May 20, 2009 - Jay Keasling, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Acting Deputy Directory of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the first Biotech Humanitarian Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
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April 21, 2009 - Research by UCSF Professor and Bioengineering Graduate Group member Chris Voigt was featured on Reuters this week for advances toward more environmentally friendly gasoline.
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June 24, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Rick Henrickson has taken 3rd prize in the Center for Integrations of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Prize for Primary Healthcare.
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June 8, 2009 - Assistant Professor of Bioenginering Amy Herr has been granted a 2009 awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund. Created by a generous gift from distinguished alumnus F. Warren Hellman, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund awards research grants to junior faculty who have shown a promise of great distinction.
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June 2009 -Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded prestigious fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other prestigious external fellowships.
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May 22, 2009 - Thomas Budinger, Professor and Founding Chair of UC Berkeley Bioengineering, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
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May 1, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Kelly Karns won first prize with her team in the 11th annual Berkeley Business Plan competition, held at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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May 2009 - Bioengineering graduate students Lily Peng, Kayte Fischer and Adam Mendelsohn were featured in the College of Engineering Innovations magazine for their work on a a tiny implantable device capable of delivering steady and minute quantities of medication into the bloodstream.
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April 2009Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across campus are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates.
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April 20, 2009 - Matthew Tirrell, incoming Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and current Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tirrell is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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April 16, 2009 - Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee will receive the 2009 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society  Award for Excellence in Biomedical Technology in Memoriam of William J. Morlock.
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April 17, 2009 - Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher and his CellScope team were winners of a Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project prize this year, competing against over 100 other teams nationwide.
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April 12, 2009 - Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has received a scholar award from the Siebel Stem Cell Institute, a joint venture between UC Berkeley and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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April 7, 2009 - In yet another high profile win, the CellScope project has won one of four prizes in the international Intel Inspire-Empower Competition.
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April, 6 2009 Bioengineering Professor Tejal Desai’s nanotechnology breakthrough at UCSF Mission Bay was featured on ABC 7 news. Her team made the news for creating a nano-porous bio-capsule that is revolutionizing diabetes research!
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April 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor David Schaffer talks about stems cell research and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
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March 31, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling has been appointed Acting Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Adjunct Bioengineering Professor Paul Adams has been appointed Acting Director of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division.
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March 18, 2009 - Jay Keasling, Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Agents of Change.Jay made the list of 40 "people reinventing America" for his advances in synthetic biology, engineering microbes to produce cheap malaria drugs and working to synthesize biofuels. Also on the list were other visionaries like Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bill Gates, and President Barack Obama. Read the full list at Rolling Stone. Way to...
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March 16, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling is becoming a fixture on YouTube! In addition to his appearance last week on The Colbert Report, he can also be found on YouTube discussing antimalarial drug research in a video produced by California Connected, an award-winning PBS news magazine.
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March 11, 2009 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling made a guest appearance on the Colbert Report, a popular Comedy Central news magazine television show last night. Keasling, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Insitute and Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, was invited to the show to discuss his research efforts to engineer microbes that can produce biofuels. Jay has become a famous proponent of synthetic biology, the technique of...
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March 2009UCSF Professor and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Tejal Desai was featured on PBS Kids Real Scientists.
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February 25, 2009Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is the recipient of a 2008-2009 Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Research Grant Program.
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February 18, 2009 Bioengineering Graduate Group member and UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Ruzena Bajcsy has been honored with a Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science by the Franklin Institute.
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February 17, 2009 Jose Carmena, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, was honored with a Sloan Fellowship for early career scientists.
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February 17, 2009 - Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering David Schaffer, along with researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Iowa, have turned a relatively benign virus into a highly infectious form that is ideal as a carrier for gene therapy.
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January 22, 2009 - Research by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee that may someday help regenerate injured spinal cords was featured in MIT's Technology Review this week.
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The Department of Bioengineering enthusiastically welcomes our newest faculty member, Professor Gerard Marriott.
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January 8, 2009 Professor of Bioengineering Tejal Desai was named an Emerging Scholar of 2009 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, for devising an artificial pancreas prototype which produces insulin for diabetic patients.
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December 12, 2008 - Bioengineering faculty Steve Conolly and David Schaffer have both been awarded grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to create new tools to speed the translation of basic stem cell research into clinical therapies.
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December 18, 2008 - UC Berkeley Professors Martin Banks and Steven Brenner, members of the UC Berkeley/ UCSF Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, were named 2008 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society.
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