Sarah Nelson, UCSF Professor of radiology and co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, has led a team of researchers who developed a new imaging technology to noninvasively image prostate tumors.
Tekla Labs sponsors “Build My Lab” contest
Tekla Labs, a non-profit founded by BioE graduate students and postdocs, are sponsoring the Build My Lab Contest, a DIY lab equipment design competition along with Instructables.
Alumni Steen and Dietrich in Wired magazine
PhD alumni Eric Steen (’10) and Jeff Dietrich (’11) are featured in “Synthetic Biology 2.0” in Wired magazine online. The article discusses their startup company Lygos and the the up-and-coming garage garage industry of synthetic biology. Read the full article at Wired.
Five students named 2014 Siebel Scholars
The Siebel Foundation has announced the names of five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars.
Kassianidou wins HHMI Fellowship
August 14, 2013 – BioE graduate student Elena Kassianidou has been awarded an International Predoctoral Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Natividad-Diaz wins 2nd for Innovation in Primary Healthcare
July 12, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz has won second place in the Prize for Primary Healthcare, a CIMIT – Ambulatory Practice of the Future competition.
The Biological Basis of SPD in Kids
July 9, 2013 – Ph.D. alumna Julia Owen (2011) and UCSF faculty member Pratik Mukherjee have published breakthrough research showing that Sensory Processing Disorders in children have a biological basis.
Read the Summer 2013 BioE Graduate Newsletter
The Summer 2013 newsletter of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering is out! Read up on our students faculty and alumni in our latest newsletter.
Alumni Profile: Karen Christman
An interview with Karen Christman (Ph.D. 2003), Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, member of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and Co-founder of biotech company Ventrix, Inc.
Big BEAR – Steering students to graduate school success
At a time when debate rages about whether graduate school is smart choice—while some talk about tuition costs and others about job markets—Big BEAR at Berkeley is helping fellow students find their right choice. Ask Ph.D. student Eric Jabart for the most important factor for graduate school success, and he won’t tell you hard work, […]
LegoScope at Maker Faire
Congratulations to the LegoScope team, winners of the Educators Choice award at Maker Faire 2013! The LegoScope crew tested out the classic LegoScope, OpenScope and cheaper ComponentScope with regular slides as well as a number of live samples like zebrafish, C. elegans, fruit fly maggots, planaria worms, and sea anemones. They made contact with local teachers, […]
Congratulations Outstanding GSIs
May 20, 2013 – Congratulations to Anum Azam, Tim Downing, Zach Russ, and Augusto Tentori, 2012-2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors at UC Berkeley. These GSIs were nominated by their instructor for excellent teaching and mentoring as GSIs in a bioengineering class. Congratulations!
Berke wins literary prize
April 19, 2013 – Congratulations to Allison Berke, a winner of the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize in Literary Composition at UC Berkeley. The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prizes in Literary Composition are awarded for excellence of composition in poetry, story writing, drama, or another field of literary composition.
Congratulations 2013 NSF Fellows
Congratulations to our SEVEN new NSF fellows in bioengineering! The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program has awarded prestigious fellowships to seven Berkeley-UCSF graduate students: Daniel Hensley, Kesshi Jordan, Isaac Joseph, Preeya Khanna, Harrison Liu, Ryan Orendorff, and Julea Vlassakis.
Connie Cheung leads 3rd place team in Idea to IPO
April 12, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Connie Cheung was the team leader for the third-place team in this year’s UCSF Idea to IPO course.
Daniel Cohen wins the 2013 Cubicciotti Award
March 27, 2013 – BioE graduate student Daniel Cohen has been awarded the 2013 Daniel Cubicciotti Award by the San Francisco section of the Electrochemical Society.
BioE grad students in startup Foundry
Several bioengineering graduate students are among the six student teams selected this February to work with experts at the Foundry@CITRIS to push their innovative technology ideas to market.
Alum Tsou profiled in Daily Cal
January 22, 2013 – Very recent BioE alumna An-Chi Tsou was profiled in the Daily Cal about her new job at the California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.
LegoScope on ABC news
January 18, 2013 – The LegoScope – a simple microscope based upon the CellScope developed in Fletcher Lab and built with Legos – was featured on ABC7 news on Thursday, January 17.
Kelly Karns named Kauffman Fellow
January 14, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Kelly Karns has been awarded a coveted Kauffman Fellowship, one of only thirty offered each year.
Etemadi wins Dow Student Challenge
November 15, 2012 – BioE graduate student Mozzi Etemadi, along post-doc Kayvan Keshari, has won the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award. Davis Li, a former BioE undergrad, was also involved in the project.
Jalbert’s research featured in Berkeley Innovations
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 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 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.