September 2012 – The Siebel Foundation has announced the names of five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools. Each of the Class of 2013 Siebel Scholars will receive a $35,000 […]
Scott awarded for ultrasound work
September 2012 – Bioengineering PhD student Serena Scott has won a New Investigator Award from the Society of Thermal Medicine for an abstract titled “Investigation of interstitial ultrasound for ablation of paraspinal and osteolytic spinal tumors.” She has also received a Mimics Innovation Award of 2500 euros and an opportunity to present at the Materialise […]
Tentori receives Cancer Research Fellowship
September 2012 – BioE PhD student Augusto Tentori is the recipient of a UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Predoctoral Fellowship. The award provides financial support for a year of his dissertation research is UC Berkeley professor Amy Herr’s lab. Congratulations Augusto!
BioE student contributes columns to Genetic Engineering & Biotech News
September 2012 – Bioengineering PhD student Zachary Russ is an occasional contributor of Point of View columns to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Check out his latest, on embracing change in the world of research: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Etemadi wins CIMIT Award
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.
New Bioe master’s degree approved
August 10, 2012 – The new Master’s in Translational Medicine degree, joint between UCSF and UC Berkeley, has been approved by UC President Mark Yudof.
Full studies leaping lizards
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 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.
Three faculty named new Bakar Fellows
Bioengineering Graduate Program members Jose Carmena, Amy Herr, and Michel Maharbiz have been named to the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley.
Four BioE Graduate Students Win UCSF Fellowship Award
BioE graduate students Trey Jalbert, Lawrence Uricchio, Bertram Koelsch and Julea Vlassakis are 2012 – 2013 recipients of the UCSF Graduate Division Fellowship Award.
Professor Nelson Wins 2012 UCSF GSA Faculty Mentor Award
UCSF Bioengineering Professor Sarah Nelson has been awarded the 2012 UCSF Graduate Student Association Faculty Mentor Award for her outstanding contributions to the Bioengineering Graduate Department.
Alum Dennis Discher elected to National Academy of Engineering
Bioengineering Ph.D. alumnus Dennis Discher (1993), currently the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, was recently elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Congratulations outstanding GSIs!
April 2012 – Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across UC Berkeley are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates.
2012 NSF Fellowships
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program has awarded prestigious fellowships to six Berkeley-UCSF graduate students. Congratulations to Matthew Bakalar, Katie Fink, Daniel Liu, Jennifer Soto, Joanna Rys and Matthew Rubashkin, our six new inductees into the NSF program.
Future Scientist Program in Sustainable Design: Panama
Future Scientist, a non-profit organization started by several Bioengineering grad students, returned from the first Program in Sustainable Design in Panama.
Tejal Desai receives Dawson Biotechnology Award
Tejal Desai, UCSF Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and Chair of the Bioengineering Graduate Program, has been awarded the 2012 Paul R. Dawson Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
BioE Graduate Program Ranked in Top 10!
US News and World Report has named the UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering one of the TOP TEN graduate programs in the US.
Alumnus Di Carlo receives Navy Young Investigator Award
March 2012 – Bioengineering Ph.D. and B.S. alumnus Dino Di Carlo, now a bioengineering assistant professor at UCLA, has won the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Office of the Navy.
Nelson Lab and Ph.D. student in Science
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 – 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 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.
FIVE graduate faculty 2012 AIMBE Fellows
December 20, 2011 – Congratulations to UCSF Professors Tejal Desai and David Saloner, and Berkeley Professors Adam Arkin, Luke Lee and Lisa Pruitt, all new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
Two BioEs in 30 under 30!
December 19, 2011 Congratulations to Bioengineering Ph.D. student Mozziyar Etemadi and undergraduate alumnus Albert Mach, both named in this year’s Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list.
Alumna Khine named to Women on Top Awards
November 18, 2011 – UC Irvine Associate Professor and graduate program alumna Michelle Khine has been named a “Top Scientist” in the 2011 Women on Top Awards by Marie Claire Magazine, in the November 2011 issue.