November 6, 2012 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Llewellyn “Trey” Jalbert talks about his experience with brain cancer – both as an imaging researcher and as a patient – in the November issue of Innovations from Berkeley Engineering.
BioEs win Deloitte QB3 Award for Innovation
October 24, 2012 By
October 23, 2012 – Aijun Wang and Zhenyu Tang, from UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Song Li’s lab, are the winners of the 2012 Deloitte QB3 Award for Innovation.
$3 million in new funding for kidney project
October 2, 2012 By
October 1, 2012 – UCSF professor and member of the graduate program Shuvo Roy is a key member of a bold multi-campus effort to create the first implantable artificial kidney.
2013 Siebel Scholars
October 1, 2012 By
September 2012 - The Siebel Foundation has announced the names of five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools. Each of the Class of 2013 Siebel Scholars will receive a $35,000 [...]
Scott awarded for ultrasound work
September 19, 2012 By
September 2012 – Bioengineering PhD student Serena Scott has won a New Investigator Award from the Society of Thermal Medicine for an abstract titled “Investigation of interstitial ultrasound for ablation of paraspinal and osteolytic spinal tumors.” She has also received a Mimics Innovation Award of 2500 euros and an opportunity to present at the Materialise [...]
Tentori receives Cancer Research Fellowship
September 19, 2012 By
September 2012 – BioE PhD student Augusto Tentori is the recipient of a UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Predoctoral Fellowship. The award provides financial support for a year of his dissertation research is UC Berkeley professor Amy Herr’s lab. Congratulations Augusto!
BioE student contributes columns to Genetic Engineering & Biotech News
September 19, 2012 By
September 2012 – Bioengineering PhD student Zachary Russ is an occasional contributor of Point of View columns to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Check out his latest, on embracing change in the world of research: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Etemadi wins CIMIT Award
September 7, 2012 By
BioE graduate student Mozzi Etemadi and his team have been awarded $110,000 to explore development of an enhanced bathroom scale to monitor the health of heart failure patients.
New Bioe master’s degree approved
September 7, 2012 By
August 10, 2012 - The new Master’s in Translational Medicine degree, joint between UCSF and UC Berkeley, has been approved by UC President Mark Yudof.
Full studies leaping lizards
September 7, 2012 By
August 2012 - UC Berkeley Integrative Biology Professor and member of the graduate program Bob Full studies the physical and biological underpinnings of animal movement.