Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee has created an artificial "nose" that sniffs out the explosive TNT with genetically engineered viruses. The eNose, which will probably first be used to protect soldiers and identify terrorists, is based on a technology that has a whole host of potential uses. In the consumer landscape, the eNose could offer sniff tests against allergens or help foodies match a meal with the perfect wine.
Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee has received a 2008 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.
Researchers in Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher's laboratory have pioneered a new method for encapsulating proteins in cell-like lipid vesicles, according to a study published in the March 25, 2008 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Berkeley and the Bay Area cemented their position as the nation's center of alternative energy research with the announcement today by the Department of Energy of a $125 million, five-year grant to Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), headed by Bioengineering Professor Jay Keasling.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering Dan Fletcher has been awarded $100,000 by Microsoft Research to turn the camera of a cell phone into a clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples remotely for evaluation by specialists. Microsoft Research is supporting academics from 10 universities around the world in their research of innovative ways to advance healthcare services and solutions, as well as mitigate the growing healthcare concerns.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, along with researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive treatments for disease, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
Dan Fletcher, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, has been appointed new Deputy Division Director in the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical Engineering and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Douglas Clark, with colleagues from Berkeley, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Solidus Biosciences, Inc. has developed a new biochip to provide, among other uses, rapid analysis necessary to insure that the chemicals in cosmetics are non-toxic to humans. Within the next 5 to 10 years, assuming the cost of sequencing all of a person’s genes becomes generally affordable, people will be able to use the chip to prescreen all drugs before they’re administered to determine safe and effective doses.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Irina Conboy has been awarded a $2.25 million research grant from theCalifornia Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
Lawrence Berkeley Lab has named Dr. Tom Budinger one of ten winners of the 2007 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for his research with Jonathan Maltz. The pair came up with a non-invasive way to detect the early signals of possible cardiovascular disease. Their technique involves tracking the time it takes the imaging pulse to travel to the main artery.
Bioengineering Ph.D. alumna Michelle Khine, currently Assistant Professor of Engineering at UC Merced, has pioneered a creative way to make microfluidic patterns using Shrinky-Dinks - the shrinking plastic craft toys of the 1970's.
Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee's lab have discovered a technique that integrates microfluidic cell culture and lysis platform for automated cell analysis that improves on systems which require multiple reagents and manual procedures. Their article made the cover of the December 2007 Lab on a Chip journal.
Bioengineering graduate student Erik Douglas is featured in the October 22 Chemical & Engineering News for his work teaching chemistry in the College Program at San Quentin Prison. Read more in C&EN.
Bioengineering graduate student Erik Douglas used a new technique for precisely positioning cells for study in a microscopic chemistry "lab-on-a-chip" to spell out "Cal" for the cover of the November 2007 Lab on a Chip.
Luke Lee pioneers molecular imaging in single cells
Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee's lab have discovered a technique that for the first time enables the detection of biomolecules' dynamic reactions in a single living cell.
Liepmann elected AIMBE Fellow
Department of Bioengineering Chair, Professor Dorian Liepmann, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Boris Rubinsky has been given the "ISC Award" from the International Society of Cryosurgery. The award was presented in November in Beijing at the 14th Wprld Congress of the International Society of Cryosurgery.
Neuroscientists, including UC Berkeley Professor of Vision Science and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Ralph Freeman, have for the first time measured the electrical activity of nerve cells and correlated it to changes in blood flow in response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive method to stimulate neurons in the brain.
Technology Review Magazine has named bioengineering Assistant Professor J. Christopher Anderson among the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. Anderson was recognized for his designs for tumor-killing bacteria.
R&D Magazine recognized Bioengineering Ph.D. alumnus Shyam Patel’s work on nerve grafts in their list of the Top 25 Micro/Nano Technologies of 2007. Patel has developed nerve graft materials composed of aligned, nanoscale polymer fibers that act as physical guides for regenerating nerve fibers. These nanofibers become bioactive by attaching various biochemicals directly onto the surface of the nanofibers. Patel’s work was done in BioE Associate Professor Song Li’s lab.
