Bioengineering students and faculty are featured at the launch of the Rosenman Institute for medical technology development.
Tiny Sheep: UC Berkeley Researchers Use Electricity to Herd Cells
By using electric currents, bioengineering graduate student Daniel Cohen and graduate faculty member Michel Maharbiz are studying how epithelial cells respond to electric fields and move in unison, to potentially aid wound healing.
Researchers target brain circuitry to treat mental disorders
Bioengineering graduate program faculty are among the researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF who will be working to develop devices to be implanted in the brain to target and correct malfunctioning neural circuits. Graduate prorgram faculty involved include Jose Carmena, Robert Knight, and Michel Maharbiz at UC Berkeley and Edward Chang at UCSF.
UCSF team develops early-warning system for preterm labor
A UCSF team including recent PhD Mozzi Etemadi was featured in the SF Chronicle for their Smart Diaphragm to detect preterm labor. This research was also a Master of Translational Medicine program project in 2010-11.
Scientists ‘herd’ cells in new approach to tissue engineering
Researchers led by recent BioE PhD Daniel Cohen and Professor Michel Maharbiz found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, an achievement that could establish the basis for more controlled forms of tissue engineering.
Chemical temporarily restores sight in blind mice
UC Berkeley professor Richard Kramer and his colleagues have restored sight to blind mice using a small molecule called DENAQ, which, as a photoswitch chemical, changes conformation in response to light.
Mofrad shows how Staph bacteria adhere to nanostructures
Professor Mohammad Mofrad and his lab have investigated, for the first time, how individual Staphylococcus Aureus cells glom onto metallic nanostructures of various shapes and sizes. Their research could guide the development of bacteria-resistant materials.
MTM and PhD team gets $2.7mil to reduce premature births
A team led by bioengineering Master of Translational Medicine and PhD students, along with UCSF bioengineering and medical faculty and staff, has received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $2.7 million over three years for a collaborative project aimed at reducing premature births.
Maharbiz develops smart bandages to track wound healing
Gallant featured in Nature
Neuroscientist Jack Gallant was featured in the latest edition of the journal Nature, discussing his team’s work on creating algorithms to decode brain scans and decipher what people are seeing, hearing and feeling.
Michelle Chang’s work touted in Science
A new synthetic biology technique could revolutionize medicinal chemistry by enabling site-selective insertion of fluorine into natural products in vivo. Read more (subscription required) at Science.
Nelson leads team to new prostate cancer monitoring method
Sarah Nelson, UCSF Professor of radiology and co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, has led a team of researchers who developed a new imaging technology to noninvasively image prostate tumors.
The Biological Basis of SPD in Kids
July 9, 2013 – Ph.D. alumna Julia Owen (2011) and UCSF faculty member Pratik Mukherjee have published breakthrough research showing that Sensory Processing Disorders in children have a biological basis.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
Nelson Lab and Ph.D. student in Science
January 11, 2012 – Bioengineering Graduate Group member Professor Sarah Nelson’s lab has new research out on the cover of Science Translational Medicine today.
Full’s leaping lizards in the news
January 4, 2012 – Graduate program faculty and UC Berkeley Professor Bob Full is in the news with his discoveries on how lizards and dinosaurs can inspire robot design. Read more and watch a video at the UC Berkeley News Center.
Synthetic biologists produce CAD tools for RNA
December 22, 2011 – Synthetic biology researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have developed computer assisted design (CAD)-type models and simulations for RNA molecules that make it possible to engineer biological components.