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, under the sponsorship of Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee.
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.
Grad student teaches chemistry in prison
November 2007
Bioengineering graduate student Erik Douglas is featured in the October 22 Chemical & Engineering News for his work teaching chemistry in the College Program at San Quentin Prison. Read more in C&EN.
BioE grad students fight crime in Florida
July 11, 2007
Bioengineering graduate student in Professor Rich Mathies’ lab made the news in Florida this month, testing out a mobile DNA analysis device developed in their lab.
Needle free injections in Dominican Republic
July 2007
Bioengineering graduate students Rich Cohen, Sapun Parekh, Azucena Rodriguez, and Mike Rosenbluth, all from Associate Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab, traveled to the Dominican Republic this summer to explore the use of Needle-free jet injectors for immunizations. Their trip was funded mainly through the Berkeley Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS ).
Read all about the trip on their blog!
Alum Patel gets R&D Micro/Nano Top 25
July 2007
R&D Magazine recognized Bioengineering Ph.D. alumnus Shyam Patel’s work on nerve grafts in their list of the Top 25 Micro/Nano Technologies of 2007.
Bioengineers take Best Poster in UC
June 2007
Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineers did well at the 8th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held June 15-17 at UC San Francisco. Bioengineering undergrad Amit Jain and graduate student Theresa Ulrich took the Best Poster award at the conference, while BioE undergrad Albert Mach took the 2nd place poster award for his work with graduate student Tanner Nevill.
BioE wins Third at BMEidea
June 2007
Congratulations to recent Bioengineering Ph.D. recipient Shyam Patel, who won 3rd place in BMEidea this year!
Khine in Genome Technology
May 2007
Our own Bioengineering alumna Michelle Khine is on the cover of this month’s edition of Genome Technology Magazine.
Bioengineers win big in Big Ideas
May 2007
Bioengineering teams won first, second or third place in FIVE out of the ten 2007 UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries contests.
BioE Grad Students storm life sciences contest
April 21, 2007
Graduate students of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group won top places in this year’s UCSF Global Life Science Innovation Competition.
Tejal Desai Outstanding Alumni Award
December 1, 2006
Bioengineering alumna Tejal Desai is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Young Leader from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
BioE wins Technology Breakthrough Competition
November 24, 2006
BioE and EECS teams were the winners of this year’s Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition, an annual event sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Alumna is new Merced faculty
November 10, 2006
Michelle Khine, who received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering here in 2005, is now an Assistant Professor in the new College of Engineering faculty at UC Merced.
Li Lab wins Collegiate Inventors Competition
October 23, 2006
Bioengineering graduate students Craig Hashi and Yiqian Zhu were the winners in the Graduate Category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Craig Hashi is a member of Bioengineering Professor Song Li’s tissue engineering lab, and Yiqian Zhu works under supervision of Professors William Young and Guo-Yuan Yang at The Center for Cerebrovascular Research at UC San Francisco.
BioE Grad Student in Mongol Rally
August 2, 2006
Incoming Bioengineering graduate student Javad Golji is a participant in this year’s Mongol Rally, an 8,000-mile charity race from London to Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
Sarah Nelson Heads UCSF QB3
June 19, 2006
Sarah Nelson, UCSF Professor of Radiology and UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering, has been chosen as the new Scientific Directory of QB3 – UCSF.
Li Lab wins BMEidea!
June 7, 2006
A team from bioengineering professor Song Li’s lab won first place in the 2006 Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea) Competition — a national competition celebrating student biomedical innovation.
Congratulations NSF Fellows
May 2006
Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Berkeley researchers attach cells to chips with DNA
February 2006
Bioengineering researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have succeeded in using single strands of synthetic DNA to firmly fasten biological cells to non-biological surfaces. This technique has multiple potential applications including biosensors, drug-screening technologies, the growing of artificial tissues and the design of neural networks.