Bioengineering Adjunct Professor Paul Adams has been name Division Director for the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
faculty
Herr receives 2016 AES Mid-Career Achievement Award
Professor Amy Herr is the 2016 recipient of the Mid-Career Achievement Award from the American Electrophoresis Society!
Head-Gordon, Lee new AIMBE Fellows
Congratulations to professors Teresa Head-Gordon and Seung-Wuk Lee, new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
Amy Herr named to Cornell visiting professorship
Professor Amy Herr has been named the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering at Cornell University for Fall 2015 through Spring 2018.
Zheng, Conolly, Schaffer achieve first in vivo magnetic particle imaging
Professor Steven Conolly’s lab is the first in the world to achieve cell tracking in vivo by magnetic particle imaging.
Fletcher named a Leading Global Thinker of 2015
Professor Dan Fletcher, Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, has been named one of the top 100 global thinkers of 2015 by Foreign Policy magazine. Fletcher was selected as a top Innovator for designing a diagnostic microscope on a cell phone platform.
Seung-Wuk Lee gets another R&D 100
Bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee has been honored with his second R&D 100 Award, this year for his development of color-changing biosensors, assembled from benign viruses, that can detect volatile chemicals.
Mofrad lab learns more about the nuclear pore complex
Professor Mohammad Mofrad’s lab has uncovered new clues to how the nuclear pore complex acts as a gatekeeper to the nucleus, allowing some molecules to enter and exit while keeping other molecules out.
BioE leads new UC Tissue Regeneration Resource Center
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded a grant to establish the University of California Tissue Regeneration Resource Center, a partnership between UCSF, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. Bioengineeing professor Kevin Healy is co-director of the center.