August 14, 2013 – BioE graduate student Elena Kassianidou has been awarded an International Predoctoral Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
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Natividad-Diaz wins 2nd for Innovation in Primary Healthcare
July 12, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz has won second place in the Prize for Primary Healthcare, a CIMIT – Ambulatory Practice of the Future competition.
MTM project featured on medGadget
April 5, 2013 – Research by one of our Master of Translational Medicine program research teams is published in JoVE and featured on medGadget — “New Vascular Catheter Remote Controlled Using MRI”. The project involves a new system that uses the magnetic field of an intraoperative MRI to move a catheter through blood vessels with high […]
CellScope gets $1 million in venture funds
The CellScope, a cellphone-based microscope platform developed in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab and now a startup company, has received $1 million in startup funding from Khosla Ventures.
Tekla Labs Develops Do-It-Yourself Equipment for Underfunded Labs
April 4, 2012 – Berkeley’s Lina Nilsson, a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Daniel Fletcher’s lab, is the mastermind behind a group that helps underfunded labs create research-grade equipment without breaking the bank.
Two BioEs in 30 under 30!
December 19, 2011 – Congratulations to Bioengineering Ph.D. student Mozziyar Etemadi and undergraduate alumnus Albert Mach, both named in this year’s Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list.
Bioengineering – A Family Affair
May 4, 2010 Bushra Samad will be receiving her B.S. in Bioengineering from Berkeley this month, but she’s not leaving. Bushra will be staying on as a Ph.D. student in the Bioengineering Graduate Group – and her twin daughters will be entering their second year as Berkeley undergrads. Her daughter Tahoura is also a Bioengineering […]
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.