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.
2013 Siebel Scholars
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.