Bioengineering graduate student in Professor Rich Mathies' lab made the news in Florida this month, testing out a mobile DNA analysis device developed in their lab.
Bioengineering graduate students Rich Cohen, Sapun Parekh, Azucena Rodriguez, and Mike Rosenbluth, all from Associate Professor Dan Fletcher's lab, traveled to the Dominican Republic this summer to explore the use of Needle-free jet injectors for immunizations. Their trip was funded mainly through the Berkeley Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS ). Read all about the trip on their blog!
Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineers did well at the 8th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held June 15-17 at UC San Francisco. Bioengineering undergrad Amit Jain and graduate student Theresa Ulrich took the Best Poster award at the conference, while BioE undergrad Albert Mach took the 2nd place poster award for his work with graduate student Tanner Nevill.
Keasling heads new BioEnergy Institute
June 2007 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been named Chief Executive Officer of the new Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a partnership of three national laboratories and three research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A paper by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee was chosen as one of the "Top 5 Hot Talks / Cool Papers" at the 2007 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held in San Francisco in April.
BioE Graduate Group member Frank Szoka has received the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award from the UCSF Graduate Students' Association and Graduate Division Alumni Association.
We are pleased to announce that a Berkeley-led partnership has been chosen to receive a $500 million grant from the energy firm BP to develop new, cleaner sources of fuel.
A large animal study has given further support to bioengineering and mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky's irreversible electroporation technique.
Two bioengineering graduate students and Professor Dan Fletcher have published new research on actin networks in the science journal Nature.
In Memory of Dean Newton
We are deeply saddened that UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean A. Richard Newton passed away January 2, 2007, from pancreatic cancer. Newton was a visionary leader, a dynamic force for change and growth in the college, a pioneer in integrated circuit design, and a staunch friend of the Bioengineering Department. He is greatly missed.
Bioenginering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured on the Dr. Dean Edell segment on ABC-7 news, discussing his project to affordably synthesize a malaria drug using synthetic biology. Watch the broadcast at ABC News (Windows Media Player required).
BioE and EECS teams were the winners of this year's Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition, an annual event sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in the November/December issue of California, the UC Berkeley alumni association magazine.
Berkeley Bioengineering Professors Jay Keasling and Luke Lee were among the 12 local scientist featured in a "Freaking Brilliant" article in the November issue of San Francisco magazine. Also featured in the article were members of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Hami Kazerooni and Chris Voigt.
Michelle Khine, who received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering here in 2005, is now an Assistant Professor in the new College of Engineering faculty at UC Merced.
Frank Szoka, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF and member of the Graduate Group in Bioengineering, has helped may a breakthrough that may detoxify cancer drugs.
Dr. Dick Karp, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Mathematics, and Industrial Engineering was quoted in the New York Times today on the future impact of computing.
When stretched, a type of adult stem cell taken from bone marrow can be nudged towards becoming the type of tissue found in blood vessels, according to a new study by bioengineers from Bioengineering Professor Song Li's tissue engineering lab at UC Berkeley.
The findings, published today in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlight the importance of mechanical forces in stem cell differentiation.
Bioengineering graduate students Craig Hashi and Yiqian Zhu were the winners in the Graduate Category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Craig Hashi is a member of Bioengineering Professor Song Li's tissue engineering lab, and Yiqian Zhu works under supervision of Professors William Young and Guo-Yuan Yang at The Center for Cerebrovascular Research at UC San Francisco.
A research team including Bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher has created a the first model for studying how breast tissue is shaped and structured during development.
Researchers including Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee have created a ruler of gold nanoparticles and DNA which can measure tiny protein-DNA interactions.
A study by neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and neurosurgeons and neurologists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) is beginning to explain the mystery of how distant regions of the brain are linked together to coordinate complex activity.
Christopher Voigt, UCSF Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, has been named one of the 2006 Technology Review 35.
