BioEs win big in Big Ideas

May 3, 2011 Bioengineering students won big in this year’s Big Ideas @ Berkeley competition. UC Berkeley’s annual “Big Ideas” prize competition inspires innovative and high-impact student projects aimed at solving the world’s most pressing problems. Both teams sharing the first place prize in the Social Entrepreneurship category include Bioengineering students, as well as the…

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Healy wins Clemson Award

April 15, 2011  Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering Professor Kevin Healy was awarded the 2011 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials. 

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Herr and Kumar Receive NSF CAREER Awards

February 14, 2011  Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professors Amy Herr and Sanjay Kumar have received 2011 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant educational activities.

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Conolly and Schaffer reap more CIRM awards

February 9, 2011   Bioengineering Professors Steve Conolly and David Schaffer were awarded renewals for their Tools & Techniques grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Their grants were the only ones of this type from UC Berkeley renewed in this round.

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Herr named Lilly Young Investigator

January 4, 2011 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been chosen to receive a 2010 Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry.

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Two BioE Alums are NIH New Innovators

September 30, 2010 Two Bioengineering Ph.D. alumni have received NIH Director’s New Innovator awards for 2010!Dino DiCarlo, PhD 2006, and Michelle Khine, PhD 2005, have both received this five-year, $1.5 million grant. The New Innovator Award is the largest and most prestigious grant awarded to junior investigators by the NIH, designed to enable recipients to…

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BioE Flies High in NRC Rankings!

September 29, 2010 The UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering ranked near the very top of the nation’s doctoral programs in Bioengineering, according to a detailed survey by the National Research Council.

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