Eight bioengineering students have been selected to participate in the 2016 Biodesign Immersion Experience. Created by Professor Amy Herr and funded by grant from the NIH, the BIE is an 8-week summer program that prepares bioengineers to connect engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs. Students have either recently taken or will be taking BioE 192, the senior […]
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BioE startup Zephyrus acquired by Bio-techne
Zephyrus Biosciences, a startup company spun out of professor Amy Herr’s lab, was acquired today by Bio-techne, a top biosciences tools company. Zephyrus was led by BioE PhD Kelly Gardner and pioneered commercialization of Herr Lab’s single-cell western blotting technique, which they will continue as part of the Protein Platforms Division of Bio-Techne.
Dueber Lab runner-up for Breakthrough of the Year!
A breakthrough from John Dueber’s lab, led by BioE PhD William DeLoache, was a runner-up for Science magazine’s 2015 Breakthrough of the Year! They were recognized for creating an engineered yeast that can convert sugar into the makings of opioid painkillers.
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.
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.
Conolly Lab achieves new MPI milestone
BioE PhD Bo Zheng and other researchers in Professor Steven Conolly’s lab have demonstrated that Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) enables monitoring of cellular grafts with high contrast, sensitivity, and quantitativeness in vivo. They report the first MPI cell tracking study, showing in vivo monitoring of human neural graft clearance in the rat brain, this week in Nature.
Kumar and Murthy create hydrogel for fast cell culture studies
Bioengineering professors Sanjay Kumar and Niren Murthy have collaborated to develop a new materials technology that allows them to simultaneously create many cell culture environments with defined material properties for high-throughput analysis.
Healy’s brown fat research in Daily Cal
Check out more on the Bioengineering/Nutritional Sciences research collaboration to implant energy-burning brown fat into mice to stimulate weight loss, featuring Professor Kevin Healy.
Yartsev receives BRAIN EAGER grant
Assistant Professor Michael Yartsev has received an NSF EAGER grant for funding of his research project, “BRAIN EAGER: Going All Wireless to Establish Bats as The First Mammalian Model System for Vocal Learning.”