December 1, 2006
Bioengineering alumna Tejal Desai is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Young Leader from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.Desai earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Group in Bioengineering in 1998, and has recently returned to the group as an Associate Professor at UC San Francisco. This is only the latest move in a distinguished early career, which includes being named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10 Scientists”, one of MIT Technology Review’s “100 Top Young Innovators,” and receiving an NSF CAREER Award and a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Engineering Award. As a graduate student at Berkeley she developed a micro-chip (now in production by a private company) that can be implanted in the pancreas of a patient to facilitate insulin production and control diabetes.
Congratulations Tejal!
Read the full story in Engineering News .