We love our alumni!
You're our ambassadors, our biggest fans, our greatest accomplishments, our hopes and our future. Keep in touch!
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Our annual alumni happy hour is a great place to catch up with old friends and meet new ones! Attend and collect a different faculty caricature magnet each year, and vote on the next one.
Stay in Contact
We send email newsletters to our alumni and friends 4-6 times per year. Don’t miss out on the good stuff! To make sure you're receiving announcements from the Department, please update your contact information with our form, or on @Cal or the Cal Alumni address update form.
Keep Coming Back
We love to see alumni! There are many opportunities to get involved:
- Sign up to join our list of student resume and grad school application reviewers,
- Participate in an online Career Chat with students interested in your field,
- Talk with students at an in-person career event,
- Attend one of our regular or special seminars,
- Represent your company at Bio-Tech Connect,
- Graduate alumni - show up at one of the events hosted by the MEng, MTM or PhD programs.
Watch our newsletters and social media for announcements.
Give to BioE
The generous support of our friends and alumni helps the department award scholarships & fellowships, renovate labs, fund enrichment events, bring exciting seminar speakers, and add so much more to life in BioE. Gifts in kind, stock, and bequests are all warmly received, please email bef@coe.berkeley.edu to learn more.
What's News With You?
Do you have some great news? Are you hiring? Just want to say Hi? Email us at bioeng@berkeley.edu
Have you seen the professor magnets?
Get the latest and vote on next year's at the next Alumni Bash!
News About: Alumni
Alumna startup Aluna acquired by Huma
Aluna, a company spun out of an undergraduate capstone project by alumna Charvi Shetty, has been acquired by Huma. Aluna developed an easy and fun remote monitoring system for respiratory diseases, which will now be able to reach patients in Huma’s more than 150 U.S. health systems, serving over 500,000 people.
Stanley Qi: “For many people, waiting is not an option”
PhD alumnus Stanley Qi, now a professor at Stanford University, is interviewed about his work developing advanced gene-editing tools to treat life-threatening diseases and slow the onset of neurological aging.
Equipad wins Collider Cup Alumni Expo Award
BioE-founded startup Equipad is on a mission to provide free, eco-friendly, accessible menstrual care in innovative roll format in restrooms everywhere. Recent BioE graduates Sanjana Gurram and Bryan Wong, with Master of Development Practice alumna Pooja Patel, have developed the materials and dispenser voted best alumni project at the Collider Cup.
Monica Kapil named SJSU Mechanical Engineering Alumna of the Year
Congratulations to BioE PhD alumna Monica Kapil, the first woman ever named Alumna of the Year by the SJSU Mechanical Engineering Department!
Congratulations NSF Fellows!
Congratulations to our new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are current PhD students Ashley Qin; incoming PhD students Erin Ahern and Steven Robles Blasini; graduating undergraduates Monica Mendoza, Safaa Mouline and Arvind Swamynathan; and undergraduate alumni Jacob Bryan, Emily Huynh, and Elaine Tong. Well done!
Pivot Bio is using microbial nitrogen to make agriculture more sustainable
Co-founded by BioE alumnus Karsten Temme, Pivot is bringing cleaner nitrogen to American farmland.
Di Carlo new Chair of UCLA Bioengineering
BS and PhD alumnus Dino Di Carlo has been named Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA.
ImpriMed: Providing Personalized Medicine For Pets With Blood Cancer Diseases
Pulse 2.0 interviewed MTM alumnus Sungwon Lim, founder of ImpriMed, a company that provides personalized medicine for pets with blood cancer diseases.
Alumnus Di Carlo will lead new UCLA Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cell research project
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has allocated a $4 million grant to support collaborative research by UCLA, USC and CalTech that will examine cellular behaviors, many of which play a key role in developing immunity to pathogens and disease. Dino Di Carlo, UCLA professor of bioengineering and UC Berkeley BS and PhD alumnus, will lead the team.
Tsuchida and Vasic in 30 Under 30
PhD alumni Connor Tsuchida and Ivana Vasic have both been named to the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list for their achievements in Healthcare! Tsuchida has founded Crispr delivery startup Azalea Therapeutics, and Vasic is developing therapies to support the next generation of in vitro fertilization as founder of Vitra Labs.