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.
$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.
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.
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.
Multiple faculty get $2mil for flexible bioelectronics systems
August 24, 2012 By
August 23, 2012 – Several members of the graduate program have been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop flexible bioelectronics systems to advance medical care.
Nelson Lab and Ph.D. student in Science
January 13, 2012 By
January 11, 2012 – Bioengineering Graduate Group member Professor Sarah Nelson’s lab has new research out on the cover of Science Translational Medicine today.
Full’s leaping lizards in the news
January 4, 2012 By
January 4, 2012 – Graduate program faculty and UC Berkeley Professor Bob Full is in the news with his discoveries on how lizards and dinosaurs can inspire robot design. Read more and watch a video at the UC Berkeley News Center.
Synthetic biologists produce CAD tools for RNA
December 23, 2011 By
December 22, 2011 – Synthetic biology researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have developed computer assisted design (CAD)-type models and simulations for RNA molecules that make it possible to engineer biological components.