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
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.
Two alumni innovations named to Time 2023 Best Inventions
Two PhD alumni have innovations named to the Time Magazine 200 Best Inventions of 2023 list. The Cala kIQ, developed by Cala Health, founded by alumna Kate Rosenbluth, is a wearable device that assists patients with Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s. Proven 40 OS is a fertilizer using naturally occurring microbes to reduce emissions and pollution while producing higher crop yields – developed by Pivot Bio, founded by alumnus Karsten Temme.
Aluna named Tech for Global Good Laureate
BioE startup Aluna, founded by alumna Charvi Shetty, has been named a 2023-24 Tech for Global Good Laureate, one of four venures recognized for using technology to significantly advance health equity and improve lives. Aluna makes hardware and software that helps people with breathing problems.
Wilbur Lam named to National Academy of Medicine
PhD alumnus Wilbur Lam, now Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Tech, has been named one of the 2023 new members of the National Academy of Medicine. Lam was recognized for “outstanding contributions in point-of-care, home-based, and/or smartphone-enabled diagnostics that are changing the management of pediatric and hematologic diseases as well as development of microsystems technologies as research-enabling platforms to investigate blood biophysics. He also leads national/NIH efforts to assess diagnostic tests (including those for COVID-19) for the entire country.”
Bolt Threads going public
Bolt Threads, a company co-founded by BioE PhD alumnus David Breslauer, plans to go public in a SPAC deal that values the one-time unicorn at $250 million. Bolt Threads uses synthetic biology and other techniques to sustainably produce engineered biomaterials, including synthetic spider silk and mushroom-based faux leather.
Vlassakis receives NIH New Innovator Award
PhD alumna Julea Vlassakis, now Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, has been named a 2023 NIH Director’s New Innovator! These prestigious awards support early-career investigators with ambitious, unconventional project proposals demonstrating broad impact potential.