Research from Boris Rubinsky, Professor Emeritus in Bioengineering and Professor of the Graduate School in Mechanical Engineering, is using wireless signals to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnoses of brain swelling or bleeding.
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Dueber named Outstanding Instructor
May 6, 2013 – Assistant Professor John Dueber was awarded the 2012-2013 Outstanding Instructor Award from the Bioengineering Honor Society. This honor is granted by undergraduate student vote to one instructor of a bioengineering course during the current academic year. Congratulations!
Keasling wins George Washington Carver Award
April 18, 2103 – Bioengineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been awarded the 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology.
Large-scale production of engineered malaria drug launches
April 11, 2013 – Twelve years after bioengineering and chemical engineering professor Jay Keasling learned how to engineer yeast to produce the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin, manufacturing plants are launching large-scale production of the medication.
Amy Herr, Mining the Proteome
April 3, 2013 – Check out an in-depth article on research by bioengineering professor Amy Herr, one of the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley. Herr is developing a microfluidic approach to protein assay, a way to quickly and efficiently analyze dozens of human proteins at a time.
Mofrad Lab models how cells interact with surroundings
March 21, 2013 – Cells interact constantly with their surroundings, but it’s very difficult to observe the main player in this interaction – a protein called integrin. Professor Mohammad Mofrad and bioengineering graduate student Mehrdad Mehrbod have developed a computer model of integrin that gives researchers a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell’s inner […]
Terry Johnson gets Distinguished Teaching Award
BioE Lecturer Terry Johnson has been awarded a 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award!
Video Interview – Sanjay Kumar talks research
March 5, 2013 – Associate Professor Sanjay Kumar, winner of the 2012 STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award, discusses his work on adult hippocampal neural stem cells in this video interview.
Fletcher 2013 AIMBE Fellow
February 20, 2013 – Congratulations to Professor Dan Fletcher, new member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!