UCSF Professor of Physiology and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Tejal Desai won first prize for her innovative research on oral drug delivery from Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical company, and the Controlled Release Society (CRS).
Tejal Desai, UC San Francisco Professor of Physiology and member and alumna of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, was one of two faculty to receive funding through the 2006 Rogers Bridging the Gap Award.
Ian Holmes' work on applying theories about grammar and syntax to the genetic data emerging from DNA sequencing efforts is featured in the September 2006 issue of Lab Notes.
Bioengineering Professor Song Li and graduate student Craig Hashi are featured in the September 1 edition of Engineering News, describing nanografts, their tissue engineered blood vessel grafts.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $16 million grant to establish SynBERC, the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, headed by Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling.
Incoming Bioengineering graduate student Javad Golji is a participant in this year's Mongol Rally , an 8,000-mile charity race from London to Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
Bioengineering professor Luke Lee tells the story of his youth as a recent Korean immigrant in Colorado in a story in the Colorado Springs Gazette this month.
Voigt named Pew Scholar Christopher Voigt, UCSF professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, has been named one of 15 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences for 2006. The program honors the nation’s most promising early-to-midcareer biomedical researchers.
Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and colleagues have determined the life cycle of operons, small groups of genes with related functions that are co-transcribed in a single strand of messenger RNA.
Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, appeared on a panel discussion today on CNN's Future Summit special feature.
A team from bioengineering professor Song Li's lab won first place in the 2006 Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea) Competition -- a national competition celebrating student biomedical innovation.
Dr. Theodore E. Cohn, Professor of Bioengineering and Vision Science, passed away on May 25 at Alta Bates Hospital in Oakland following a three-year battle with lymphoma. He was 64.
Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and his wife Debra Safer are the proud new parents of a baby girl. Zoe Alexa Safer Arkin was born at 12:42pm, May 16, 2006.
Dr. Tom Budinger, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and UCSF Professor of Radiology, was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Engineering this June.
UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and member of the graduate group Ruzena Bajcsy is working on technology that will allow people to interact remotely in a 3-dimensional cyberspace.
Bioengineering Graduate Group member and UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Richard Mathies and BioE graduate student Robert Blazej have developed the smallest ever DNA sequencing device, only 10cm in diameter. The handheld sequencer needs just one femtomole of DNA and only a tiny amount of expensive chemical reagents to combine three main DNA sequencing steps: thermal cycling, sample purification and capillary eletrophoresis. The research was is the cover story for the May 9, 2006 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bioengineering and Materials Science Professor Kevin Healy spoke today as part of the CITRIS Friday Research Exchange, describing his research on Controlling Stem Cell Fate Via Bio-mimetic Polymers. Video of the lecture is archived online at CITRIS.
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and his lab group have cleared another hurdle in their quest for an economical way to synthesize malaria drugs.
Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received a
2006 Beckman Young Investigators Award from the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation.
We are pleased to announce the much-anticipated publication of a new book by one of our own! Ethics of Emerging Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges, by Dr.'s Thomas and Miriam Budinger, is a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical issues presented by modern technologies.
Graduate group member and Chair of the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department Jasmina Vujic is the first woman to chair a US university's nuclear department.
New findings show that brain scans may be able to predict neurological decline in still-healthy adults, according to graduate group member and UC Berkeley neuroscientist William Jagust.
Research by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group was featured in a San Francisco Chronicle special series on innovations in technology, business and science.
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay
Keasling and collaborators have developed a technique to guide the
evolution of certain proteins toward a desired outcome.
A study by William Jagust, UC Berkeley Professor of Public Health and Neuroscience and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, may have found early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Steve Conolly, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, was selected to deliver one of the Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectures for Young Engineers at the 2006 meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in Irvine, California.
Viruses can be forced to evolve in ways beneficial to humans, according to new research by David Schaffer, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group.
Bioengineering researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab have succeeded in using single strands of synthetic DNA to
firmly fasten biological cells to non-biological surfaces. This
technique has multiple potential applications including biosensors,
drug-screening technologies, the growing of artificial tissues and the
design of neural networks.
