UCSF Medical Center has been named among the nation’s premier medical institutions for the 15th consecutive year, ranking as the seventh best hospital in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-2017 Best Hospitals survey.
Maharbiz and Carmena create implantable neural dust
Messersmith lab featured on CBS news
Adam Arkin on Big Data and Big Problems
Thoughts from Professor Adam Arkin, UC Berkeley, leading scholar in systems and synthetic biology. The world situation There are a number of large global problems facing humanity today. Possibly the largest is food. By 2050 or 2060 we expect to have 9 billion people on the planet, and by some estimates to feed those people […]
Four Bioengineers receive UCSF Merit Fellowships
Congratulations to four of our bioengineering students who have been awarded UCSF merit fellowships for 2016-17. Jeremy Bancroft Brown and Jean Kim have received the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship, a competitive scholarship that rewards excellence in research. Jinny Sun has received a Genentech Fellowship, a competitive predoctoral fellowship to support eligible students in their biomedical research, […]
DeRisi Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Joseph L. DeRisi, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Program, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Tentori receives Ford Fellowship
Recent BioE PhD Augusto Tentori has been awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship for postdoctoral study. Only 21 scholars in the country were granted postdoctoral fellowships this year. Tentori received his Ph.D. in 2015 for work in Professor Amy Herr’s lab, and is now a researcher at MIT.
Three-peat! Yu takes first prize at AAPM
BioE PhD student Elaine Yu, of Professor Steven Conolly’s lab, took first prize at the 2016 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Young Investigators Symposium, held in Palo Alto on May 20. This is the third year in a row Conolly Lab has taken first place at the conference, join in 2014 and 2015 by students […]
Majumdar awarded ISMRM Gold Medal
Sharmila Majumdar, bioengineering graduate program faculty and Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF has been awarded the 2016 Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for her innovative contributions to the development of quantitative imaging methods.
Alumnus Di Carlo wins PECASE
BioE alumnus Dino Di Carlo, now a professor at UCLA, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The award was presented at the White House on May 5, 2016.
Congratulations NDSEG Fellows
Congratulations to BioE PhD students Tanner Dixon, Courtney Mazur, and Andrew Ng, , awarded 2016 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). NDSEG selections are made by the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and […]
2016 Departmental Fellows
Congratulations to our 2016 recipients of departmental fellowships! Donor-funded fellowships are an important vehicle for supporting our outstanding students. Independent funding allows them to work on pioneering research not yet funded by faculty grants, and to pursue their interests and passions. Our heartfelt thanks to the generous donors who have endowed these fellowships!
Congratulations to 12 new NSF Fellows!
Prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to seven continuing and five incoming Berkeley-UCSF graduate students!
Full and Keasling new AAAS members
Professors Robert Full and Jay Keasling, both of UC Berkeley, have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2016.
Lindsey Osimiri is new Soros Fellow
Congratulations to BioE PhD student Lindsey Osimiri, named a 2016 Soros Fellow! The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a prestigious honor recognizing the contributions and promise of young people who are recent additions to the ranks of Americans.
Bolt Threads SXSW interview
Check out this great interview with PhD alum and Bolt Threads founder David Breslauer at SXSW!
Jenelle Feather receives DOE CSGF
Jenelle Feather, a first year PhD student in BioE, was selected for the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF), an award for students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.
Bidens tour UCSF Bioengineering laboratories
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden, PhD, visited UCSF as part of the National Cancer Moonshot initiative. They toured the UCSF Center for Advanced Technology, where they met with graduate program faculty Zev Gartner, associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Wendell Lim, professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology.
BioE moves up to #6 in the US!
New rankings from US News & World Report placed our bioengineering graduate program tied for 6th best in the nation, up from 7th for the past two years.
Desai featured in Bay Area Women in Science show
Tejal Desai was featured in a special KQED-TV segment on Bay Area women in STEM, explaining bioengineering, nanotechnology, and careers in science. Tejal is Chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and an alumna of our own bioengineering graduate program.
Tejal Desai featured on CBS News
BioE alum and UCSF professor Tejal Desai was featured on the evening news for her lab’s work to create a tiny implantable nanostructures that will monitor blood sugar and secrete and dispense insulin for diabetics.
Ke Xu named Sloan Research Fellow
Ke Xu, UC Berkeley Chevron Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Sloan Research Fellow. The fellowships honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and the next generation of scientific leaders.
Faculty Perspective: Valerie Weaver on Cancer and Collaboration
A conversation with Professor Valerie Weaver, UCSF Professor of Surgery, about work in her highly collaborative cancer research lab. What is the main focus of your lab? We do a lot of work on cancer, mostly breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, and glioblastoma. There is another part of my lab that does stem cell work, primarily […]
Di Carlo receives Materials Research Society’s Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Bioengineering alumnus Dino Di Carlo, (B.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2006), has been named the 2016 Outstanding Young Investigator by the Materials Research Society. He is currently a professor in the department of bioengineering at UCLA. His award winning research, Microstructured Materials for Cell Analysis and Regeneration, will be presented at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit on Thursday, March 31 at UCLA.