November 2009 Dr. Wilbur Lam, Bioengineering Ph.D. alumnus and postdoc in the Fletcher Lab, received an honorable mention in the 2009 Olympus Bioscapes International Digital Imaging Competition.
Berkeley Bioengineers selected as Siebel Scholars
September 16, 2009 The Siebel Foundation yesterday announced five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars. This is the first year the Foundation has expanded the Scholars program to recognize and engage outstanding graduate students in the field of bioengineering.
Alumna Khine TR35 Young Innovator
September 2009 UC Irvine professor, and BioE Ph.D. alumna, Michelle Khine was featured as a 2009 Young Innovator in the Tech Review 35.
Henrickson takes 3rd in CIMIT Prize
June 24, 2009 Bioengineering graduate student Rick Henrickson has taken 3rd prize in the Center for Integrations of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Prize for Primary Healthcare. The Prize is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students for technologic innovations with the greatest potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare […]
Congratulations new graduate Fellows
June 2009 Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded prestigious fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other prestigious external fellowships.
Bioengineers win with Big Ideas
May 2009 Several Bioengineering students won prizes again in this year’s UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries competition.
Bioengineering in the News BioE Grads make nanoscale drug delivery
May 2009 Bioengineering graduate students Lily Peng, Kayte Fischer and Adam Mendelsohn were featured in the College of Engineering Innovations magazine for their work on a a tiny implantable device capable of delivering steady and minute quantities of medication into the bloodstream.
Bioengineer wins Business Plan
May 1, 2009 Bioengineering graduate student Kelly Karns won first prize with her team in the 11th annual Berkeley Business Plan competition, held at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Fletcher and alumni win Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project
April 17, 2009 Bioengineering Associate Professor Dan Fletcher and his CellScope team were winners of a Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project prize this year, competing against over 100 other teams nationwide.
2009 Outstanding GSI awards
April 2009 Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across campus are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates. The Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor.
BioE Grad Team Wins Big…Twice!
October 14, 2008 Three Bioengineering PhD students, Adam Mendelsohn, Lily Peng and Kayte Fisher, and UC Berkeley 2008 MBA candidate Stephen Dugan, took home the 1st prize at the 2008 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition this May.
BioE Alumna Receives NIH New Innovator Award
September 22, 2008 BioE Alumna Karen Christman, an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, is one of two UC San Diego faculty who received an National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award. She joined the UCSD faculty in 2007 after earning a Ph.D in bioengineering from the UC Berkeley / UCSF […]
BioE Grad Student Tyson Kim on KGO News
August 26, 2008 Graduate student Tyson Kim of the UCSF Pacific Vascular Research lab was featured on KGO news for the co-creation of a double photon microscope used to study the brain tissue of mice in the hopes of finding new treatments for heart disease.
BioE Alum wins International X-Ray Award
July 21, 2008 At last week’s tri-annual International X-Ray Microscopy meeting in Zurich, Bioengineering Alumnus Dr. Anne Sakdinawat was co-recipient of the prestigious Werner Meyer-Ilse Award for excellence in X-ray microscopy.
Mathies Appointed Dean of College of Chemistry
July 18, 2008 Richard Mathies, Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, was selected as Dean of the College of Chemistry this summer. Mathies takes the Chemistry post previously held on an interim basis by Clayton Heathcock, emeritus professor of organic chemistry and chief scientific director of QB3, the three-campus California Institute […]
Grad Student Nevill Creating Microfluidic Masterpieces
July 2008 Bioengineering Graduate Student Tanner Nevill is using microfluidic chips normally used for things like laser printing and biomedical research to create tiny works of art.
BioE Alumnus Patel featured in Innovations
June 2008 Shyam Patel (Ph.D. 2007 BioE) has been developing a synthetic graft intended to guide neurons across gaps and restore lost connections in nerves serving limbs and other parts of the peripheral nervous system.
Student Breslauer wins GREAT Fellowship
May 19, 2008 BioE Graduate Student David Breslauer was among eleven graduate students from eight University of California campuses selected to receive a $50,000 GREAT training grant, intended to hasten innovations in a variety of biotechnology-related fields. David was chosen based on his work developing biologically inspired microfluidic spider silk spinning for high performance biomaterials, […]
BioE student Fisher receives CRS Outstanding Oral Drug Delivery Award
April 2008 BioE Ph.D student Kayte Fisher was selected to receive the 2007 Controlled Release Society Outstanding Oral Drug Delivery Award for her paper Silicon Nanowires for Improved Intestinal Bioadhesion.
2008 Outstanding GSI awards
April 2008 Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across campus are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates. The Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor.
BioE’s win in Big Ideas contests
April 28, 2008 Bioengineers did well again this year in the annual Bears Breaking Boundaries innovation contests, taking prizes in at least four of the nine campus or multi-campus contests.
BioE grads makes microfluidics from shrinky-dinks
December 2007 Bioengineering Ph.D. alumna Michelle Khine, currently Assistant Professor of Engineering at UC Merced, has pioneered a creative way to make microfluidic patterns using Shrinky-Dinks – the shrinking plastic craft toys of the 1970’s.
Parada Imaging wins Business Plan Contest
November 5, 2007 Bioengineering team Parada Imaging won first place in the 2007 Berkeley Business Plan Competition.
BioE grad links cells with spirit
November 2007 Bioengineering graduate student Erik Douglas used a new technique for precisely positioning cells for study in a microscopic chemistry “lab-on-a-chip” to spell out “Cal” for the cover of the November 2007Lab on a Chip.