Bioengineering

Wei Gao and his sensor wristband, and Sergey Levine

Seven Berkeley engineers named top innovators under 35

08/23/16 — Wei Gao, an EECS postdoc developing wearable sweat sensors to monitor health, and EECS assistant professor Sergey Levine, who helped pioneer “deep learning” for robots, are among seven Berkeley engineers on this year's list of top innovators under 35, compiled by MIT Technology Review.

simulation of ion channels in atomic detail

Head-Gordon leads Berkeley partnership to improve scientific software

08/04/16 — A nine-university partnership headed by Virginia Tech has launched the Molecular Sciences Software Institute, an NSF-funded program to improve software for the molecular sciences. Bioengineering's Teresa Head-Gordon is the institute's lead scientist at UC Berkeley.

BIE student Matt Chen examining a spring winding machine

Blogging the Biodesign Immersion Experience

07/13/16 — An eight-week summer program for Berkeley juniors and seniors, the BIE prepares bioengineers to bridge engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs.

Fetal surgery stands to advance from new glues inspired by mussels

06/30/16 — Using lessons learned from a lowly mollusk, bioengineer Phillip Messersmith is making better glues that can be used for fetal surgery and other medical procedures.

Diagram of the effect of transforming growth factor-beta 1 on stem cell activity and aging

The bloody battle against aging

06/29/16 Berkeley Science Review — By examining the chemical makeup of young blood, bioengineers Irina Conboy and David Schaffer have discovered a drug that could turn back the age clock.

Yartsev wins Pew Scholar award for biomedical research

06/13/16 — Three young assistant professors, including Michael Yartsev of bioengineering, have received research awards from the Pew Charitable Trusts to pursue biomedical science and cancer research.

What you see is what you’ve got

05/17/16 — Bioengineering & EECS professor Steven Conolly and his lab are world leaders in development of a new nanoparticle-based medical imaging procedure, Magnetic Particle Imaging.

Participants in the annual Bioengineering Honor Society High School Competition

Early research

04/27/16 — Berkeley's Bioengineering Honor Society recently hosted 22 high school teams for an annual competition designed to make engineering and STEM more accessible.

Spinning a new market for synthetic silk

04/25/16 Foundation Capital — David Breslauer (Ph.D.'10 BioE), co-founder and and chief scientific officer at Bolt Threads, spoke at SXSW this month about what it takes to bring a technology like synthetic silk out of a lab and into a marketplace of your own creation.

Two engineering professors elected to AAAS

04/20/16 — Professors Jay Keasling (chemical and bioengineering) and Scott Shenker (EECS) are among nine UC Berkeley faculty members elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers.

Bioengineering’s Yartsev among new Searle Scholars

04/15/16 — Michael Yartsev, an assistant professor of bioengineering, was one of three young UC Berkeley faculty members appointed Searle Scholars this week. He will receive $300,000 for the next three years to support his research into the neural basis of spatial habit learning using free-flying echolocating bats.

Improving the odds for kidney transplant success

04/11/16 — A student team was recently recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative University for their low-cost kidney transplant monitor.

Clintons, CGI University at Berkeley this weekend

04/01/16 — Engineering undergrads Ankita Joshi (B.S.'16 ME) and Anh-Thu Ho (B.S.'16 BioE) are among more than 1,000 students gathering at Berkeley this weekend for the Clinton Global Initiative University, a chance to discuss pressing global issues and dig deep for creative solutions.

BioE startup Zephyrus acquired by Bio-Techne

03/23/16 GEN — Zephyrus Biosciences, a company spun out of bioengineering professor Amy Herr's lab and nurtured by SkyDeck and the Bakar Fellows program, has been acquired by Bio-Techne Corp. to commercialize its single-cell Western Blot technology.

Shilpi Mathrani working for startup Mango Materials as part of the Bio-Manufacturing to Market program.

A key to careers in biomedical and biotech fields

02/26/16 — For career-focused students, the biomedical industry can seem like an exclusive club. But UC Berkeley's Bio-Manufacturing to Market program holds the key, providing internships that connect science and engineering undergrads with biomedical and biotech startups in the East Bay.

Five questions for development engineer Rachel Gerver

01/29/16 Blum Center — Rachel Gerver (Ph.D.'14 BioE), among the first generation of UC Berkeley students in development engineering, talks about her background and her interest in getting new medical technologies to market, where they can have an impact on patients' lives.

11 body parts grown in the lab

01/26/16 LiveScience — A roundup of recent successes in cultivating human body structures ranges from fallopian tubes to 3D-printed ears to the heart muscle cells, grown in Berkeley bioengineer Jay Keasling's lab, that could speed the screening of drugs.

Bioengineer Shang Song named to 30 Under 30

01/05/16 Forbes — Bioengineering Ph.D. student Shang Song, co-founder of Rynm health, has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30. Rynm will collect and aggregate chronic disease data from patients to create meaningful pictures of community health in developing countries.

John Dueber, engineered yeast, and Will DeLoache

Dueber lab hailed for yeast engineered to brew opioids

01/05/16 Science — A breakthrough from bioengineer John Dueber's lab, led by BioE PhD William DeLoache, was a runner-up for Science magazine's 2015 breakthrough of the year. They were recognized for creating an engineered yeast that can convert sugar into the makings of opioid painkillers.

Dan Fletcher named to Foreign Policy’s 2015 Global Thinkers list

12/03/15 Foreign Policy — Bioengineering professor Daniel Fletcher has been named a top innovator of 2015 by Foreign Policy magazine for his development of the CellScope Loa, a 3D-printed plastic base that turns a cell phone into a disease-finding video microscope.