in Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory have pioneered a new method for encapsulating proteins in cell-like lipid vesicles, according to a study published in the March 25, 2008 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement of living systems…
March 2008 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee has received a 2008 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant education activities.
January 16, 2008 Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
January 9, 2008 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, along with researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive treatments for disease, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
January 2008 Associate Professor of Bioengineering Dan Fletcher has been awarded $100,000 by Microsoft Research to turn the camera of a cell phone into a clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples remotely for evaluation by specialists. Microsoft Research is supporting academics from 10 universities around the world in their research of…
December 14, 2007 – Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
December 13, 2007 Lawrence Berkeley Lab has named Dr. Tom Budinger one of ten winners of the 2007 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for his research with Jonathan Maltz.
December 2007 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have discovered a technique that integrates microfluidic cell culture and lysis platform for automated cell analysis that improves on systems which require multiple reagents and manual procedures. Their article made the cover of the December 2007 Lab on a Chip journal.
December 2007 Dan Fletcher, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, has been appointed new Deputy Division Director in the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
November 19, 2007 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have discovered a technique that for the first time enables the detection of biomolecules’ dynamic reactions in a single living cell.
November 14, 2007 Jay Keasling, Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering andDirector of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Labs was mentioned in the Discover Magazine article The Six Most Important Experiments in the World.
November 2007 Department of Bioengineering Chair, Professor Dorian Liepmann, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
November 2007 Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Boris Rubinsky has been given the “ISC Award” from the International Society of Cryosurgery. The award was presented in November in Beijing at the 14th Wprld Congress of the International Society of Cryosurgery.
November 2007 Bioengineering undergrad Albert Mach received the Best Content award in today’s College of Engineering Undergraduate Fall Poster Session.
November 2007 At the annual International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) held last fall at MIT, UC Berkeley’s iGEM squad was named one of six finalists for the grand prize and won Best Poster for their demonstration showing how genetically modified E. coli bacteria might be converted into a cheap—and safe—blood substitute.
August 15, 2007 Technology Review Magazine has named bioengineering Assistant Professor J. Christopher Anderson among the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. Anderson was recognized for his designs for tumor-killing bacteria.
July 2007 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr was awarded a Regent’s Junior Faculty Fellowship this summer, a UC Berkeley award for outstanding junior faculty. Herr received the award for her research project, “Nanoreactor Arrays For Probing Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions”. Congratulations Amy!
June 2007Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been named Chief Executive Officer of the new Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a partnership of three national laboratories and three research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
June 2007 Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineers did well at the 8th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held June 15-17 at UC San Francisco. Bioengineering undergrad Amit Jain and graduate student Theresa Ulrich took the Best Poster award at the conference, while BioE undergrad Albert Mach took the 2nd place poster award for his work with graduate student…
May 2007 Bioengineering Professors Adam Arkin and Jay Keasling have been elected Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
May 2007 A paper by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee was chosen as one of the “Top 5 Hot Talks / Cool Papers” at the 2007 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held in San Francisco in April.
April 19, 2007 Bioengineering undergrad Albert Mach received the Best Verbal Presentation award in today’s College of Engineering Undergraduate Spring Poster Session.
February 12, 2007 A large animal study has given further support to bioengineering and mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky’s irreversible electroporation technique.
February 9, 2007 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was profiled in the February 9, 2007 issue of Science magazine.
February 1, 2007 – We are pleased to announce that a Berkeley-led partnership has been chosen to receive a $500 million grant from the energy firm BP to develop new, cleaner sources of fuel. The campus will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a 10-year effort, known…