Bioengineering News
October 2005 Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Kevin Healy are featured in this month’s Lab Notes, research news from the College of Engineering. The article profiles their collaboration with David Schaffer of chemical engineering to develop injectable materials for delivering stem cells to the body. They plan to use the stem-cell seeded hydrogel to protect…
October 2005 Bioengineering graduate students from Professor Luke Lee’s research group garnered a collection of high-profile honors at the Ninth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS), held in Boston from October 9th to 13th.
September 23, 2005 Joshua Shaevitz, Miller Research Fellow in Integrated Biology and member of Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory, is lead author on a paper describing the twirly way Spiroplasma bacteria get around.
September 8, 2005 A review article co-authored by bioengineering professor Irina Conboy was published in the September 8, 2005 issue of Cell, one of the most respected journals of biology.
September 2005 Senior ME major Allison Deppe spent the summer doing research with bioengineering professor Mohammad Mofrad through the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program. Now she’s off to the 2005 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) fall meeting to present the results of her research.
September 2005 Dr. Thomas Budinger was recently elected President of the Society of Molecular Imaging.
August 2005 Dr. Stanley Berger, Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed to the Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair in Engineering.
July 29, 2005 Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Adam Arkin and David Schaffer, assistant Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, reported on a novel strategy for taming HIV infections on July 29 in the journal Cell.
July 2005 Congratulations to Dr. Budinger! His team just won the Bronze Medal for the Men’s 8 category at the 2005 USRowing Southwest Regional Masters Championships. The race took place at Lake Merritt on July 10. Way to row Dr. B!
June 2005 Dr. Irina Conboy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Faculty Research Fund for the Biological Sciences. The funds will go to support her research project,establishing a Dedicated Mouse Colony for Testing the Regenerative Capacity of hES Cells in vivo.
June 2005 Dr. Mohammad Mofrad, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a Regent’s Junior Faculty Fellowship for the summer of 2005.
May 2005 Menzies Chen, Bioengineering alumnus and researcher in the Fletcher Lab, has been awarded one of five UC Berkeley Sustainability Awards.
May 2005 Local biotech company Plexxikon hosted eleven Berkeley students on May 5 for a full tour, lecture on drug development, and visits with company executives. The students are all participants in the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program or the QB3 Undergraduate Research Biotech Internship Program.
May 2005 Bioengineering professor Irina Conboy has just been selected as a Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging.
May 2005 Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received an award from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund in support of his research, “Some assembly required: Rebuilding the actin motility machinery”.
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April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee was awarded a $75,000 research grant from National Academies Keck Futures Initiative today, for his research topic “Quantum Nanoplasmonic Probes for In Vivo Molecular Imaging”.
April 2005 Marcio von Muhlen’s poster, A Piezoelectric Microjet for Drug Delivery won second place in the Spring 2005 Undergraduate Science and Engineering Poster Session today.
April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Dr. Boris Rubinsky contributed research and background on cryogenics for the April 19 episode of the NOVA Science NOW tv show.
April 2005 Bioengineering professor Jay Keasling has been appointed the new Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
April 5, 2005 – S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
March 16, 2005 Three undergraduate researchers in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab – Menzies Chen, Laleh Jalilian and Marcio von Mulen – have been noticed by the media for their research on a needle-less microjet injector.
March 2005 Congratulations to Associate Professor Luke Lee! Dr. Lee was awarded the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering this month. The Professorship was given to our department five years ago by Jack Lloyd, Chair of the Bioengineering Department’s Industrial Advisory Board. The chair is awarded to a junior faculty member…
March 2005 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates BioE senior Hedi Razavi, selected to receive the 2005 Departmental Citation Award in Bioengineering.
February 2005 Smart search technology being developed by Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin and research partner Professor Marti Hearst is featured in the February 2005 issue of Lab Notes, a publication of the College of Engineering. Hearst and Arkin are working on a software project called BioText, designed to help researchers search online medical journal articles…