February 2, 2010 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has received a 2010 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant education activities.
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Fletcher talks cell motion on video
February 2010 Bioengineer Associate Professor Dan Fletcher works to understand, on a cellular level, the physiology of movement within the human body. Check out his research, and it’s relation to the Olympics and our own movement, in this National Science Foundation video.
Lee Lab develops cancer-targeting nanoprobes
January 29, 2010 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s lab have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the mission’s status.
Bioengineers receive Keck Grant for regeneration
January 27, 2010 Bioengineering researchers have received a $1 million grant from the Keck Foundation to pursue research on limb and organ regeneration.
Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass
January 27, 2010 A collaboration led by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Jay Keasling, and by bioengineering graduate student Eric Steen, has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
Bioengineers launch first open-source genetic parts production facility
January 20, 2010 With a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these “DNA parts” in synthetic organisms to produce […]
Keaveny gets Mow Medal
December 10, 2009 Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Tony Keaveny has been awarded the Van C. Mow Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mofrad publishes new BioE Text
December 2009 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has published his second Bioengineering text: Cellular Mechanotransduction: Diverse Perspectives from Molecules to Tissues.
Charting the future of Bioengineering
November 2009 Bioengineering faculty sat down with the Dean of Engineering for a roundtable chat on the past, and future, of the Department and the field.