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor
Jay Keasling traveled to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World
Economic Forum January 25-29. Amyris Bioechnologies, co-founded by
Keasling, was one of 36 start-up companies chosen as technology
visionaries - companies whose products could change the world.
California this week became the first state to declare secondhand smoke a toxic air pollutant. The decision by the California Air Resources Board relied on research showing that exposure to secondhand smoke sharply increases the risk of breast cancer in young women, and links smoke to other diseases such as asthma and heart disease.
UCSF professor and member of the graduate group Stanton Glantz reviewed the science behind the decision.
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor
Jay Keasling's work in synthetic biology is featured in a New York
Times article on the emerging field.
Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher's laboratory have
gained new insight into how cells move and grow. Dr. Daniel Fletcher,
bioengineering graduate students Sapun Parekh and Ovijit Chaudhuri, and
Julie Theriot of Stanford University published their findings in the
Dec. 2005 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
UC Berkeley students competed in the 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, competition. Nine teams fielded by universities and colleges from San Francisco to Zurich spent their summers engineering bacteria to accomplish a specific task using modified DNA components called BioBricks.
Two bioengineering teams were finalists in the 2005 Center for
Entrepreneurship & Technology’s 2005 Technology Breakthrough
Competition, while s team from BioE and ChemE professor Jay Keasling's lab took home the grand prize.
A review article by bioengineering Associate Professor Luke Lee was featured on the cover of the journal Science
today. The featured image is of an artifical compound eye created in
Lee's lab at UC Berkeley, inspired by compound eyes found in nature and microfabricated in three dimensions in polymer resin.
Richard Mathies, UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, has completed groundbreaking research on the chemistry of vision.
Our newest bioengineering professor, Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee, just received one of the first-ever Nano 50 Awards from Nanotech Briefs journal. This award recognizes the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology.
Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is one of four researchers across the country to be selected as a principal investigator for the new "cyber-enabled chemistry" grants from the National Science Foundation.
Bioengineering graduate students from Professor Luke Lee's research group garnered a collection of high-profile honors at the Ninth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS), held in Boston from October 9th to 13th.
Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Kevin Healy are featured in this month's Lab Notes, research news from the College of Engineering. The article profiles their collaboration with David Schaffer of chemical engineering to develop injectable materials for delivering stem cells to the body. They plan to use the stem-cell seeded hydrogel to protect and direct stem cell growth in damaged areas. Read the full story in Lab Notes.
Joshua Shaevitz, Miller Research Fellow in Integrated Biology and
member of Professor Dan Fletcher's laboratory, is lead author on a
paper describing the twirly way Spiroplasma bacteria get around.
A review article co-authored by bioengineering professor Irina Conboy was published in the September 8, 2005 issue of Cell, one of the most respected journals of biology.
A new study co-authored by Bioengineering Graduate Group member and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Mark D'Esposito sheds light on memory loss in older adults.
Humans have the ability to locate and track odors, much like dogs, according to a recent study by Noam Sobel, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Psychology and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Adam Arkin and David Schaffer,
assistant Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering
Graduate Group, reported on a novel strategy for taming HIV infections
on July 29 in the journal Cell.
Congratulations to Dr. Budinger! His team just won the Bronze Medal for the Men's 8 category at the 2005 USRowing Southwest Regional Masters Championships. The race took place at Lake Merritt on July 10. Way to row Dr. B!
Dr. Irina Conboy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Faculty Research Fund for the Biological Sciences. The funds will go to support her research project, establishing a Dedicated Mouse Colony for Testing the Regenerative Capacity of hES Cells in vivo.
Even more commencement photos have been uploaded to a Kodak EasyShare gallery. You can use this site to view and print photos. Congratulations graduates!
Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received an award from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund in support of his research, "Some assembly required: Rebuilding the actin motility machinery".
Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Professor Lisa Pruitt is
leading the effort to lengthen the lifespans of replacement joints.
