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.
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 award for his or her final year of graduate studies. The 2013 UC Berkeley Siebel Scholars in Bioengineering are: Lukasz Bugaj, Laura Croft, Timothy Downing, Alex Hughes, and Debkishore Mitra.
These accomplished bioengineering graduate students will join a growing community of past and present Scholars that includes their peers from top business and computer science programs.
The top schools selected to participate in Bioengineering are:
* Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering
* Stanford University, School of Engineering and School of Medicine
* University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering
* University of California, San Diego, Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering
Read more about this year’s Siebel Scholars at the Siebel Foundation
About the Siebel Scholars Foundation
The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the
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 World Conference in Belgium for a poster titled “Interstitial Ultrasound Ablation of Paraspinal and Vertebral Tumors: Patient-Specific Simulations & Treatment Planning.” Scott works with Professor Chris Diederich of UCSF.
Congratulations Serena!
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:
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.