Posts Tagged ‘alumni’
Congratulations new NSF Fellows!
Congratulations to FIFTEEN new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are: current PhD students: Deniz Akpinaroglu, Joana Cabrera, Joy Chen, Benjamin Lesch, Alvince Pongos, Caleb Rux, Gabriel Sturm, and Jazmin Velazquez; incoming PhD students Maple Chen, Russell Ro and Esther Sim; graduating undergrads Joyce Chen and Carolina Rios-Martinez;
Read MoreGlyphic Biotechnologies wins Qiagen Biotech Grant
Glyphic Biotechnologies, founded by BioE alumnus Joshua Young Yang, is one of three winners of QIAGEN’s new Biotech Grants program. Glyphic is developing a first-of-its-kind, next-generation sequencing platform for proteins.
Read MoreKhine Named Inaugural Samueli Scholar
BioE alumna Michelle Khine, biomedical engineering professor and associate dean for the Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Irvine, has been named one of six inaugural Samueli Scholars by the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute.
Read MoreMTM alum named to 2022 30 Under 30
Master of Translational Medicine alumnus Steve Lee has been named to the Forbes 2022 30 Under 30 list in the social impact category! Steve and his brother Daniel founded Aura, an app that offers wellness and mental health coaching and resources.
Read MoreThe greener route to indigo blue
Alumna Tammy Hsu is finding a way to produce fabric dye with a lower environmental impact – feature article in Nature online.
Read MoreBest Inventions of 2021: Huue
Alumnus Nathaniel Huebsch named CMBE Young Innovator
Congratulations Nathanial Huebsch, BS BioE 2003, now Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Huebsch has been named a 2021 Young Innovator by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering!
Read MoreCannabis researchers seek to unlock the healing power of pot
Alumni-founded company Lygos is featured in the Wall Street Journal for their efforts to produce targeted cannabinoid compounds through synthetic biology.
Read MoreAlumna Tammy Hsu named to Tech Review 35
Tammy Hsu, founder of synthetic biology startup Huue, has been named to the MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 list for 2021 for developing an environmentally friendly process to create indigo dye using microbes. Tammy is a 2019 PhD graduate from Professor John Dueber’s lab.
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