BioE Grad Students Fight Invasive Species
Bioengineering Ph.D. students Nate Beyor, Erik Douglas and Stephanie
Yeung, along with Julien Decot of the Haas School of Business, have
teamed up to work on a solution to shipping industry proliferation of
marine invasive species.
Bioengineering Professor Dr. Boris Rubinsky contributed research and
background on cryogenics for the April 19 episode of the NOVA Science
NOW tv show.
April 2005
Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee was awarded a $75,000 research grant from National Academies Keck Futures Initiative today, for his research topic "Quantum Nanoplasmonic Probes for In Vivo Molecular Imaging".
S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
April 2005
Our Bioengineering graduate program has been named one of the top
ten Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering schools in the country by the 2006 US News and World Report "America's Best Graduate Schools" review. This ranking is up three places from last year's.
Tony Keaveny and Lisa Pruitt, professors of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, have both been awarded the Chancellor's Professorship. This is a special multi-year award created to fund research and scholarship, and to recognize "distinguished achievement of the highest level in research, teaching and service".
Congratulations to Associate Professor Luke Lee! Dr. Lee was awarded the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering this month. The Professorship was given to our department five years ago by Jack Lloyd, Chair of the Bioengineering Department's Industrial Advisory Board. The chair is awarded to a junior faculty member in our department, and was last held by current Department Chair Dorian Liepmann.
Smart search technology being developed by Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin and research partner Professor Marti Hearst is featured in the February 2005 issue of Lab Notes, a publication of the College of Engineering. Hearst and Arkin are working on a software project called BioText, designed to help researchers search online medical journal articles more thoroughly and efficiently.
The Department of Bioengineering would like to extend a warm welcome to three new faculty members, Steve Conolly, Irina Conboy, and Mohammad Mofrad. Professors Conolly and Conboy came to Berkeley in the fall, while Profressor Mofrad is just arriving on campus now.
Bioengineering professor Kimmen Sjölander is featured in a four-page interview in the latest issue of Forefront magazine, a publication of the College of Engineering. The article, "Kimmen Sjölander: Computational Artist Extraordinaire", explores Dr. Sjölander's stories of life, work and creativity.
Professor Jay Keasling is featured in an article in the New York Times for his work on developing a more affordable cure for malaria, research that is being supported by a recent $43 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Research done by Dr. Jay Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and soon to be part of the department of Bioengineering, has pioneered a method of producing the most effective anti-malarial drug at low cost for the developing world.
The Center for Tissue Bioengineering at the Richmond Field Station received a visit from 53 high school girls and this December. Hosted by Professor Karen King, the young women participated in a tour, research demonstrations and a lively question and answer session at the Richmond Field Station CTBe facility.
Bioengineering professor Kevin Healy participated in a press conference Monday announcing UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau's appointment to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee. The committee is charged with overseeing the implementation of California's new $3 billion stem cell research effort.
Bioengineering professor Song Li was featured in the November 17, 2004 issue of the World Journal, the largest Chinese newspaper in North America. Those who read mandarin can read the full story in pdf.
Bioengineering professor Kimmen Sjölander
was among five UC Berkeley researchers to receive the 2003 Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest
award for scientists at the early stages of their careers.
The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Prof. Lisa Pruitt for
receiving the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
Move over, Bionic Man, and make room for BLEEX -- the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton -- with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider.
Research by Bioengineering Graduate Group Professor Homayoon Kazerooni was featured in the March 11, 2004 issue of Wired News and on the Associated Press wire.
Prof. Dick Karp, Ph.D., University Professor of Computer Science,
Bioengineering and Mathematics recently received the 2004 Benjamin
Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in recognition for his
remarkable contributions to the understanding of computational
complexity.
It's with great sadness that we say goodbye to one of our bioengineering family member Professor Werner Goldsmith. Goldsmith, Professor of the Graduate School-Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of the Graduate School-Department of Bioengineering and recently Professor Emeritus Appointment in Bioengineering died Saturday, August 23, 2003 of complications from leukemia.
