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!

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Arkin Lab adds predictability to genetic engineering of microbial circuits

October 8, 2012 – For synthetic biology to reach its promise, the design and construction of biological systems must be as predictable as the assembly of computer hardware. An important step has been taken by bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and a team of researchers, who have developed an “adaptor” that makes the genetic engineering of…

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Keasling wins Heinz Award

UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering and chemical & biomolecular engineering has been awarded one of four $250,000 Heinz Awards for 2012, for his work in engineering a synthetic form of the malaria drug artemisinin. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle

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Bioengineers get NIH award for tissue chip

July 24, 2012 – Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee and collaborators have been awarded a two-year, $1.7 million boost to develop on-chip models of living human heart and liver tissue from the NIH.

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Li shows stem cells behind hardened arteries

June 6, 2012 – Bioengineering Professor Song Li has shown that a previously unknown type of stem cell, not smooth muscle cells within blood vessel walls, is to blame for artery-hardening diseases such as atherosclerosis.

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