Alumna makes more news with ShrinkyDinks
March 2010
BioE Ph.D. Alumna Michella Khine received more recognition for her groundbreaking microfluidics research in Scientific American.
Student Mitra finalist for CIMIT Prize
February 24, 2010
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Debkishore Mitra and his team were selected as one of ten finalists for the 2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare.
Anti-medical school, pro health
February 1, 2010
Our unique Bioengineering graduate class, Anti-medical School, has been making the news with its innovative approach to health education.
Alumna Khine featured in Innovations
February 1, 2010
Bioengineering Ph.D. alumna Michelle Khine launched UC Merced’s first startup using a kids toy: Shrinky Dinks. Now an Assistant Professor at UC Irvine, Khine was featured in UC Berkeley’s Innovations newsletter, and around the globe, for her innovative use of kids thermoplastic craft toys to produce low-cost microfluidic devices.
BioE grad student selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
January 26, 2010
Bioengineering graduate student Chenlu Hou was selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany as a guest of Siemens AG. She was one of only three students chosen from the United States.
Future Scientists teach in Peru
January 2010
Bioengineering graduate students founded a new program called Future Scientists that provides technical education to resource-poor communities.
Lam’s photo in Olympus Bioscapes
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 at the frontlines of medicine.
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 Graduate Group.
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 for Quantitative Biomedical Research.
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, 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.